Time travel on St. Catherine's Grove and Hartley Street, Lincoln, to learn about Co-op housebuilders

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This time shift video is another that has taught me something I never knew about my hometown. Specifically that the Lincolnshire Co-operative Society was once a major housebuilder.

The first time shift in this double is St. Catherine's Grove, the second is Hartley Street.

The following information comes from an article by Alan Middleton in the May 2019 edition of Lincolnshire Life;

In the mid 1860s a few members of the Lincoln Co-operative Society campaigned to start a house building department and even made enquiries about the operations of a building society. The proposal, however, was rejected; the majority of members concluding that they had insufficient funds to embark on such a venture. But the idea of an additional society for house building did not go away and the Lincoln Permanent Co-operative Building and Land Society Ltd was formed in 1872 as a separate organisation. Their first adventure into house building was a block of 20 dwellings in Chelmsford Street and these were offered to members, on mortgage, at £165 each. The offer was significantly oversubscribed and the houses had to be allocated by ballot. Further substantial development then took place in the Monks Road area, including Hartley Street and McInnes Street, named after Lincoln Co-op leaders, also Coulson Road and the Boultham estate, St Catherines Grove, Newark Road, Hewson Road and the west end and Scorer Street.

If you want to know more the full article is here https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/heritage/lincoln-co-op-builders/

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