Skip navigation Skip hierarchy
Sainsbury Archive Logo
Two videos containing unedited footage possibly filmed for a Sainsbury's Business Television programme for Sainsbury's staff (mainly store management teams). The footage relates to the move of some Sainsbury's staff from the Blackfriars head office to nearby offices at Union Street. In a Sainsbury's Business Television programme broadcast on 6 June 2000 presenter John Howard says "we'll be back in a month's time", and the date of these videos suggests that they may relate to a programme broadcast in the first few days of July 2000. However the Archive does not seem to have a recording of a programme broadcast around this time. It is unclear from the footage exactly how it was intended to be used; if it was not for a Sainsbury's Business Television programme it may perhaps have been for a video aimed at promoting the new offices to staff.

One of the videos (labelled "Stamford Street 1") includes footage of:
00:00: Interview with property director Ian Coull about move of some staff from Blackfriars head office to nearby offices at Union Street, followed by footage of empty boardroom at Blackfriars.
07:37 and 15:13: Various angles of figurines showing people, a printer and a computer in front of bright plain colour backgrounds.
09:20: Interview with unidentified man about IT (Information Technology) improvements enabled by move of some staff from Blackfriars head office to nearby offices at Union Street.
20:02: Exterior of entrance of Sainsbury's offices at Union Street[?] with staff going in and out.
20:43: Staff working in offices at Union Street[?].
25:41: Various angles of "9d23 Protector" cordless telephone in front of bright plain colour background.
26:19: Computer screen showing various parts of a webpage titled "Information Systems Division".
27:22: Computer screen showing programmes called "SMART Notebook" and "NetMeeting" (the latter is a Microsoft videoconferencing software).
29:25: Part of a printer.
29:26: Artist's impressions of interior and exterior of Sainsbury's offices at Union Street with people.
31:16: Trees outside the offices at Union Street[?].

The other video (labelled "Union Street 2") includes footage of the interior of offices under construction, exterior of offices and the River Thames.