'JS Journal', December 1958

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• New Shop, Drury Lane
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• Contents Page
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  Page 1
  New Shop, Drury Lane
  Page 2
  The Last of the First
  Page 4
  They're Open!
  Page 9
  'The Lane'
  Page 13
  Happy Christmas
  Page 14
  The thin and the thick of it
  Page 16
  Three dances and a social
  Page 18
  'Y' Fly to Brussels
  Page...

• The Last of the First
  02

  The Last of the First November 10th 1958 was the last day of
  trading for the little shop at 173 Drury Lane
  where John James Sainsbury and his wife
  Mary Ann opened their dairy in 1869.
  In the autumn evening,...

• They're Open !
  04

  They're Open !
  10 a.m., November 11th, 1958
  She's delighted to be top of the queue as the new shop
  opens. A cheerful and excited crowd of shoppers came
  streaming into the new branch which hasn't a rival
  in that part of...

• 'The Lane'
  09

  Sudden Death,
  Little Nellie
  and Stout
  for Breakfast
  'The Lane'
  We probably won't ever know just exactly why
  John James Sainsbury chose a shop in Drury Lane
  when he decided to set up in business as a dairyman,
  but he could...

• Happy Christmas
  13

  We would
  like to t a k e
  this opportunity
  of wishing all
  our readers
  a very happy
  Christmas and
  many birds
  in all their
  bushes too.

• The thin and the thick of it
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  The thin and the thick of it
  by J. L. Woods
  Thinking of one's weight is not an unpleasant
  pastime providing one doesn't have to do anything
  about it—even if one ought to do something about
  it, it's one of those things one...

• Three dances and a social
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  DANCES AND SOCIALS
  £ I I J November 1st saw'W section and friends enjoying
  \ J themselves at Blackfriars at the section's dance. Picture below
  is a party from Chingford and the one on the right
  is a lucky girl who had a lucky...

• Y' Fly to Brussels
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  TRIPS ABROAD
  'Y'
  Fly to Brussels
  Homeward Bound
  The exhibition is over now, but the extraordinary
  Atomium is to remain for another ten years
  as an attraction to visitors and a reminder
  of the world's biggest yet exhibition....

• Wonderful 'D'ay!
  19

  Wonderful 'D ay
  'D' section took off from Blackbushe for a Sunday
  in Paris at 10 a.m. on October 19th and, they all say,
  had a wonderful time there. Sightseeing included the
  Arc de Triomphe (it covers the tomb of The...

• Ten Little Niggers
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  "Ten Little Niggers" proved a very enjoyable, tense and exciting drama—presented by
  a youthful cast bound together by the cleverly calculated playing and forceful stage
  presence of that stalwart Valentine Dever.
  Although the...

• Cake and Turkey
  21

  Diets in Danger!
  Here's Miss Sewell ofJ.S. Sampling Room with the cake
  she baked and iced from her own recipes in the October
  and the November J.S. Journals. After trying it we
  can confirm that it's one of the best practical...

• Really the End
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  Really the End
  Early last month we found ourselves looking from
  the fourth floor, right into the ruins of the lecture
  hall of the Rotunda, which used to be in Blackfriars
  Road. In this hall Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  first gave...

• Down Memory Lane
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  Down Memory Lane
  Here is the centrepiece of a
  window display at 87 Ealing
  in J915y when Mr. Beavis
  was manager. The poster
  of "The Union of the Day"
  was much used then to
  publicise the offer of "Double
  Weight" Nuts and...

• Prize at Balham
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  Prize at Balham 'H' section held their dance
  on November 12th at the
  "Bedford," Balham. First
  prize winner in the raffle got a
  camera. She was Mrs. A.
  Walls of 176 Streatham and
  that's Mr. Russell of Norbury
  handing it...

• Obituary
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  Obituary
  We regret to record the deaths of these colleagues and send
  our deepest sympathy to all relatives:
  T. E. CASEY, who joined the firm in October
  1957 as a Basket Issuer at Paddington. He died on
  November 7th after a...

• Retirements
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  Retirements
  We send our very best wishes to the following colleagues
  who have recently retired:
  MRS. K. O. PAIN, who started in 1936 as a Daily
  Maid at 14 Ilford, but was later promoted to
  Housekeeper. In 1955 she was...

• Transfers and Promotions
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  Transfers and Promotions
  Managers:
  G. PAWSEY
  H. J. GOSHAWK
  L. PRICE
  D.BILLINGS
  E. R. PRYKE
  Assistant Manager:
  A. S. HAGGER
  Head Butchers:
  R. DOWNS
  G. TWITCHETT
  G. BYE
  from 173 Drury Lane
  to 296 Holloway
  from 296...

• News from our National Servicemen
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  News from our National Servicemen
  G. E. Balnaves, High Barnet, Stafford (R.A.F.).
  Regards himself as fortunate in not being sent to Cyprus
  recently and hopes, since he has only seven more months
  to do in uniform, that he will...

• ? What
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  WHAT
  Can you identify the object in the picture above ?
  For the first correct identification to be opened
  "J.S. Journal" offers a prize of a
  £ 1 * 0 * 0 Premium Bond
  Entries should be sent to "J.S. Journal," Stamford
  House,...