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Part of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society’s Bostall Estate developed in the early 20thCentury. The society adopted the Rochdale Principles of profit-sharing in 1872. The RACS owned Bostall Farm, which they had bought in 1886 to provide vegetables for the Co-op’s shops. They later bought Suffolk Place Farm in 1899. Between 1900 and 1914 the RACS built the Bostall Estate. Once known as Tin Check Island after the Society’s dividend system, and known locally as The Co-op Estate. This street, like others on the Bostall Estate, is named after key figures and achievements and ideals of the Co-operative movement.
