Cash book ("Bank 8"), Mar 1943-Sep 1945

Cash book listing transactions in one of Sainsbury's bank accounts.

From March 1943 to January 1944, this volume contains one type of table:
Debit columns (left hand side) are Sundries, Sales, [blank column], Branches, and Total.
Credit columns (right hand side) are Sundries, Relief and Sick Mngrs, Wages, Bought Ledger, and Total.

From January 1944 to October 1945, there are three types of table:
1. Canteens account, divided into the columns: "Ewell", "Saffron Walden", "Woolmer Green", "Stamford House", "Union Street", "Garage Sales", "13/15 Blackfriars", "Wakefield House" and "Total"
2. Creditors
3. A standard cash book table divided into debits on the left and credits on the right.
On the debit (left) side: "Sundries", "Sales", "Rent", "Branches", and "Total".
On the credit (right) side: "Sundries", "Relief and Sick Mngrs", "Wages", Bought Lr." and "Total".
Transactions include salaries/wages and other payments to staff, refugee account payments, Postmaster General insurance stamps/cards, sale of salvage.

From October 1944 to September 1945, there is an additional fourth type of table:
1 to 3: as above
4. "Contra items" (account used to offset another account)
Transactions include some relating to branches including payments relating to boarders, and exchange accounts.

Includes cross-references to other account books:
A: Private ledger A
B:
C:
C/-: references to other folios within this account book
Farm:
number only (written in black)
P.L.