Aberdare and District Co-operative Society Limited 1871-1935

Trecynon and Cwmdare Industrial Co-operative Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mb586r (corporateBody)

Aberdare Workmen's Industrial Co-operative Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p99bmr (corporateBody)

Cwmbach-Aberaman Co-operative Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mx7gdj (corporateBody)

Aberdare and District Co-operative Society Limited

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gp367t (corporateBody)

The Aberdare and District Co-operative Society was an amalgamation of several societies in the Aberdare Valley. These societies had originally been in competition with one another. Cwmbach Co-operative Society in 1860 was the first co-operative society to be set up in Wales; Trecynon Co-operative Soceity was established in 1865 followed by the Aberdare Co-operative Society in 1869. In the late ninetenth and early twentieth centuries it was Cwmbach which was the dominant society in t...