"Peat Smoked Mild Cure Bacon" price list notice
[1882-c. 1890]Price list with text "Please Order by Number", listing the different types of bacon available and the price per pound. Includes address at bottom "Sainsbury's Wholesale Depot, Allcroft Rd, Kentish...
SA/WHO/1/1/9
Christmas 1895. Wholesale Price List.
Dec 1895The price list is in the form of a letter to wholesale customers. Prices are given for turkeys, geese and other game, hams, cheese, tongue and bacon. It seems likely that the price list was issued...
SA/WHO/1/1/1
Photograph of emergency shop
[1939-1945]The photograph shows a Sainsbury's emergency shop set up outside a bombed building. It was one of two vans used to serve customers when a Sainsbury's branch was unable to trade normally following...
SA/WAR/2/IMA/1/10
Photograph of customer being served at counter, with coupons being cut from her ration book
[1940-1954]SA/WAR/2/IMA/1/9
Photograph of customer with ration book being served with eggs
[1940-1953]This photograph is featured in 'The Best Butter in the World' page 112.
SA/WAR/2/IMA/1/8
Image of 'Very Important' rationing notice
[1940]Notice headed 'VERY IMPORTANT whether you usually shop at Sainsbury's or not. RATIONING'. It gives reasons why customers should register at Sainsbury's. Date given is that of the notice rather than of...
SA/WAR/2/IMA/1/7
J Sainsbury ration card image
[1939-1950s]Image of Sainsbury's ration card. These ration cards were used to give priority to regular customers for non-rationed goods in short supply. See also SA/WAR/2/2/1 for leaflet explaining the card.
SA/WAR/2/IMA/1/6
Photograph of unknown branch exterior with rationing window advertisements
1940sPhotograph features poster in window "The things you see rarely are all shared out fairly at Sainsbury's". Also features adjacent shops Sanders Bros (grocery) and Rego (tailors/hosiers).
SA/WAR/2/IMA/1/2
Photograph of female butcher, Second World War
[1939-1945]SA/WAR/2/IMA/1/1
Ministry of Food 'Food Facts: How to get your Christmas extras' advertisement
5 Dec 1944Food Facts No. 231. From 'The Times' newspaper 5 Dec 1944
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Ministry of Food "Food Facts: More Variety Dishes" press advertisement
[c. 1939-1945]Food Facts No. 287. Contains recipes for Barley Mince and Vegetables in Cheese Batter.
SA/WAR/2/4/2
Ministry of Food Ration Book (Child) 1952-53
1952-1953SA/WAR/2/4/1/1
"J Sainsbury Ration Card"
c. 1940SA/WAR/2/2/11
Ministry of Food 'Licence to Sell Foodstuffs by Retail' for 245 Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon branch
1941SA/WAR/2/2/9
Food Control Committee 'Certificate of Registration' for 245 Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon branch
1939SA/WAR/2/2/8
"J Sainsbury Branch Rationing Guide"
Nov 19454th Edition of Rationing Guide
SA/WAR/2/2/7
Photograph of interior of East Grinstead shop in church with staff, Second World War
[1943-1951]This branch was temporarily moved into a disused church after a bomb hit the shop building during the Second World War.
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"Sainsbury's scheme for the fair distribution of certain 'short supply' foods" leaflet
[1940s-1950s]Leaflet relating to the J. Sainsbury Ration Cards which limited the amount of certain non-rationed goods that each customer could buy.
SA/WAR/2/2/1
Letter to Mr Croft, former Sainsbury's colleague now in the RAF, providing branch news
1942SA/WAR/2/1/z/9