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The Cooperative Canning Factory - Lowestoft

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The Cooperative Canning Factory - Lowestoft

Post by boatbuilder » Tue Jan 12, 2016 12:56 pm

Some of you may recall a few years ago on the other site that I posted a topic about the Coop Canning factory and advised that I had a PDF document I created from a 32 page booklet giving details of some of its early history and sent a copy of this to a number of those who requested it.

I am now able to make this document available to anyone who wishes to download the 7.4 MB PDF directly from this website.

Here is the link which I have set up to enable this:

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Re: The Cooperative Canning Factory - Lowestoft

Post by MEG » Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:21 pm

My uncle worked there.Years ago at Tuesday Morning Mall in OK City I found a magnet with Co-op Lowestoft on it ,advertising Willowvale Cheese in the round packs with triangular slices!

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Re: The Cooperative Canning Factory - Lowestoft

Post by Mel » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:32 pm

boatbuilder wrote:Some of you may recall a few years ago on the other site that I posted a topic about the Coop Canning factory and advised that I had a PDF document I created from a 32 page booklet giving details of some of its early history
An interesting bit of local history Boatbuilder.

Before the Co-op took over the factory it was owned by the Maconochie Brothers from Lowestoft. James Maconochie is buried in Lowestoft Cemetery. Their canned food didn't always go down well with troops in the First World War, read more Here

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Re: The Cooperative Canning Factory - Lowestoft

Post by Dave » Sat Nov 12, 2016 4:18 pm

I found a couple of videos that may be of interest on this subject.

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/853

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/609

The site is the East Anglian Film Archive and there are many other videos to watch.
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Re: The Cooperative Canning Factory - Lowestoft

Post by boatbuilder » Sat Nov 12, 2016 4:58 pm

Thanks for posting those Dave.

Although long before my time there, there were a few things that hadn't changed much in the canning side from the 1961 film to when I was there from 1989 onward.

The cheese triangle portion machines brought back memories from the 1970's when I was working for Kraft in Liverpool and I used to buy the parts for similar machines from the Swiss company 'Kustner' that manufactured them. Those were the days of 10 Swiss Francs to £1, now you only get about 1.25 for £1. :D

Interesting to note also, the absence of protective footwear on the factory operatives in those days.
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Re: The Cooperative Canning Factory - Lowestoft

Post by Dave » Sat Nov 12, 2016 5:59 pm

If you type 'Lowestoft' into the search box, boatbuilder, there are three pages of videos.
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