History
See also: History of the cooperative movementThe consumer co-operative movement has its roots in the early part of the nineteenth century and the principles of self-help and social equity that developed during the Victorian era. The first successful retail co-operative was established in 1844 by the Rochdale Pioneers.
The Society was founded as Peterborough Equitable Industrial Co-operative Society in 1876. It later absorbed the Oundle (est.1866), St. Neots (est.1882), Huntingdon (est.1866), Wisbech (est.1886), King's Lynn (est.1888), St. Ives (est.1889) and Chatteris (est.1900) societies, becoming the Peterborough and District Co-operative Society, then Greater Peterborough Regional Co-operative Society.
Stanley Tiffany, a director of the Society, was elected Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for the Peterborough division of Northamptonshire at the 1945 general election.
The Anglia (formerly Waveney) Co-operative Society, which transferred engagements to the Peterborough Society in 1987, had earlier absorbed the Beccles (est.1879), Diss (est.1898) and Lowestoft (est.1890) societies.
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