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    Store signage

    [c. 1950s-1990s]

    Consists of interior store signage giving customers information relating to butter shortages, late night shopping hours, self selection fruit and vegetables and non smoking policy. Also includes a...

    SA/BR/6/6

    Store signage

    Butter beater and slice

    1994

    2 wooden paddle-shaped implements used to cut and beat into shape butter. The slice is smooth on both sides and has a cutting edge, the beater is grooved on one side and smooth on the other. These...

    SA/BR/8/2

    Butter beater and slice

    Butter pat

    20th century

    Wooden paddle shaped implement with a grooved surface and a short handle used to work butter into shape. This pat would have been one of a pair. (Replica)

    SA/BR/8/27

    Butter pat

    Provisions price lists (cards), 1923-40

    Jul 1923-Dec 1940

    Consists of nineteen cards displaying the price per pack and/or the price by weight for a variety of Sainsbury's products including bacon, cheese, butter, poultry and game, preserves, canned fruits,...

    SA/BR/15/28

    Provisions price lists (cards), 1923-40

    Price alterations to butter, cabbages and chicory, 3 and 6 Oct 1958

    3 Oct 1958

    One sheet contains price alterations to butter, commencing Friday 3 October 1958. The other contains the prices of small cabbages and chicory, commencing Monday 6 October 1958, which some branches...

    SA/BR/15/31

    Price alterations to butter, cabbages and chicory, 3 and 6 Oct 1958

    Photograph of shop counter with female employee and refrigerated cabinet containing dairy products

    10 Nov 1954

    Photograph appears to be of one of the early 1950s partially self-service stores - possibly Debden (24 The Broadway), Grange Hill (185 Manford Way), Oxhey (7 St Andrew's Road) or Croydon (9/11 London...

    SA/BR/16/IMA/1/1

    SA/BR/16/IMA/1/1 - Photograph of shop counter with female employee and refrigerated cabinet containing dairy products
    Photograph of shop counter with female employee and refrigerated cabinet containing dairy products

    Butter slice

    20th Century

    Wooden implement with a short handle and a slicing head. The slice is smooth on both sides and has a cutting edge, it also has a blunt end where it appears to have been shortened. There is an...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/4/1

    Butter slice

    Butter slice

    20th Century

    Wooden implement with a short handle and a large slicing head. The slice is smooth on both sides and has a cutting edge. There is an inscription on the handle, 'J. SAINSBURY BLACKFRIARS'. The slice...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/4/2

    Butter slice

    Butter slice

    20th Century

    Wooden implement with a short handle and a large slicing head. The slice is smooth on both sides and has a cutting edge. There is an inscription on the handle, 'J. SAINSBURY BLACKFRIARS'. The slice...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/4/3

    Butter slice

    Butter slice

    20th Century

    Wooden implement with a short handle and a large slicing head. The slice is smooth on both sides and has a cutting edge. There is an inscription on the handle, 'J. SAINSBURY BLACKFRIARS'. It would...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/4/4

    Butter slice

    Butter beater

    20th Century

    Wooden paddle shaped implement with a grooved surface and a long handle used to beat butter into shape in Sainsbury's counter service shops. There is an inscription on the handle, 'J. SAINSBURY...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/5/1

    Butter beater

    Butter beater

    20th Century

    Wooden paddle shaped implement with a grooved surface and a long handle used to beat butter into shape in Sainsbury's counter service shops. There is an inscription on the handle, 'J. SAINSBURY...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/5/2

    Butter beater

    Butter beater

    [20th century]

    Wooden paddle shaped implement with a grooved surface and a long handle used to beat butter into shape in Sainsbury's counter service shops. There is an inscription on the handle, 'J. SAINSBURY...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/5/3

    Butter beater

    Butter beater

    20th Century

    Wooden paddle shaped implement with grooved surface used to beat butter into shape as used in Sainsbury's counter shops. Would have been 1 of a pair. A pre-existing reference number is written in...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/5/4

    Butter beater

    Butter tester

    [c. 1950s-1960s]

    Plastic spatula like implements. According to the aquistion register it is a butter tester. Imprinted with J. Sainsbury on 1 surface. Tapers towards rounded ends and is broader in the middle.

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/8/1

    Butter tester

    Butter tester

    [c. 1950s-1960s]

    Plastic spatula like implements. According to the aquistion register it is a butter tester. Imprinted with J. Sainsbury in red ink on 1 surface. Tapers towards rounded ends and is broader in the...

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/8/2

    Butter tester

    Balance scales

    1950s

    Balance scales set to measure 4lb (possibly for butter) and if the item is lighter or heavier then the set weight.

    SA/BRA/4/1/2/19/5

    Balance scales

    Image of staff preparing butter in preparation area of 138-140 Finchley Road, Hampstead branch

    22 Jan 1954

    Includes packets labelled "Danish Butter" and "New Zealand Butter"

    SA/BRA/7/H/6/2/2

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    Image of staff preparing butter in preparation area of 138-140 Finchley Road, Hampstead branch

    Sainsbury's The Magazine Aug 1996

    Aug 1996

    Issue 40 Anatomy of An Ingrediant - alpine butter

    SA/CPUB/1/1/9/3

    Sainsbury's The Magazine Aug 1996

    Images of dairy products and food containing dairy products used in Family Circle magazine

    [1960s]

    Contains colour transparencies, some of which have been mounted, of dairy products and dishes containing dairy products. Also contains colour transparencies used in 'Sainsbury's cheese makes the...

    SA/CPUB/FC/4/4

    Images of dairy products and food containing dairy products used in Family Circle magazine