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 aContinue reading “Coxhoe & Cornforth Co-operative Society.”
Documenting the history of the County Durham village of Coxhoe
Coxhoe Local History Group 