Specific Buildings

Orange banner printed with 'Sainsbury's' in white lettering and 'Making life taste better' in blue.

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Material relating to Blackfriars. Includes: Correspondence and tenders relating to building of canteen and loading bank at Running Horses Yard; account of fresh pork and manufactured products...

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Women's clogs. Black leather upper fixed to a wooden sole with metal pins through a brown leather strip. Lace fastening through four pairs of copper alloy eyelets (laces missing) protected by a...

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Material related to Blackfriars including: hand -written recipes and cooking instructions for meat products e.g. Pork Break, Factory Act health and safety approval, keys for Blackfriars a hook like...

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Material related to Blackfriars including: training paperwork e.g. sample exams, photocopy of 1890 indenture of lease, 1978 Stamford House Christmas card signed by John Sainsbury, licenses for the...

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Material related to Blackfriars including training paperwork e.g. work study appreciation course for self service branch managers, plans and maps, original and photocopied invoices e.g. 1916 invoice...

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Newspaper cutting and postcards relating to the move from Blackfriars to Holborn. Further leaflets including Sainsbury's Bank car insurance.

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Stamford House lettering and Sainsbury's Autovend cards

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Includes a typed account for the erection of a new warehouse and cold store, Gravel Lane, Blackfriars, SE1 designed by Percival C Blow, chartered architect, Mar 1926. The work appears to have been...

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2 fragments of mosaic from former entrance to Stamford House, 1 square and other triangular. Donated by Mr Cyril Rayner 1979.

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Stones removed from a beef kidneys in the factory. Donated by Mr James.

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2 ceramic tiles

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Tress and Wakefield House elevations, 22 December 1954, and a 3rd floor plan of Tress House, revised October 1956.

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42 black and white photographs of construction of new factory (later became Rennie House)

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Rectangular brushed steel nameplate inscribed in black, 'J.B. SAINSBURY'.

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Notes and display labels for an exhibition mounted by the Archives on Sainsbury's kitchens and factory.

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Consists of 32 plans of proposed extensions and modifications to Stamford House, Blackfriars [Sainsbury's headquarters]. Includes architectural and technical drawings. Also includes two plans for...

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Consists of four black and white exterior photographs of Running Horses Yard prior to the development of the site by Sainsbury's. Running Horses Yard was where Sainsbury's delivery horses and carts,...

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Enlarged reproduction of an item of J. Sainsbury, Ltd stationery featuring an illustration Sainsbury's depot at Stamford House, the company name, and space to fill in in a contact telephone number and...

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Seven plans for proposed new buildings at corner of Stamford Street and Bennett Street.

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Two plans of buildings development for canteen and loading bank at Running Horses Yard, Blackfriars, London SE1. One shows the foundations and basement (dated April 1953) and the other shows the...

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Contains three architectural plans showing the basement, lower ground floor and ground floor of Stamford House [Sainsbury's headquarters]. Also contains two plans showing the basement layout of new...

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Plan showing the basement layout of Tress House [offices in London]. The plan was drawn up by the Building Development Department in October 1956 but shows alterations made to offices on 27 January...

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Plan made by the Architects Department showing proposed alterations to the ground, second floor and third floor offices in 3, 5 and 7, Stamford Street, London. Revisions were made to the plan on 10...

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Duplicate copies of cards featuring the address and directions to head office.

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Plans on CD and colour negatives of Stamford House, London (head office).

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Running Horses Yard was the location of the stables for Sainsbury's horse vans, and later (from 1951) of Sainsbury's empties depot.

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Architects' drawing of elevation to Bennett Street, extension to Stamford House, Blackfriars, London [Sainsbury's head office] for Messrs. J. Sainsbury Ltd. Labelled 'Drawing No.10', with scale...

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Includes framed pencil and crayon drawing of Rennie House (originally a factory designed by Sir Owen Williams).

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