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    C139
    Page 2
    News and Developments
    Page 14
    Made for Christmas
    Page 18
    The Farmer's Wife is Plucking the Geese
    Page 20
    Nuts-in-Shell
    Page 21
    Managers' Conference 1968
    Page 24
    Parties In and Out of town
    Page 30
    White and...

  • News and Developments 02

    News and Developments
    New Supermarket for
    New Basingstoke Basingstoke's new supermarket
    opened on November 12, the same
    day as the Mayor opened the
    shopping precinct. This supermarket
    is one of our large ones with...

  • Made for Christmas 14

    Made for Christmas Basic ingredient in peppermint
    creams is fondant made by heating
    glucose and sugar until they're
    liquid, cooling to turn this into a
    sticky, transparent substance, then
    beating until it becomes the...

  • The Farmer's Wife is Plucking the Geese 18

    A Christmas Tale by
    W. J . Bridgeman Dusty Millar kicked down the starter of his old
    motor-cycle and the machine stuttered into life.
    "The snow ploughs are out in Cambridge, Dusty."
    - "You can borrow a horse at Newmarket."...

  • Nuts-In-Shell 20

    Nuts-In-Shell
    by Mr. A. Court, JS Produce Department More than likely, many of us do not get round
    to eating nuts on the 25th or 26th of December,
    but enjoy them when other festive delicacies
    have been forgotten.
    Of in-shell...

  • Managers' Conference 1968 21

    Managers' Conference 1968 This year the Managers' Conference
    for branch managers and supervisory
    staff was held at the Queen
    Elizabeth Hall on November 11.
    Arriving staff could have coffee
    in the foyer before the first...

  • Parties In and Out of town 24

    Warehouse and Transport Section
    held a dinner dance and
    entertainments night at Deny and
    Toms Rainbow Room on
    November 2. About 540 members
    and guests from Blackfriars,
    Buntingford, Basingstoke and the
    branches turned out...

  • White and Golden 30

    White and Golden Congratulations to Colin George and Helen
    Welch, both formerly of Walton Branch. Colin
    George is now at Bognor.
    Congratulations to Geoffrey Orange and Sandra
    Booth of Slough, who were married on
    September 28...

  • Obituary 31

    Obituary
    George Thomson worked in the Kitchens from
    April 1937 with a National Service break of four
    and a half years; for the last 13 years he was in
    charge of the Bakery. All his colleagues in the
    factory will remember his...

  • Two New Appointments to District Supervisor 31

    Staff News
    Two New Appointments to District Supervisor R. E. Gregory joined the Company on the
    15th July, 1929 and was appointed to the
    management of Oxted in December, 1946. In
    May, 1950 he took over Redhill and was...

  • Frost Fairs 32

    In 1814 the last of the Frost Fairs on the Thames took place. The river began to freeze after a severe frost which
    began on January 8. By the end of January the ice was unbroken between London and Blackfriars Bridges.
    Booths...