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By the 1860s it was the country's largest co-operative society and it became the City's major retailer. Although it started as a flour miller, the society soon diversified into food and non-food retailing. By late 2006 Leeds Co-op was the oldest independent society in
Britain, one of the largest
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Society, workers at Benyon & Co's flax spinning mill raising funds through instalments to acquire some land. One of the founders was
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