'JS Journal', July 1967

Table of content

• Birthday Honours list for 1967
  02

  In the Birthday Honours list for 1967, a Knighthood,

• Buntingford
  03

  BUNTINGFORD
  New Depot Gets Going This long perspective of racking
  stretches for over a hundred yards
  across the non-perishables
  warehouse of our new depot.
  Goods are received at the far end
  and put away. Orders are...

• Wealdstone Branch opens
  08

  Wealdstone Wealdstone self-service at
  16/20 High Street which opened
  on April 11th. JS started trading
  in this street exactly sixty years
  ago at No. 30, opening a second
  shop known as 'Belmont' in 1937.
  Three service shops...

• The Self-Service of Sainsbury's
  11

  The following article, which appeared in a recent
  issue of the magazine 'Management Today', created
  a great deal of interest both inside and outside
  the firm. It is probably the only occasion that
  an article of such length and...

• The Home Scene
  20

  THE HOME SCENE
  Let's Have a Picnic Are we, I wonder, returning to the grand old
  picnics of former days when a picnic was
  a real expedition ? The pony trap was
  laden with hampers and casks, farmhouse
  fare, horse-rugs and...

• Dances
  22

  North-East London Area at the Connaught Rooms The cabaret (above and foot of next page)
  included dancers, a fire-eater and singers. Mr. Davis's area, north and north-east London,
  held their first dinner/dance at the
  Connaught...

• Darts Finals '67
  24

  ARTS FINALS AT BLACKFRIAR5 APRIL S3 A record number of sections entered this year's
  Darts Competitions. The Finals were held, as
  usual, in Blackfriars Main Canteen. Rivalry
  was fierce, standards high and interest keen,
  as can...

• Retirement
  26

  RETIREMENT
  Seven from the Warehouse, entertained at Dulwich Seven members of the firm's Warehouse and
  Transport Staff who between them have
  marked up 287 years of service retire this year.
  Their colleagues and friends...

• Rifle Club
  27

  Secoy A wins Cup
  One of the lesser known of the Griffin
  activities is the Secoy Rifle Club. It consists at
  the moment of only about a dozen regular
  members but the club would very much
  like to expand.
  Our picture shows...

• Movements and Promotions
  28

  Movements and Promotions
  Managerial Appointments
  j . ENFIELD from Spare a t Purley to the
  management of Selsdon
  from June 19
  from Spare a t Nuneaton to the
  management of Nuneaton
  from March 20
  from Spare a t Dunstable to...

• Retirements
  29

  Retirements
  We send our best wishes to the following colleagues
  who have just retired.
  L. W. Squires commenced with the firm at
  Leytonstone on the 22nd January 1923, and
  remained in this area until he was appointed to
  the...

• Obituaries
  31

  Mrs. F. M. Cook D. W. Gardener Mrs. E. M. Gibbs
  H. T. Rumble G. H. Talbot Obituaries
  We regret to record the death of the following
  colleagues and send our sympathy to all relatives.
  L. P . Smith who died on the 16th April...

• Contents Page
  32

  C127
  Page 3
  Buntingford
  Page 8
  Wealdstone Branch opens
  Page 11
  The Self-Service of Sainsbury's
  Page 20
  The Home Scene
  Page 22
  Dances
  Page 24
  Darts Finals '67
  Page 26
  Retirement
  Page 28
  Staff News
  Cover picture.
  Buntingford...