'JS Journal', December 1956

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 1
  A Christmas Message
  Page 2
  First Dance of the Season
  Page 8
  Trying out a Turkey
  Page 10
  J.S. Drivers' Club Social
  Page 14
  Any More for the Spacelark ?
  Page 20
  Down Memory Lane
  Page 22
  The Tales They Tell
  Page 23
  A...

• A Christmas Message
  03

  THE DIRECTORS OF J. SAINSBURY LTD J. S. J O U R N A L A MERRY CHRISTMAS A HAPPY NEW YEAR

• First Dance of the Season
  04

  The winter's season of dances opened at Blackfriars with a very gay and lively dance organised by the Stamford Players. The dance was a sellout, a good omen for the winter, and was socially a great success. Stanley...

• An old fashioned Christmas
  09

  When this picture was taken at 11 Croydon, probably over fifty years ago, the Christmas hamper was a popular line at a guinea or half a guinea. In it the customer got a turkey, a York ham, sausage meat, Stilton cheese,...

• Trying out a Turkey
  10

  A flock of turkeys on the J.S. farm at Inverquohomery, Aberdeenshire. Sampling goes bn every day at Blackfriars when new products are tested and older ones scrutinised. And at Christmas time there's always an increase in...

• J.S. Drivers' Club Social
  12

  On October 13th J.S. Drivers' Club held their annual social at Blackfriars where 220 members and guests had a very gay and lively evening. The guests were entertained by Jimmy Rogers (left) with his doves and the...

• Any more for the Spacelark?
  16

  A quick glance at the appalling prospect. WHAT with a couple of professors arguing in the public prints about whether a trip in a space ship will put five or five hundred years on you, and the Russians and Americans tossing...

• Down Memory Lane
  22

  -and round a bend 1912 "Just one of our spare time jobs" says Mr. Snow about this tricycle decorated for the Romford Cottage Hospital's collecting day in the town. With Mr. Snow (left) is Mr. G. Toe. 1910 Even...

• The Tales They Tell
  24

  There is no end to the old houses, with resounding galleries, and dismal statebedchambers, and haunted wings shut up for many years, through which we may ramble, with an agreeable creeping up our back, and encounter any...

• A Football Final in October
  25

  Skipper G. Ellis receives the Beckenham Hospital Cup from Mr. Croft, a well-known figure in South London football. In the centre, Mr. W. Marks, secretary of the competition. On October 4th the Griffin XI met Mocatra XI in...

• By Air to Blackpool
  28

  Potters Bar S.S.A. Section makes a Pioneer Flight. Above. The party at Blackbushe just before embarkation. Below. Going aboard. Staff from Potters Bar, Chelsea and Blackfriars are in this group. THE eagerly awaited trip of...

• Old English Country Kitchen Life
  32

  This article about the work of the linglish Housewife is reprinted from "The House of W'hitbreadf the Magazine of the Whitbread Group of Companies. Miss Beaumont, who is an Assistant at the Museum of English Kural1 Jfe, has...

• A Farewell Dinner to Mr. Farrow
  38

  Mr. Farrow speaking to the guests at Pimm's. The television set in the foreground was presented to him on his retirement by the managers and staff of his district. On Mr. Farrow's left is District Supervisor R. J.­Harris and...

• A Matter of Insurance
  43

  DOWN to about the middle of the nineteenth century the old rite of the Yule log was kept up in some parts of Central Germany. Thus in the valleys of the Sieg and Lahn the Yule log, a heavy block of oak, was fitted into the...

• Tennis Finals at Dulwich
  46

  Mrs. I. Mann, winner of the ladies' singles. Tennis finals of a very wet season were played off at Dulwich on September 30th when the weather relented at last. Mrs. Mann retained the ladies' singles championship for a...

• Changeover at 114 Ilford
  49

  Mr. G. Smith of 114 Iiford who has just retired, hands over the shop keys to Mr. W. E. Guest, late of Watney Street. Below. Mr. G. Smith with the Ilford staff. They are, from 1. to r. in each case, back row: Mr. Rodford,...

• Bournemouth's Lucky People
  50

  Below, prizewinners at Bournemouth's annual dance at the Grand Hotel. Lucky gent in the middle is Mr. S. Rigler of Boscombe. On the left, Secretary D. Whittall sets the drum rolling.

• Mr. A. E. Snow and Miss N. Dudman
  51

  The link between Mr. A. E. Snow and Miss N. Dudman (see J.S. JOURNAL,
  November 1956, p.13) is that both of them were managers of our branch
  at Crouch End. Miss Dudman from 1918 to 1919 and Mr. Snow from
  1921 to 1925.

• News of J.S. Staff on National Service
  51

  News of J.S. Staff on National Service
  The [allowing are notes from a few of the letters we have received recently from our
  men in the Services:—
  D. A. BROWN, Oxford. Jamaica (Army). Is hoping to spend fourteen days'
  leave...