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2 unusual facts about The Co-Optimists


Davy Burnaby

He formed The Co-Optimists a London concert party which was very successful.

The Co-Optimists

Davy Burnaby, Betty Chester, Gilbert Childs, Laddie Cliff, Mimi Crawford, Melville Gideon, Stanley Holloway, Mary Leigh, Elsa MacFarlane, Austin Melford, Phyllis Monkman, Herbert Mundin, Elsie Randolph, Cyril Ritchard, Babs Valerie, Clifford Witley.


2010–11 Irish League Cup

The 2010–11 Irish League Cup (known as the The Co-operative Insurance League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 25th edition of Northern Ireland's secondary football knock-out cup competition.

Cottenham

Cottenham has a fairly wide range of amenities in the village, including two GP surgeries, a dental surgery, a library, a Co-operative store and pharmacy, a junior school, and Cottenham Village College which is a secondary school and adult education college.

Cowplain

There are also shops in the small precinct, including Lidl, Tucker's pharmacy and a small Co-op with a Post Office counter inside.

Glossop railway station

The other platforms and redundant station buildings were incorporated into an extension for the next door Co-op supermarket and car park, now owned by The Co-operative Group.

Marjorie Yates

During this period, she landed the female lead in the Peter Sellers film The Optimists of Nine Elms (often named The Optimists) and starred alongside David Swift in "Couples", a long running, twice weekly day time drama on UK ITV about a marriage guidance counselling service.

Marriott Edgar

His first real successes began after he had been in the cast of The Co-Optimists and worked with Stanley Holloway.

Mechanics' Institute, Manchester

The Mechanics' Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester, is notable as the building in which three significant British institutions were founded: the Trades Union Congress (TUC), The Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).

Merrybent

There were 56 glasshouses owned by the Co-operative Society; the girls grew tomatoes, controlled the rats, and were billeted in Darlington.

Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society

The most notable demutualization plan of a UK retail co-operative was the 1997 failed hostile takeover bid for the Co-operative Wholesale Society by Andrew Regan.

Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne

Through his work, Voltaire criticized religious figures and philosophers such as the optimists Alexander Pope and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, but endorsed the views of the skeptic Pierre Bayle and empiricist John Locke.

Samaritan's Purse

In 2003, The British supermarket chain, Co-op, and South Wales Fire Service both suspended their support for the project after numerous complaints about its religious connections.

Service club

Many of these service clubs were started early in the 20th century, such as Apex Clubs of Australia, Altrusa International, JCI, Sertoma, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange, Optimists, Soroptimists, KIN Canada, Zonta and Alpha Phi Omega, .

Sherwood, Nottingham

High street shops such as Boots the Chemist, Lloyds Pharmacy, Wilkinson, SPAR and The Co-operative are interspersed with charity shops, including Oxfam and Cancer Research UK and restaurants, including those serving Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Italian cuisine.

The Angel, Islington

From 1921 to 1959 the building was used as a Lyons Corner House and it is now a branch of the Co-operative Bank, with ORC International, a market research agency, occupying the floors above the bank.

The Co-operative brand

The Co-operative Movement called on the Prime Minister to establish a Co-operative Commission to consider ways to ensure the survival of the co-operative business model into the 21st century.

The brand was trialled between 2005 and 2007, at several outlets of the Co-operative Group, Scotmid, United Co-operatives and Midcounties Co-operative.

The Happiness Hypothesis

Though there is a bias towards negativity, some people are optimists and others pessimists.

The Optimists

The Optimists of Nine Elms, a British film also known as The Optimists

Turriff

The main supermarket chains are Tesco (whose premises have previously been occupied by Presto, Gateway and Somerfield) and Co-op Food and there are numerous specialist shops including two dispensing pharmacies.

Westhill, Aberdeenshire

Many supermarkets have opened in Westhill, including Tesco, Costco, Aldi, The Cooperative and Marks and Spencer.


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