Southend: Co-op bakery, Sutton Road
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Southend: Co-op bakery, Sutton Road
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 3 Aug 2008
I can find absolutely nothing on the internet about this building, which is on Sutton Road at its junction with Guildford Road. The inscription in the massive stone carving states that the building was opened as a bakery in 1921 by the London Co-operative Society Limited to the designs of H E Tufton. The Co-op evidently still operate out of the building as evidenced by the store logo at the far right hand end, but whether the bakery still functions is unknown to me. In complete contrast to the massiveness of the building the stone carving also has a beehive with intricately carved bees buzzing around. Again I do not know if this was a former logo of the Co-operative Society or a symbol of the building being a bakery.
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