Penrith Co-operative Society

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Penrith Co-operative Society Ltd

Type	Consumer Co-operative, Limited company
Founded	{{{foundation}}}
Headquarters	Penrith, Cumbria, UK
Industry	Supermarkets and Convienence Stores, Department Store
Website	[1]

The Penrith Co-operative Society Limited, or simply Penrith Co-op, is a small regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. The Society was formed in 1890 and today operates one department store with supermarket attached and 9 small supermarkets or convienence stores in Cumbria and County Durham.

When most other Co-ops in what is today Cumbria merged into regional groups in the 1960s and 1970s such as the Cumbrian Society (now part of the Co-operative Group) and the Greater Lancastria Society (now part of United Co-operatives) the Penrith society remained independent and has since tookover other small societies namely the Keswick Co-operative Society in 1969; the Lazonby & District Co-operative Society in 1990; the Naworth Collieries Co-operative Society in 1993 which had branches in the small North Pennine villages of Hallbankgate and Halton-Lea-Gate and finally also in the 1990s the Stanhope & Weardale Industrial Co-operative Society.

The Society is a member of the Co-operative Retail Trading Group and sell Co-op Own Brand Products and is also a corporate member of the Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd.

1 Head Office, Department Store and Penrith Supermarket
2 Branches
3 Former Branches
4 External links

[edit] Head Office, Department Store and Penrith Supermarket

19 Burrowgate, Penrith

Departments: Grocery (Supermarket), Butchery, Bakery, Health and Beauty, Electronics, Toys, Hardware, Beds, Furniture, Co-operative Bank.

[edit] Branches

Keswick Foodstore & Electrical Store, St James Court, Keswick, Cumbria

Lazonby Foodstore and Post Office, Lazonby, Cumbria

Shap Supermarket, Main Street, Shap Cumbria

Hallbankgate Foodstore and Post Office, Hallbankgate, Cumbria

Stanhope Foodstore, Off Licence and Handybank, Front Street, Stanhope, County Durham

St Johns Chapel Foodstore, Market Place, St John's Chapel, County Durham

Wearhead Foodstore, Front Street, Wearhead, County Durham

Westgate Foodstore, Front Street, Westgate, County Durham

Frosterley Foodstore & Post Office, Front Street, Frosterley, County Durham

[edit] Former Branches

Castlegate, Penrith (the society's original store)

Castletown, Penrith (closed c.1970)

Townhead, Penrith (closed c.1970)

Penrith Pharmacy, (became part of department store in 1980s and later closed)

Halton-Lea-Gate (closed 2004)

United Co-operatives have recently bought a pharmacy shop in Penrith which is now trading as Co-op Pharmacy however this shop has no connection the the Penrith Co-op's store.