Used by the Coolstores Committee and given to Norwood High School by the Management Committee. R. Mullin persuaded the high school committee to give them to the Ringwood Historical Research Group.
Red covered book with suede spine and corners. Minute book from first to 80th committee meetings of the Ringwood Co-operative Coolstores Society Ltd - from 16-Dec-1915 to 10-Jan-1922.
Historical Summary to be added
Parent Record for Archive collection of photographs, documents, minutes etc relating to the Ringwood Co-operative Coolstores Society Ltd. up to it's closure in 1960.
A large brown Kalamazoo binder containing Minutes of the society from 1934 through to its winding up in 1960. The binder is opened with a key to insert or remove pages. The original key is lost, but RDHS Archivist Nevelle Burns made up two replacement keysm to allow the Pages to be removed for scanning. Once scanned the pages were reinsrted and the key used to close and lock the binder. The scanned minutes are in VC items 11221 to 11234 (2 years per item). VC Item 11235 is the Auction Catalogue associated with the closure of the Coolstores in 1960. This minute book was Item 24 at an Auction and was donated to RDHS (donor unknown)
Label on cover reading "Committee Meetings - 201 -374 1934-1960. Ringwood Co-operative Cool Stores Society Ltd"
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