BARNSLEY British Co-operative Society archives are to be digitalised and displayed thanks to a £43,000 grant.
The money from the Heritage Lottery Fund will go towards a project called 'Service Please!' and those behind it want to collect people's stories and photos of their own Co-op shops.
The Barnsley British Co-operative Society had a shop in every village in the 1900s and many people remember their Co-op divi share number and have fond memories of their trips to and jobs at Co-op shops.
The archive will be catalogued and digitalised, enabling the collections to be accessible to the public for the first time.
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