'Office Talk' newsletter
'Office Talk', Autumn 1992
Issue of quarterly newsletter for staff at Sainsbury's London headquarters (Blackfriars and Streatham offices). Illustrated with black and white photographs. 8 page stapled format.
Contains the following articles:
‘Soap on a rope’ – abseiling window cleaner on Drury House – photo with...
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Contains the following articles:
‘Soap on a rope’ – abseiling window cleaner on Drury House – photo with...
- Ref. No: SA/SC/1/2/19
- Date: 1992
- Level: Item
- Extent: 1 item
- Access: Open
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Issue of quarterly newsletter for staff at Sainsbury's London headquarters (Blackfriars and Streatham offices). Illustrated with black and white photographs. 8 page stapled format.
Contains the following articles:
‘Soap on a rope’ – abseiling window cleaner on Drury House – photo with caption
‘Free wheelers’ – staff cyclists interviews
‘Focus on Facilities’ – news from head office buildings
‘Well I never’ – artesian well below head office building
‘Girls on film’ – 1915 Pathe newsreels from the archive shown
‘Do you qualify for success?’ – New Education Sponsorship scheme trial
‘Joint Consultative Committee’ – staff crossings/ID passes/car parking
‘Appointments’
‘A matter of taste’ - consumer testing Sainsbury's products
‘Blooming god for Kew’ – Kew gardens piece (discount for Office Talk readers)
‘Dragon Boat Race’ – Sainsbury’s team photo with caption
‘Social Scene’ – events diary
‘Good clean fun’ – Staff at Woolwich Barracks assault course and other events/gym news
‘Notice board’ – club-groups/Marketplace/accommodation etc/wedding photo
Contains the following articles:
‘Soap on a rope’ – abseiling window cleaner on Drury House – photo with caption
‘Free wheelers’ – staff cyclists interviews
‘Focus on Facilities’ – news from head office buildings
‘Well I never’ – artesian well below head office building
‘Girls on film’ – 1915 Pathe newsreels from the archive shown
‘Do you qualify for success?’ – New Education Sponsorship scheme trial
‘Joint Consultative Committee’ – staff crossings/ID passes/car parking
‘Appointments’
‘A matter of taste’ - consumer testing Sainsbury's products
‘Blooming god for Kew’ – Kew gardens piece (discount for Office Talk readers)
‘Dragon Boat Race’ – Sainsbury’s team photo with caption
‘Social Scene’ – events diary
‘Good clean fun’ – Staff at Woolwich Barracks assault course and other events/gym news
‘Notice board’ – club-groups/Marketplace/accommodation etc/wedding photo
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Silent film footage from a Pathe news reel showing female members of staff at work in a Sainsbury's shop - a woman on the egg stall, a woman on the cheese counter, and a woman on the butter counter. The footage highlights the recruitment of women at Sainsbury's in the First World War during which many of the company's male staff were serving in the armed forces. 59 seconds long. An article relating to this newsreel is included in JS Journal Apr 1986, page 18.
Pathé newsreel film footage of female staff at a Sainsbury's branch during the First World War
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