'JS Journal', December 1959

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• Christmas Greetings
  02

  OUR RICHMOND SHOP NOW . . . AND THEN—CHRISTMAS 1899
  wish to take this opportunity to send Christmas
  and New Year Greetings to all members of the firm
  and its friends the world over.
  They wish also to express their thanks to...

• Walsall Branch
  04

  J.S. are trading
  again in
  WALSALL
  Our firm began trading in Walsall in 1936 when
  we bought the Thorogood shops in the Midlands.
  This shop was never a big one, but we wouldn't
  have closed it in 1957 if we could have...

• Walsall, a Town with a Hundred Trades
  07

  Staffordshire is
  famous for
  bull terriers.
  Here's a
  champion.
  Kennel Gazette Picture
  A grey day in a red-brick town.
  Walsall
  A Town with a Hundred Trades
  A town of 114,600 population, 393.5 ft. above sea
  level, 9 miles...

• A Great Nostrum
  10

  Christmas Dish
  A Great
  NOSTRUM
  Sweet, rich and even in flavour is how the experts
  say a good mincemeat should taste. No single
  flavour should dominate it. The making may or
  may not take great skill in cookery depending...

• Penny Wise
  11

  Penny Wise
  Every Christmas a lot more coins go
  into circulation to help us celebrate
  the season. At the Royal Mint on
  Tower Hill they t a k e these
  seasonal demands in their stride. "People expect to see something rather...

• Dinner at the Savoy
  15

  On November 17th
  the Directors entertained
  to dinner at
  the Savoy Hotel, London,
  the firm's branch
  Supervisory staff
  and Managers, together
  with all other Executives
  and Officials
  throughout the business.
  On this...

• Get Surrounded by the Sea
  23

  Both for cheerful hopefuls who expect
  last year's summer to repeat itself
  and for cautious realists hardened
  by experience we present possible
  islands for your holidays Elba
  It's about the same size as the Isle of Wight...

• Buntingford
  26

  Buntingford
  First pictures of the new J.S. depot show
  it as an Army Ordnance Depot which
  will shortly be transformed into the first
  J.S. warehouse outside London. Buntingford
  is on the London—Cambridge Road.

• A bottle for Christmas
  28

  A bottle
  for
  CHRISTMAS This is about Wine. It is for beginners. We know
  everyone will read this page, because readers who
  know about wine always know more about wine
  than other people, and people who don't know
  about wine...

• Out of Town
  30

  Out of Town
  Gerrards Cross and Beaconsfield held a Dinner Dance
  on November 3rd at the Bell Hotel where 13
  branches were represented. Presentation is being made
  by Mrs. Dyer to Mr. W.J. Evans, whose ticket
  carried a lucky...

• To Kent for a Night Out
  31

  The Grasshopper Inn.
  To Kent for a Night Out
  Trying to find something or somewhere different in the way of
  entertainment these days is quite difficult, but 'P' Section
  (J.S. Garage) certainly found it at the Grasshopper Inn...

• Corrections
  32

  Corrections
  In the November issue we regret that in our obituary of Mr.
  F. C. Hardwick on page 22 his initials were given as R. C.
  On page 2 of the same number our Enfield branch opened in 1896
  is at 16 Church Street.
  The...

• Transfers and Promotions
  32

  Managers
  K. P. WOOD
  Assistant Managers
  H.CLARK
  V. RAWCLIFFE
  F. NEWBURY
  E. G. SPRIGGS
  C. SUMMERTON
  E. BALDWIN
  A. STAPLEY
  from Spare
  to 24 Croydon
  from 9/11 Croydon
  to 24 Croydon
  from Ashford
  to 24 Croydon
  from...

• Obituaries
  33

  Obituaries
  We regret to record the deaths of the following colleagues
  and send our sympathy to all relatives:
  S. Collett who joined the firm in 1950 as a
  Warehouseman in the Depot. He was later promoted
  to Checker but in 1958...

• Retirements
  33

  Retirements
  We send our best wishes to the following colleagues who have
  retired:
  W Mr. P. W. Atkins. Mrs. C. L. Colmar.
  P. W. Atkins who has just retired from Guildford
  where he has been employed as a Porter since
  joining...

• A Long Way Down Memory Lane
  34

  A Long Way Down Memory Lane
  qPO GROCERS and PROVISION ± DEALERS.—A Young Man of strictly
  moral principles, age 25 years,
  WISHES to OBTAIN another SITUATION.
  He has had nine years' experience
  in the business, four years'...

• Contents Page
  35

  Page 2
  Christmas Greetings
  Page 4
  Walsall Branch
  Page 7
  Walsall, a Town with a Hundred Trades
  Page 10
  A Great Nostrum
  Page 11
  Penny Wise
  Page 15
  Dinner at the Savoy
  Page 23
  Get Surrounded by the Sea
  Page 26
  Buntingford
  Page 28
  A...