General Chat

Please tell me that there are lots and lots of your who remember your 'divvy' number from the Co-op they used to rip a piece of paper off as the receipt for you - please tell me someone out there remembers! Gillian x

I remember the Co-op but.... sorry. You're on your own with this one Gillian! ;-) Jacky :-))

No its no true - must be before your time - o blast!! x

Now someone remembers their Mom talking about them - being ganged up on here help me please someone young like me!

Yep ,my mum's number was 1443216,but thats50 years ago ,showing your age eh?Fred.ptfg.7a&g&s.

Dave you are a gent - 284687 was mine - well ours of course you would not lie to me would you just to make me feel better - Somewhere in the midlands area is a make believe village of days before and sash windows and in he shop the lady said everyone remembered their co-op number - must have gone a a old age pensioners day visit !

Yes I do remember the co-op divvy! Up until about 10 years ago I could also remember my Nan's number (our local co-op didn't have them, much to Mum's disgust!). Try as I might, I can't remember the number now though :o( I'll remember it in the middle of the night - that's when my memory seems to work best! LOL Sue xx

I just about remember it, my mom used to go to our local co-op and she used to have her divvy number at the ready, cant remember what it was all about though. Bev

fred and Dave - free weekend in Alassio for being gents will expect you on Friday o.k. of course we remember our divvy number because we are still smart cookies well old smart cookes.!

Why do we get replies ' remember my Mom saying the number - could it be 'they' are younger!!

Dave can see that you are a genius - cupboard love! Why do you put brackets around the dots if they are not to be put in is is just to emphasise and up to date can still not find how to see the photograpsh os London meet - have been kindly told the address but its not a www. etc so cannot understand how to do it - Thinks' I was only answering her chat about divvys how did I get involved in all this'!!

No Eliabeth it was not a long time ago - just a look over your shoulder! Thats right can remember now curtaining and bedding gifts - had forgotten the what the exchange could have been for Gillian

Dave am only typing this lightly as yesterday Rome was awash the rain was torrential - but it will have dried up by the time your wife and daughter go - so much to see and a lovely city presume you have an audiance with the Pope?

Gillian, your not the only one. I have just turned 50, Mum 75 this year. She was so shocked when I told her I could still remember her Divvi Number. I actually use it as a password on certain programs. I remember when little, going with mum and queing at the back entrance to the Co-op, (green metal stairs, which was the actual Fire Escape) to collect her payout. Being from a large family, pennies were always short, so it was an exciting time. Jenny.

H i Gillian I used to work in the offices of the london cooperative scy. one of the first jobs as an office junior at 15 was counting all the coop divvy vouchers,sooo boring,first weeks salary was £5 pounds 12 shillings . Dont remember mums divvy number though:)))

I worked in the Coop when I left school my pay was 2 pounds 4/6 aweek 1 pound to my mum for my keep. my divvy number was 88987, I also knew the numbers of a lot of the customers. ANNABEL

hello, I had two numbers to remember, one for my Mum and one for my grandmother. The little tear-off slips were carefully kept. I sometimes think that the numbers must have been carved into our memories. I suppose children had far fewer facts to remember then - few had telephones at home, or cars, and there were no such things as Credit Card Numbers and Passwords or web addresses. Did the wartime adults have Identity Cards with numbers? Service people certainly remember their 'Name Rank and Number'. I think the older people learned their NHS nos when that came in. Perhaps for some,some of the numbers have been partially recycled into Pin Nos. Hiolary

Yes Iremember having a Dividend No,but I could not tell you what it is.I am still a member of the Co-op.We used to have a Co-op Bank in Weymouth too,but sadly it shut a few years ago now.I found my Mums pass book with money in after she died,but although I sent it away to be made up,I can't get them to honour it. I always shop in Yarmouth Co-op when I-m on that coast,they have some lovely cut glass tumblers etc there.I always but spares for when I break one.-Rose

My Mums: - 26388 My Gran's: - 1086 if I remember correctly! The things you have stored in your head!! LOL Magsxx

Gillian, Thanks for bringing back happy? memories. Now here,s a thing, can remember the one I had to use during the war - my mothers - 29458, but for the life of me can,t remember my own from 1960. Remember having to queue up for the payment on divvi day. (1 and 2pence in the pound). Don,t know whether you had them, but our co-op used to put your money in a metal holder and whizz it across the ceiling - your change coming back the same way. Happy days