'JS Journal', May 1960

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• Contents Page
  02

  SERIES NO. A7I
  Page 2
  What Goes U p . . .
  Page 7
  Goodbye Piccadilly
  Page 10
  Six a Side
  Page 13
  Upminster's New Branch
  Page 18
  "Query" Department
  Page 20
  Bringing up Dahlias
  Page 22
  Social Events
  Page 26
  Staff News

• What Goes Up . . .
  02

  So many changes are taking place around
  Stamford Street that we
  asked photographer
  Brian Shuel to make
  some comments
  with his camera tke •fvrttvre- Romeo and Juliet stroll by London's'Festival
  Hall where, once, horse-drawn...

• Goodbye Piccadilly ?
  07

  Goodbye
  Piccadilly ?
  An introduction to some
  aspects of the
  Town Planning Regulations
  by Mr. Timothy Sainsbury
  Piccadilly Circus is often in the news but recently
  attention has been drawn there for a very...

• Six a Side
  10

  SIX-A-SIDE
  A record entry and plenty of support made good football to watch at
  Dulwich on Good Friday when Warehouse 1st team won
  the six-a-side competition for the fourth year in succession.
  In the five rounds of the...

• Upminster's New Branch
  13

  UPMINSTER
  MAKES
  J.S. self-service branches number 28 with the opening
  on April 5th of a new one at Upminster in
  Essex. It completes a long terrace of shops in
  Corbetts Tey Road, and is a long narrow shop
  of about 2,800...

• "Query" Department
  18

  Communications Second in aseriesto introduce
  our readers to J.S. people
  "attheotherend of thephone."
  Query Section of the Branch Stock Office spends its time
  straightening out discrepancies. When the firm
  sends goods to...

• Bringing up Dahlias
  20

  Mr. H. G. Brown of Head Office
  writes about
  Bringing: up
  Dahlias
  In the February J. S. Journal I recommended certain
  varieties of the dahlia family which I considered
  outstanding for beauty of colour, form and
  freedom of...

• Social Events
  22

  Ladies' night at the 71 Club
  The 44 members of the
  71 Club who met for dinner
  at Pimms on April 2nd
  represented 1,139 years of
  service with J. S. It was
  one of their best nights out
  with Mr. Simon Sainsbury
  as guest of...

• Mr. R. Drury
  25

  Retirement
  Mr. R. DRURY
  Mr. R. Drury has for many years been
  a familiar and popular figure in the firm.
  J.S. Journal readers will remember this
  picture of him once used on our cover.
  Mr. W. M. Justice writes:
  Mr. Drury, who...

• Mrs. Edney
  25

  for Mrs. Edney
  At Primrose Croft in Cambridge on March 23rd
  Mrs. D. E. Edney, who was one of the firm's housekeepers
  for 22 years, celebrated her 90th birthday.
  Mr. Wallace Cole, Mayor of Cambridge, came
  specially to drink...

• Congratulations to
  26

  Congratulations to
  Miss Edna Stevens, of Southall branch, and Mr. John
  Tolmie, of Richmond branch, who were married on
  March 19th. Miss J. M. Ince and Mr. R. A. Marsh, both of
  Haverhill, who were married on March 23rd....

• Promotions and Transfers
  26

  Promotions and Transfers
  To Training: Centre as Senior Fresh
  Meat Instructor
  A. TAMLYN
  To Meat Supervisor
  R. JACKSON
  B. JOHNSON
  Manager
  R. GUINEY
  W. T. G. HANLON
  from Meat Supervisor
  Mr. A. Tamlyn
  from Southgate
  from...

• Obituary
  27

  Obituary
  We regret to record the deaths of the following colleagues and
  send our deepest sympathy to all relatives.
  G. C o u l t e r , who was engaged as a warehouseman
  in October 1955. He was promoted to checker in...

• Trams over the River
  27

  Trams over the River
  J.S. Veterans write about the trams which first crossed
  Blackfriars Bridge in 190J. A picture of the first tram
  was published in J.S. Journal for February.
  Mr. W. C. Gurr writes:
  At the time no one could...