Mass-Observation Archive

Worktown Collection (1937-40)

Box 30: Shopping, budgets, Chamber of Trade, Co-op

30/A Shopping and household budgets

Paper folder containing

Letter from HH to THH, ts, 1p, WLW, about Bessie Hilton, mill worker

"Miss Bessie Hilton 180 Leigh Avenue", ms, 1p, 22.12.[?], interview

"Bessie Hilton", ms, 4pp, 24.12.[?], JW, conversation with neighbours about Bessie Hilton

"Facts about Miss Hilton, Bessie", ms, 1p, 3.1.[?], WLW

Untitled document, ms, 9pp, 27.3.[?], overheard conversation

"Conversation with man in Bar at the Grand", ms, 1p, 23.3.[?], WH

Untitled document, ms, 3pp, 6.4.[?], THH, reference to clothing clubs and Co-op, lacks p1

Untitled document, ms, 1p, 17.4.[?], THH, reference to applicants for lavatory attendant jobs

Untitled document, ms, 1p, 4.5.[?], HS, about the "Scotchman" and its origins in the factory system

Untitled document, ms, 1p, 13.5.[?], WH, telling a young woman she's won a competition, [incomplete]

"Mrs Banks on wages etc", ms, 2pp, 6.6.38, WH

"Visit to Joe Darbyshire's Home talk re the difficulties of managing", ts/ms, 3pp, 6.6.38, WH

Paper folder containing observer accounts

"Investigation of Shoe-Shops in the centre of Bolton", ts, 3pp, 8.37, JHM

"Vacuum Cleaners and Electricity Bolton Corporation Electric Showrooms", ms, 5pp, 8.4.37, JLW

"Barber", ms, 3pp, 9.4.[37], JW

"Co-op Window in Oxford St", ms, 3pp, 10.4.[37], THH

"Pioneer Carpet Co", ms, 3pp, 12.4.37, JW

"The Raincoat Shop", ms, 1p, 17.4.[37], [JW]

"Corsets", ts, 1p, 19.5.[37], [?B], window display, conversation with shop assistant

"Shop Tour Aspall area with Jack Steele", ms, 8.6.[37], THH

Untitled document, ts, 7pp, 8.6.[37], THH, visit to various shops in [Ince], lacks pp1-3

"Suits, shops in Bolton", ms, 6pp, 31.12.38, LT

Letter from F.D. Morrell, Unilever House, to THH, ts, 24.6.37, enclosing details of sales of soap powers and soap

Misc, ts, 4pp

30/B Chamber of Trade and traders

"Bolton Chamber of Trade, ms, 9pp, BR, list of names and addresses of traders, (no official source cited)

"Retail Market Ashburner Street", ms, 3pp, BR, list of names and addresses of traders (no official source cited)

"Market Hall Knowsley Street", ms, 1p, BR, list of names and addresses of traders (no official source cited)

"Bolton Chamber of Trade Members", ms, 1p, [BR], list of names, addresses and trades of members

"1931 Census", ms, 3pp, list of number of retailers - men and women, (no source cited)

"Table II Increase in numbers of shops", ts, 1p, list, (no source cited)

30/C Bolton Co-operative Society

Booklet: "The C.W.S. of Today"

Booklet: "The Co-operative Guildman, Official Organ of the N.C.M.G"

Booklets (10), "The Great and Little Bolton Co-operative Society", Report and Balance Sheet for March and September 1929-1937

Paper folder "Co-operative Material" containing

"Special Meeting of Co-op", ms, 11pp, 6.12.[?], WH, account of the meeting

"Bolton Co-operative Society Clothing Club (20 weeks) commencing 7.11.36", ms, 3pp, list of members, shares owned and purchases made

"Loftus", ts, 7pp, 25.1.39, interview with Loftus, a journalist for the Co-op press

Misc, ms, 7pp

"The Co-operative Movement", ts, 7pp, about the effect of the depression on the Bolton Co-operative Society

Leaflet "Facts about Prices", No 3, issued by the Economic League

Leaflet "To All Armament Workers", No 8, issued by the Economic League

Misc, ts, 3pp

30/D Follows, mainly in Woolworths

Index cards (31), ms, March-June 1939, follows

"Follows", ts/ms, 57pp, 18.11.38-1.7.39, GT/Ri/GW/SS/CM/GBE

Paper folder "Shop Follow Analysis" containing

Untitled document, ms, 4pp, chart

30/E Follows

Paper folder containing

Cards (2), ms, 27.1.39, follows in Whittakers shop

"Whittakers Shirt Competition", ms, 1p, 26.5.[37], visits to the shop, competion entry form attached

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 22.6.[?], follow in Whittakers

"Follow in Horrocks Warehouse", ts, 1p, 22.6.39

"Influence of children on shopping", ts, 1p, 24.6.[?], follow in Marks and Spencer

"Co-op Follows", ts, 1p, 29.6.39

"Co-op Follows", ts, 1p, 30.6.39

Index cards (7), ms, follows in Marks and Spencer

"Follows", ms/ts, 44pp, 19.11.38-24.6.39, GBE/GT/GW/Ri/SS/CM, Marks and Spencer

"Long Follows", ts, 96pp, 1.6.39-24.6.39, SS/CM/Ri/GT

"Shopping Follow", ms, 22pp, 7.9.42-10.9.42, CG

"Shopping Follow", ms, 5pp, 10.9.42, DH

"Shopping Follow", ts, 1p, 10.9.42, CG

"Shopping Follow", ts, 1p, 11.9.42, CG

Untitled document, ms, 1p, chart