I go past that all the time but I had actually forgotten what it used to house. Part of me thought it was a Superpound for some reason.WillPS wrote:While I'm thinking of it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/co-operativestores/
This seems to be one bloke who rather likes Co-Operative stuff. A good number of the stores are pictured, sometimes in interesting states (this ex-Sainsbury's at Jacksons is just one example).
Lost a good few hours procrastinating through this stuff!
This beast (unfortunately now closed) is my favourite: http://www.flickr.com/photos/co-operati ... 272888808/
I found a piece about it in the library once, where the bloke in charge of GNCS went on record saying he expected all GNCS Supermarkets to resemble this one by the year 2000. Oh dear.
The building looks fantastic though.