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  • Contents Page 02

    Page 1
    Guildford
    Page 9
    J.S. Jobs
    Page 10
    Ready to Cook
    Page 14
    Fete Day
    Page 26
    Meet Your Contact Clerks
    Page 28
    Problem
    Page 29
    Frozen Cargo
    Page 36
    Escape to Freedom
    Page 44
    J.S. Staff News
    OUR COVER PICTURE ...

  • Guildford 03

    Our Guildford branch is in the High Street about fifty yards above Tungate and the seventeenth-century Guildhall with its famous clock. ROUND THE BRANCHES OUR Guildford branch is one of the most handsome of our older ...

  • J.S. Jobs 11

    Number 7. New Series FOOD worth £1,289,479,832 was imported into the United Kingdom last year and J.S. took their share of this total in meats, butter, cheese, canned fruits and many other products (including ...

  • Ready to Cook 12

    Demand for ready - to-cook poultry is growing steadily in Britain. Mr. W. M. Justice, Manager of J.S. Meat and Poultry Dept., reviews new developments which are bringing a newlook into poultry trading. To be concerned in...

  • Fete Day 16

    AUGUST 5th Out of a beautiful summer we picked the perfect day for the S.S.A. fete at uulwich. I he grass seemed greener, the girls prettier, the children livelier, the beer cooler, the chips tastier, the barbecue tenderer...

  • Meet Your Contact Clerks 28

    A J.S. Journal Feature to help you know to whom you are talking when you make a call to the Sales office Contact clerk for District 5 is Miss Jennifer Lever (right) who has been with the firm for five years. She grew up in...

  • Problem ? 30

    THE other day a man in California had a problem. He controlled a firm that preserved spicy foods and his problem was that the large quantities of garlic and onions that he used created what is called a " neighbourhood problem."...

  • Frozen Cargo 31

    Seventy-five years ago the first cargo of frozen meat from New Zealand was unloaded in Great Britain. It was the beginning of the vigorous trade in frozen food which has since grown up between the two countries. IN 1871...

  • Crawley will follow Paddington 37

    New J.S. Self Service Shop to be in New Town Building in progress on our new self-service shop at Crawley in Sussex. Crawley is one of the new towns outside London which have been created in an effort to relieve...

  • Escape to Freedom 38

    A J.S. employee describes his escape from Poland after the last war IT is now some 900 years since these islands were overrun by an invading army, and although the danger of invasion became very real in 1940, once again it...

  • Building the new warehouse at Rennie Street 45

    Our picture shows progress on the new warehouse seen from the Factory looking north-east towards St. Paul's. On the left in the middle distance is Stamford House and on the horizon beyond it can be seen the domed tower of the...

  • Brides and Grooms 46

    Brides and Grooms
    Above : Mr. J. Gibson and Mrs. C.
    Rankine both of the Factory on July
    5th. 1957.
    Top left : Mr. L. B. Hessey of Purley
    and Miss J. M. Gennery of Beckenham
    on June 15th, 1957.
    Not June I4th as announced in...

  • Marriages 47

    Marriages (BETWEEN MEMBERS OF J.S. STAFF)
    Very best wishes for their future happiness to :—
    Miss B. MORRIS and Mr. B. CHAPMAN, both of Luton, who were married
    on August 10th, 1957.
    Miss M. L. WELCH of 154 Walthamstow and Mr....

  • Obituary 47

    Obituary
    We very much regret to record the death of the following
    colleague and we send our deepest sympathy to his wife:—
    H. E. COUSINS who joined the firm in July 1931 as a clerk
    in the Transport Office. Apart from the...

  • Bournemouth's Outing 48

    Bournemouth's Outing
    July 7th saw Bournemouth's S.S.A. Section heading
    for the Isle of Wight. They took the ferry to
    Yarmouth where the picture above was taken
    just before they set out on their tour of the
    island, where they...

  • News of J.S. Staff on National Service 48

    News of J.S. Staff on National Service
    The following notes are based on letters we have received from our National
    Servicemen.
    M. W. MUMFORD, Romford. Iraq (R.A.F.). At the moment he is finding
    conditions far too hot and far...

  • Aveley Section Dance 49

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  • The Guildhall, Guildford 50

    This seventeenth-century building in the town's High Street is adorned with the Aylward Clock. By tradition it was a gift from John Aylward a clock-maker who wished to set up business in the town and overcame the objections of...