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Cooke's Old World Shop Limited fonds
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1880-1977 (Creation)
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- Cooke's Old World Shop Limited
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10 m of textual records, 14 architectural drawings
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Administrative history
Cooke's Old World Shop Limited, formerly known as Cooke's Fine Foods, began as an Italian warehouse, operated in 1865 by William Begg and Co. It was a wholesale and retail grocery, wine and spirit business. J.S. Henderson took over and ran the business from the 1880's to 1924 when the store was purchased by Hugh Cooke, a longtime employee. During the 1930's, Cooke also operated a Red and White Store next door. A fire broke out in the store in 1925 but the building was fortunately saved. During World War II thousands of specialty baskets were shipped overseas. In 1966 John Cooke took over the operation of the store and wine and beermaking supplies were added to numerous specialty foodstuffs and fresh ground coffee.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of general records; correspondence, including requests for various foodstuffs to be sent overseas (mostly to England) following the end of the Second World War; customer order books; ledgers; architectural drawings; all of which detail the operations of a general and specialty grocery store from 1881 to the mid-1970's.
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Donated by Susan Cooke and John Cooke - 1987 and 1991
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- English
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1004.5
5022
F3 D7
F5 A5
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Restrictions on access
Access to records dated after 1966 require permission of the donors.
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Public domain
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Further accruals are expected