'JS Journal', November 1956

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 1
  Harold Hill, New J.S. Self Service Store
  Page 13
  J . S . Veterans Find the Sun
  Page 19
  An Outing from the Warehouse, 1925
  Page 20
  Hemel Hempstead
  Page 22
  Watney Street
  Page 31
  Transatlantic Compliment
  Page 32
  Sugar Bush...

• Harold Hill, New J.S. Self Service Store
  03

  Early morning at Harold Hill sees the new branch full of customers whose families wait patiently, and sometimes less patiently, on the broad pavement of the shopping centre. FIFTEENTH self service store in the growing list of...

• J.S. Veterans Find the Sun at Heme Bay
  15

  Gathering at Blackfriars on September 4th. J.S. Veterans picked fair weather for their second outing this year. Mr. A. E. Snow chats to Miss N. Dudman. Does any reader know the link between these two well-known J.S....

• An Outing from the Warehouse 1925
  21

  Mr. J. Minter of the warehouse sends us this souvenir of a day's outing to Pulborough in 1925. From left to right the passengers are Messrs. Sibley, Guildford, Dunlevy, Standish, Fuller, Botting, Paulin, Davie, Manley, Osborne,...

• Hemel Hempstead
  22

  A general view of the new shop looking towards the main entrance. The workers are fixing expansion strips before laying the mosaic floor. The ceiling is of a new type, completely illuminated and without natural light. Hemel ...

• Watney Street
  24

  New manager and old manager. On the left Mr. N. Barrance, who has just take-over managership of Watney Street, and, right, Mr. W. Guest who is now manager at 114 Ilford. ROUND THE BRANCHES NO. 3 One ]of the firm's earliest...

• Transatlantic Compliment
  33

  To whom it may concern. MY friends have asked me to write and let you know how famous your pork sausages are. I have just returned to Canada from England after two months' holiday. While staying with my sister in Hove, Sussex,...

• Sugar Bush
  34

  Maple trees are tapped for sap in the early spring. This worker is collecting sap from cans fixed on the tree. From MissB. C. Stevens of Amersham comes this account of a visit to a " sugaring-off" in Quebec's Gatineau Hills. ...

• Mr. Farrow retires
  38

  Mr. S. F. Farrow. A recent picture taken at Watney Street. A brief account of his long and active career with the firm. WHEN Mr. S. F. Farrow retired this year from the post of Area Superintendent the firm lost from...

• B.B.C. at Stamford House
  43

  T.V. viewers who looked in at Panorama on October 15th will have seen Mr. Alan talking with Woodrow Wyatt who was asking him about resale price maintenance. In the discussion Mr. Alan said he felt that manufacturers were on a ...

• J.S. Personnel Department Move
  44

  Personnel move out and Above : 1. to r. Mr. G. W. Smith, Mr. L. C. Kearley andMr.A.J.Waller discuss a detail. Left : In background, Mr. H. Ellis and Mr. S. J. Pope. Foreground, Messrs. Abethel, Rooney, Bland ...

• Mr. Alan's sons
  49

  On October 1st Mr. Alan's sons, Mr. Simon (left) and Mr. Timothy
  (centre) and Mr. F. W. Salisbury's son Derek (right) began work
  with the firm. Mr. Simon is a Chartered Accountant and after a
  short general introduction to the...

• Staff Movements and Promotions
  49

  MOVEMENTS and PROMOTIONS
  We are pleased to record the following promotions:—
  from 13/15 Blackfriars to 819 Goodmayes
  from Lewisham to Catford Hill
  from 609 Lea Bridge Road to 560 Leytonstone
  TO MANAGER
  H. T. Standen
  H. A....

• Congratulations
  50

  CONGRATUIATIONS and best wishes to :—
  Miss R. IX Hamel, First Clerk at 24 Brighton, who has completed 25
  years' service with the Firm,

• Retirements
  50

  RETIREMENTS
  The following members of the staff have just retired:—
  MR. F. C. KNOCK retired from the active management of Fordham Fgg
  Packing Station on July 1st, 1956, Mr. Knock was engaged by Mr. Frank
  Satnsbury in 1912 and...

• Obituary
  51

  OBITUARY
  We very much regret to record the death of the following colleagues:—
  MR. P. KING, who was Leading Butcher at Bedford, engaged in 1953.
  Died on October 2nd, 1956, following a long absence. We extend our
  deepest...

• Down in Watney Street
  52

  This typical^East End market street was chosen as a likely trading area by Mr. J. J. Sainsbury when he opened one of the firm's earliest branches there in 1872. The branch has a long history of vigorous trade and carried on...