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...
SA/BRA/3/1/2/46/3
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...
SA/BRA/3/1/2/46/4
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 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).
SA/BRA/7/K/12/3/23
Image of three women on the stairs at the multi-storey car park at Eden Walk, Kingston
[c. 1967]Image by E. Dawson Strange, Cobham (reference JS/136/20).
SA/BRA/7/K/12/3/24
Image of two women and man at the multi-storey car park at Eden Walk, Kingston
[c. 1967]Image by E. Dawson Strange, Cobham (reference JS/136/3).
SA/BRA/7/K/12/3/27
Image of women in a lift at the multi-storey car park at Eden Walk, Kingston
[c. 1967]Image by E. Dawson Strange, Cobham (reference JS/136/12).
SA/BRA/7/K/12/3/32
Image of 10-11 West Side Centre, Bury Park, Luton branch: a group of women and children outside the branch
[16 Jul 1968]Photograph by Brian Shuel (reference SN25 frame 22).
SA/BRA/7/L/22/2/6
Image of the exterior of 7 Alderman's Hill, Palmers Green branch
[1959]Image by Maillard; shows J.R. Moore Ltd. and W.H. Smith & Son next to the branch and women waiting at a bus stop
SA/BRA/7/P/3/1/5
Images of interior and car park of Flaxland Bretton Centre, Bretton, Peterborough branch on opening day with staff and customers
[25 Apr 1972]Includes delicatessen and group photograph of chairman John Davan Sainsbury with group of women and girls in car park. Images by Brian Shuel, part of contact sheet with no reference number written on...
SA/BRA/7/P/6/1/91
Image of the exterior of 33/35 Bridge Street, Pinner branch after extension
1966Photograph taken shortly before the self service extension to the store was opened [in 1966]. Staff can be seen inside the extension on the left and appear to be stacking shelves and preparing the...
SA/BRA/7/P/7/1/4
Image of Hankridge Farm, Taunton branch: two women (managers?)
[1992]Photograph taken at Sainsbury's Hankridge Farm branch at Heron Gate, Taunton opened on 10 November 1992 showing two employees who are presumably part of the store's management team or administration.
SA/BRA/7/T/3/2/19
Image of Hankridge Farm, Taunton branch: two women (managers?)
[1992]Photograph taken at Sainsbury's Hankridge Farm branch at Heron Gate, Taunton opened on 10 November 1992 showing two employees who are presumably part of the store's management team or administration.
SA/BRA/7/T/3/2/20
Image of 68-71 Arndale Centre, Wandsworth branch: two women with trolleys full of shopping outside store
[c. 1971]Photograph by Bill MacKenzie, London, SW14 (reference A620/20). See also SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/61-62 for pictures of the customers loading their shopping into a car.
SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/38
Image of 68-71 Arndale Centre, Wandsworth branch: two women with trolleys full of shopping outside store
[c. 1971]Photograph by Bill MacKenzie, London, SW14 (reference A620/22). See also SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/61-62 for pictures of the customers loading their shopping into a car.
SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/39
Image of 68-71 Arndale Centre, Wandsworth branch: two women with trolleys full of shopping outside store
[c. 1971]Photograph by Bill MacKenzie, London, SW14 (reference A620/23). See also SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/61-62 for pictures of the customers loading their shopping into a car.
SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/40
Image of 68-71 Arndale Centre, Wandsworth branch: women with children in prams outside branch
[c. 1971]Photograph by Bill MacKenzie, London, SW14 (reference A620/34).
SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/44
Image of 68-71 Arndale Centre, Wandsworth branch: customers in car park with shopping loaded into car
[c. 1971]Photograph of two women customers loading their shopping in "Good Food Costs Less at Sainsbury's" paper carrier bags into their Morris Minor Traveller car in the multi-storey car park at the Arndale...
SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/61
Image of 68-71 Arndale Centre, Wandsworth branch: customers in car park with shopping loaded into car
[c. 1971]Photograph of two women customers having loaded their shopping in "Good Food Costs Less at Sainsbury's" paper carrier bags into their Morris Minor Traveller car in the multi-storey car park at the...
SA/BRA/7/W/7/1/62
Image of exterior of 17/9 Central Square, High Road, Wembley branch with customers
[c. 25 Jan 1966]Includes trolleys and poster in window reading "Part time vacancies at this store - women as Packers". Larger print of an image included in contact sheet SA/BRA/7/W/17/3/6
SA/BRA/7/W/17/3/7
Image of exterior of 17/9 Central Square, High Road, Wembley branch with customers
[c. 25 Jan 1966]Includes trolleys and poster in window reading "Part time vacancies at this store - women as Packers". Larger print of an image included in contact sheet SA/BRA/7/W/17/3/6
SA/BRA/7/W/17/3/8
Image of North Worle District Centre, Worle branch interior
[c. 1978]Photograph taken at the Sainsbury's branch at North Worle District Centre, Queensway, Worle, Weston-super-Mare. Photograph by Don Fraser FIIP of Academy Studios Ltd, Wallington (reference 11814A/73C)....
SA/BRA/7/W/41/117
"Family" (magazine) issue 12, Summer 1964
1964Recipe booklet "Sainsbury's Cheese Makes The Meal" is enclosed. Contains the following articles: Your Letters ‘Family Postbox’ ‘Beauty’ ‘Gardening’ General Features Are Women Funny?...
SA/CPUB/FC/FAM/1/13
"Come and work at Sainsbury's" booklet
[c. 1962]Recruitment brochure for women considering working in Sainsbury's stores. It is similar to SA/EMP/1/1/2/11 but this is a new version with increased pay rates and reference to the new five day week...
SA/DES/39/139
"Women there's a job to suit you at.. J Sainsbury" (City & West End version) flyer
Sep 1969Recruitment leaflet for staff at Sainsbury's branches with details of pay and conditions. The leaflet has a code 'City & West End' printed on the back - such codes must have been used internally to...
SA/DES/39/233