'JS Journal', January 1958

Table of content

• Contents Page
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  Page 1
  Here's Harlow
  Page 10
  Branch Jubilees
  Page 11
  J.S. Jobs
  Page 12
  My Holiday Abroad
  Page 18
  Meet the Commodity Clerks
  Page 20
  Down Memory Lane with Moby Dick
  Page 22
  Country Sections' Dance
  Page 27
  England's Good Cheer
  Page...

• Here's Harlow
  03

  With Harlow, opened on Tuesday, December 3rd, the firm has a score of selfservice branches. The event left us all a little breathless, being the third selfservice store to open in the space of eight weeks, but we managed to get...

• The New Town of Harlow
  08

  Market Square, Stone Cross, The High, Harlow. This is Shopping part of the new town's main shopping centre. Above is a C e n t r e detail from "Family Group," a handsome stone carving by Henry Moore set in Mark Hall Park. ...

• Branch Jubilees for 1958
  12

  Diamond IN 1898, sixty years ago, Marconi set up a transmitter which sent radio messages across the narrow stretch of water between Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight. The Americans were at war with the Spanish (in Cuba) and...

• J.S. Jobs
  13

  Number 10. New Series Mr. M. J. Minter. THERE are something like three thousand separate items in the stores at Blackfriars and as many more of merchandising material. Mr. Minter, our stores department manager, doesn't...

• My Holiday Abroad
  14

  Here is the prizewinning entry in the "j.S. journal " Holiday Story Competition. It is an account of a first trip abroad with a youth club party and is by Miss Jean Turner of the factory. I LOOKED at my friend sitting...

• Meet the Commodity Clerks
  20

  Mr. S. Murray (on the right) joined the f i rm in 1937 and was for a time in the Transport Office dealing with delivery orders from the wharves. He served with distinction in the Glider Pilot Regiment in which he was a...

• Down Memory Lane with Moby Dick
  22

  Leafing through old copies of J.S. journal we found this comment on one of the chapters of our island story. Counting our blessings we reproduce it whole. RUMOUR has it that the Food Ministry is about to foist Whale Meat on...

• Fourth Condiment
  23

  FOOD FACTS It's called M.S.G. for short. The letters stand for the imposing scientific name monosodium glutamate. At first taste it's slightly salty but if you put a pinch on the tip of your tongue you might think it sweet....

• Country Sections' Dance
  24

  Country Sections turn out in strength to their first dance at Blackfriars this season November 23rd The floor was fully occupied for every dance. Brentwood Harold Hill Cambridge Some of the out of town ...

• England's Good Cheer
  29

  Let us sing our own treasures, Old England's good cheer, The profits and pleasures of stout British beer. Your wine-tippling, dram sipping fellows retreat But your beer-drinking Britons can never be beat." Old Song Beer...

• 'Q' Section Dance
  36

  Happy people make ively affair The Factory turned out in force to their dance last month and our pictures show everyone having a wonderful time. The Chessmen led by J. Upchurch kept things skiffling (even the canteen...

• Cricklewood
  38

  closes this Mr and opens 1 like this Cricklewood transformation was complete on December 9th when our butchers shop from Cricklewood Lane reopened to trade as part of the branch in the Broadway. Changes include refitting...

• Turkey Flash-back
  41

  Turkeys for Christmas kept Blackfriars staff hard at work in the days just before the branches had their busy time with them. On the right is one of the several cold stores where turkeys were held. Below is part of the...

• See How They Run
  42

  Stamford Players Winter Production Put on first at Brighton where it was a great success despite production troubles, then at Toynbee Hall and at Kenton, "See How They Run" brought new faces into the group and had a good...

• J.S. Staff seen in Schools Telecast
  44

  Mr. J. H. Smith. On Friday, November 22nd, the B.B.C. Schools Television Service produced a programme on careers for young persons in the retail trade. The B.B.C. chose three different types of organisation : the Village...

• Grocery packers' night out
  45

  The staff of the Grocery Packing department at Blackfriars organised a pleasant outing on. November 16th. They had dinner at the "Horseshoe" and went on to the Dominion to see the Judy Garland show. On the right are Mrs....

• Cheerful Party at Colchester
  47

  S o u t h a m p t o n . From Southampton section comes this group picture taken at their dance in November. Colchester section held a pre-Christmas party at Nuthall's on December 7th and about a hundred happy guests got...

• "J.S. Journal" Crossword No. 4
  48

  A prize of £1 , I . 0 is offered for the first correct solution to be opened. Entries marked X-WORD should be sent to JS. journal to arrive not later than January 31st, 1958, Across 1. Three parts of a gun or all...

• Obituary
  48

  We extend our deepest sympathy to the relatives of the following colleagues who have recently died: C. H. BARNES, who, apart from a period of three years when he was in the forces, has been a member of our Cambridge staff...

• Retirements
  48

  We send our best wishes to the following colleagues who have just retired: W. H. GOULD, who was engaged originally in 1934 as a painter in the Works Department. Although he left in 1942 for a short period he was re-engaged in...

• Flash to all S.S.A Sections
  49

  When you next hold a dance, an outing or a party get your amateur photographers to work. Their pictures will find a welcome in the pages of the Journal if they are sent in soon enough. We pay half-a-guinea for every print...

• 1958 Spring Ball
  50

  at the Empress Hall 700 to Midnight on Saturday 12th April The Sainsbury Staff Association 9 7 9 9 Spring Ball Eric Winstone and his Orchestra Eric Galloway and his Band j Grand Cabaret 2 Lambrettas must be won in the...