Wigan Album

It is would seem to be a branch of the Co-op from the C.W.S, wording at the top of the window and a further reference to 'goods from our own factories' on the right hand side of the doorway.

The English Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS)

It's a Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) store and it looks to be a celebration with the bunting in the window, I've no idea of the location. though I can't recall there being any CWS stores in Wigan, though there was CWS stores in Ashton and Golborne, maybe others can recall them being in other areas before Wigan & District Equitable Co-operative Society took over them.

On the web: the Wigan Co-operative Stores seems to be a failed prelude to the Wigan Co-operative Society which was established in 1889, and the first record of Wigan & District Equitable Co-operative Society is in 1928.

Brian: It looks like a cooperative store (C W S) the notice also states that the goods were from there own Factory's, the c w s did at one time make a lot of produce.
It also may be a store that did have a barbershop on the premises, because that might be a barbers pole in the window.
Location could be Pemberton, but c w s must have had stores in other areas of Wigan.

At one time the C.W,S had Factories throughout the country,employing thousands of people. A local one was C.W.S. Glass Works Platt Bridge where I worked for several years.

Poolstock had a co-op in the 50s/60s in Pool St; at the corner of Corperation St

The Co-op that used to be across from the Half Way House at Pemberton would be a good possibility if the photographer was from Spring Bank. The former Co-op at Newtown (now the Hospice Shop) is also a possibility.

There was a Co-op branch in Catherine Street, Scholes, an image of which appeared on Wigan World, Album, Places. Same style of doorway. Maybe.

A work of art to 'dress' the windows in those days...

The Newtown Co-op mentioned by AW is a dstinct possibility. The building (now a Hospice Shop as previously stated) still has a centrally located door, and it also has a series of air bricks under the window, where the cellar grating can be seen in this photo.

It is probably the shop on Ormskirk road which is now a plumbers merchant which was opposite the old St. Cuthberts infant school there was a co-op butchers next door to it and on the opposite corner was the old Carlton cinema.

This photo is from around 1925, part of the 'Co-operative Cocoa and Chocolate Campaign' "in progress in many of the northern counties, with a view of stimulating interest in the productions of the English and Scottish C.W.S. Cocoa and Chocolate Works at Luton". In the March 1925 issue of 'The Producer' there is a picture of a similar CWS 'cocoa window' display at their Laisterdyke branch, and in the October issue there is another of a model 'Lutona' shop window.

I remember the central Coop in Platt Bridge had a grocery dept, drapery dept, a shoe repair dept and milk delivery dept round the back.