Coxhoe & Cornforth Co-operative Society.
How it began. In 1870 a group of men who worked at Tursdale Coke Ovens had heard about a Co-operation in Crook. They all met at the Brickyard at Thinford Lane, then known as “Snowden’s Cabin” where they decided to canvas the district for financial support to start a store of their own. Initially about a…
Thomas Talbot & Sons
(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) It is over a century since the Talbot family business was formed in Coxhoe and it still survives today. Thomas Talbot Senior is recorded in the 1911 Census as living in Prospect Place, Coxhoe with wife Mary Jane and family William, Elizabeth, Jane and Matthew. Aged 15, son William’s recorded…
Wilsons Hardware & Fancy Goods
(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) A well established and much loved business on Church Street, Coxhoe , Wilsons Hardware & Fancy Goods closed its doors for the final time in the early 1980’s. Trading for over 60 years Wilsons was one of those stores where you could find a wide variety of goods from haberdashery…
The Post Office
(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) The first messengers in Britain were probably the Romans. Their roads were well used later by delivery people on horseback. As they became more popular, routes were established and coaching inns were used to rest horses and break up the journey. The Clarence Villa (Kicking Cuddy) was a coaching inn…
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