Johnstone Co-operatives
The town was planned by John Houston, the landowner in 1782 in association wity the cotton mill built by Robert Corse, later known as JOhnstone Old Cotton Mill. In 1784 a second mill was opened by George Houston, followed shartly after by the Cartside mill. By 1792 there were over 1500 inhabitants with further mill built in the vicinity after this. By 1841 the town had about 7000 inhabitants and 16 mills in it's vicinity. IN 1840 a train station was opened in the town. Later on the town became known as a mnaufacturing cndtre for machine tools, iron, brass, chemicals and paper. The town continued to expand with housing estates built in the 1950s and 1960s.In 1970 the population was about 23000.
JOHNSTONE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY 1866-1962
The society was formed in 1866 by flax mill workers[1] and in Watson's 1870 directory of Paisley it is listed as the Flax Mills Workers' Co-operative Society. In 1873 engineers in Johnstone were proposing forming their own co-operative society[2]. A meeting with delegates from local co-operative societies, including Johnstone, suggested that they join Johnstone. However they decided to proceeding with amalgamation being an option if their society did not succeed. There is no mention of the engineer's society in the 1883 Co-operative Congress report suggesting that it did not succeed.
In 1898 an employee of te society was convicted of stealing tokens with a value of £15 and her mother with resetting two tokens with a value of £1 each[3]. In 1901 the society adopted the "Climax" system.
The society joined the SCWS in 1962.
| JOHNSTONE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LD | ||
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| File:JstoneCoop.H.jpg | ||
| Source | (DRR) | |
| Filename | JstoneCoop.H | |
| Value | ½d | |
| Add Desc. | ||
| Size (mm) | 22 | |
| Manufacture | Brown Plastic | |
| Notes | ||
| JOHNSTONE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD | ||
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| File:JstoneCoop.Coal.jpg | ||
| Source | (DRR) | |
| Filename | JstoneCoop.Coal | |
| Value | COAL | |
| Add Desc. | ||
| Size (mm) | 27 | |
| Manufacture | Red Plastic | |
| Notes | ||
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| Source | ||
| Filename | JstoneCoop.Coala | |
| Value | COAL | |
| Add Desc. | ||
| Size (mm) | 27 | |
| Manufacture | Cream Plastic | |
| Notes | ||
| File:JstoneCoop.Coalb.jpg | ||
| Source | (DNW N Beaton Collection) | |
| Filename | JstoneCoop.Coalb | |
| Value | COAL | |
| Add Desc. | ||
| Size (mm) | 27 | |
| Manufacture | Black Plastic | |
| Notes | ||
| File:JstoneCoop.9Coal.jpg | ||
| Source | (TCS 11) | |
| Filename | JstoneCoop.9Coal | |
| Value | 9 COAL | |
| Add Desc. | ||
| Size (mm) | 27 | |
| Manufacture | Black Plastic | |
| Notes | ||
