Information on Coopers store in Scotland

[harrywrag]

hi, little bit info on coopers they were founded in howard street glasgow in 1871 expanded had branches over the country , were taken over by fine fare 1955 but were still trading as coopers in early 1970s

[Humphpaul]

I can remember buying a haggis for a friend from Coopers Glasgow about 1955/6 but being from Liverpool I knew that store very well. It was the class grocers then and a  nice restaurant upstairs. My mother worked close by at Escott,s Hats during the war and got our groceries delivered each Saturday. We had to put a list in at the office upstairs by Tuesday each week. The list always started off with 'butter, marg, lard, bacon, cheese, eggs, sugar tea' which were all on the ration of course.

The delivery came round on Saturday on the Coopers van and in a hamper which had to be emptied in the kitchen and returned to the driver poste haste. One week our driver said he would not be doing it any more as he had won £15,000 on the pools or sweepstake. Never saw him again!

We were still getting deliveries up to about 1956 from a little branch ( one of many) on Tuebrook opposite the Carlton cinema. Alan Williams

[susan paton]

My Mum worked in Coopers when she left school before Mum and Dad were married I think it was in Dunfermline as we were in Limekilns.That would have been at the end of the 40s early 1950s.The ladies that ran it were the Miss Browns.Victoria and Violet.Mum refered to it as a high class grocers and she told of weighing the suger and buter and how hard it was to cut the large blocks of cheese with the wire.

[Hannahville]

If I remember correctly there was a Coopers Store on English Street Dumfries in the 1960's? The property was at the junction with Queen  Street and is now a cafe- the Pancake Place

[jazzyfinlay]

Coopers shop was on English Street in Dumfries. I used to go in their back door and loading dock which were on Queen Stret. My grandparents had a bakers shop right across the way on Queen Street. One of the ladies who worked in Coopers was Helen Thomson/Edgar