Looking Back: Bridge Street was home to impressive Co-op store

This photo from the archives offers an unusual view along Bridge Street in Bolton.

Taken in January 1983, you can see the Market Hall on the left with the public toilets accessed off Bridge Street.

On the right you can see the Co-op store, one of Bolton’s larger retail outlets at the time and one which is much missed by many shoppers.

The new-look Co-op opened in 1959 and the supermarket which cost £80,000 was, at the time, was the most modern in the North West.

As well as the supermarket, the Co-op also offered a wide range of services including a hairdressers, dentists, café and you could even buy your coal for the fire!

Source

I worked as student there.

Used to have to work in a white coat with a sky blue Co-op label on it.



I quite fancied Rita who worked there and was similar age to me but I ended up getting off with Christine who worked at the big Co-op facing the Town Hall!

Happy Days!

I've had to wear a white coat in some of my Pharmacy jobs, just waiting for the men in white coats to cart me off to the nut house in the very near future 

Norpig wrote:I've had to wear a white coat in some of my Pharmacy jobs, just waiting for the men in white coats to cart me off to the nut house in the very near future 

You might get the room next to mine. Happy days.
Wednesday is treacle pudding day.