Co-op Fire Brigade
 
  
 
 
   

This brass one piece button is from the uniform of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Fire Brigade.
The motto is "Labour and Wait".
The Co-operative Society was started in Rochdale, Lancashire in the 1880's.
Large companies used to have thier own fire brigades in the days before the county fire brigades.

   
 
 
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