Photographs

Bromsgrove Museum

Shops

BROMSGROVE. Co-op. "I remember one [cash carrier] in the Co-Op in Bromsgrove in the 1960s!" Angus Eickhoff on Facebook

DUDLEY. Chattin & Horton, Brierley Hill. "The new cable cash carrier system which has just been completed will be quickly appreciated by our numerous customers. By this most ingenious electric power operated cash carrier system every department of the 'House' is connected with the central cash office to which cash boxes travel at a sped of 600 yo 900 feet per minute, round corners, upstairs, downstairs, through walls, fixtures, with equal facility... This rapid cash system helps to make shopping more agreeable." Dudley Chronicle, 9 Jun. 1917, p. 2

DUDLEY. Co-op, Holly Hall. Cash carrier. Sheila Slater in posting to Facebook

DUDLEY. Foster Bros. "I remember these very well, I was the cashier in the office that received the hand written receipt and cash, then returned the receipt along with the change." Christine Simmons in posting to Facebook, 8 Aug. 2016

DUDLEY. Hawkins. Cash carrier. Linda Langford in posting to Facebook

EVESHAM. Millets. "Fascinated me when I was a small lad." Noel Bearcroft on Facebook

HALESOWEN. Co-op, Colley Gate. "Remember Colley Gate with the pulley for the cash." Carole Matthews on Facebook

HALESOWEN. Co-op, Peckingham Street. Cash carrier. Andrew Pearce in posting to Facebook

OLDBURY. Co-op. "Before the Second World War .. I was fascinated by the network of wires criss-crossing the shop and the metal containers, containing money and bills whizzing along to the cashier before returning to the counters with change and receipts." Membership matters: newsletter for Midlands Co-op members, Sept. 2006, p.6
• "Do you remember the old Co-op, when you gave them your money, they put it into a little pot and screwed that to something on a pulley - it then went winging its way across the shop to a lady sitting in a glass office - she would take out the money, put your change back into the little pot and send it back to the assistant." Auntie Em in posting to Genealogy Forum, 3/2/11

TENBURY. Gaius Smiths. "Gaius Smith's was always a stop in the morning to buy a couple of hot bread rolls from the bakery... The overhead cash system was a delight and I remember that the 'head man' ws happy to show you how it worked." Teme Valley Times, Summer 2009, p.14

Museums

BROMSGROVE. Museum, 26 Birmingham Road. One line of Dart Cash system from Harry Cooper, WILLENHALL in reconstruction of Brighton & Co. shoe shop.

indicates systems which are still there (as far as I know) though they may not be working.