The History of Our Co-op
We were first registered as a Co-op in 1975, however people had been working for years before this to set up a co-op at this point we had no houses. It all started when the "Scotch" houses pictured here were all ear marked to be demolished. Some but not all where demolished and the land they occupied has now become Hesketh Street Co-op, behind Lark Lane. Lark Lane Co-op was an off shoot of this with people desperate to have decent homes to live in, in this area there were a lot of slums and vacant landlords. |