Branch letters (memoranda from head office), 1938-39
1938-1939Memoranda from Head Office to branches and departments with instructions regarding product availability; pricing; display; advertising etc. Most letters are numbered from 679 to 998. Many letters...
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Bulletin Extracts
Sep 1939-Nov 1942Bulletins (Daily Bulletins and Special Bulletins) and memoranda from Sainsbury's head office to branches concerning various matters relating to the operation of the business including issues relating...
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Image of 92/100 Tanners Lane, Barkingside branch interior: three women talking
May 1977SA/BRA/7/B/3/1/69
Image of Bristol (33/39 Broadweir, Broadmead Shopping Centre) store interior: checkouts
[1960s]Photograph by Maillard, London (reference 31/37/62). On the back of the photograph, three women (staff?) on the right of the photograph have been identified.
SA/BRA/7/B/39/1/1
Image of Cambridge Coldhams Lane store interior: customers loading shopping into a car
[3 Dec 1974]Features two young women loading shopping into a car. Photograph by Brian Shuel (reference SSF 32/10).
SA/BRA/7/C/4/3/60
Image of promotional visit to Cambridge Coldhams Lane store by women from St Albans
Oct 1985The photograph featured in 'JS Journal' October 1975 page 3. The article explains that "nearly fifty women became the guests of JS [Sainsbury's] for a day when they were taken from St Albans on a...
SA/BRA/7/C/4/3/529
Image of (Colchester branch staff?) in costume on a stage
[1930s-1960s]Photograph showing a group of men and women on a stage wearing various costumes. Since the photograph had been put in the Colchester branch image file, it is assumed that the people on the stage are...
SA/BRA/7/C/31/1/7
Image of a group at the checkout at Colchester (probably Tollgate West, Stanway) branch
[c. 1987]Photograph showing a group of women watching the operation of the checkout with barcode scanning. The photograph is labelled 'Colchester' - this probably refers to the store at Tollgate West, Stanway,...
SA/BRA/7/C/31/4/9
Image of Bell Green, Coventry store: two women chatting, Sainsbury's store under construction in background
[1969]The photograph appears in 'JS Journal' February/March 1969 page 16. The Sainsbury's store is under construction in the background behind the hoardings, it would use two existing shop units in the...
SA/BRA/7/C/34/4/2
Image of six female shop assistants promoting Crelos margarine at 9/11 London Road, Croydon store
[1915]Postcard showing six women employees promoting Crelos Margarine in the window of the Sainsbury's branch at 9/11 London Road, Croydon. The shop assistants are holding a banner "Buy Crelos Margarine and...
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Image of 9/11 London Road, Croydon branch interior: two women customers
[1950]Photograph showing two older female customers in the canned meats, fish, soups and vegetables section. Products include salmon, Sunset and Glenry.. pilchards, Ako Crabmeat, M of F [Ministry of Food]...
SA/BRA/7/C/41/1/14
Image of 96 Kingfisher Drive, Langney, Eastbourne branch manager Leslie Hessey with three women wearing sashes promoting the opening of Langney, Eastbourne Shopping Centre
15 May 1973SA/BRA/7/E/5/3/18
Image of a group at the checkout (at 836-852 High Road, North Finchley)
[1987-1990s]Photograph of a group mainly of women at the checkout, it looks like perhaps they were being given a demonstration of the barcode scanning checkout. There appear to be two other groups in the...
SA/BRA/7/F/6/4/243
Image of 148-150 High Street, Guildford branch exterior
[c. 1992]Photograph showing the exterior of the Sainsbury's branch on High Street, Guildford. Two 'customers' can be seen crossing the road with shopping bags (this is evidently posed, these two women hold the...
SA/BRA/7/G/12/1/127
Image of 148-150 High Street, Guildford branch exterior
[c. 1992]Photograph showing the exterior of the Sainsbury's branch on High Street, Guildford. Two 'customers' can be seen crossing the road with shopping bags (this is evidently posed, these two women hold the...
SA/BRA/7/G/12/1/128
Image of 148-150 High Street, Guildford branch exterior
[c. 1992]Photograph showing the exterior of the Sainsbury's branch on High Street, Guildford. Two 'customers' can be seen crossing the road with shopping bags (this is evidently posed, these two women hold the...
SA/BRA/7/G/12/1/129
Image of 148-150 High Street, Guildford branch exterior
[c. 1992]Photograph showing the exterior of the Sainsbury's branch on High Street, Guildford. Two 'customers' can be seen crossing the road with shopping bags (this is evidently posed, these two women hold the...
SA/BRA/7/G/12/1/130
Image of 148-150 High Street, Guildford branch exterior
[c. 1992]Photograph showing the exterior of the Sainsbury's branch on High Street, Guildford. Two 'customers' can be seen crossing the road with shopping bags (this is evidently posed, these two women hold...
SA/BRA/7/G/12/1/131
Image of 148-150 High Street, Guildford branch exterior
[c. 1992]Photograph showing the exterior of the Sainsbury's branch on High Street, Guildford. Two 'customers' can be seen crossing the road with shopping bags (this is evidently posed, these two women hold the...
SA/BRA/7/G/12/1/132
Image of two women with Habitat shopping bags at the multi-storey car park at Eden Walk, Kingston
[c. 1967]Image by E. Dawson Strange, Cobham (reference JS/135/16).
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