All Discussions Tagged 'sainsbury's store history' - Harringay online2024-03-29T12:05:28Zhttps://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=sainsbury%27s+store+history&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSainsbury's in Wood Green, 1904 - 2021, a right old wander round the neighbourhoodtag:harringayonline.com,2021-02-28:844301:Topic:14141262021-02-28T13:23:19.973ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
<p>Sainsbury's has been in Wood Green since 1904*. It's been in three different locations and had changed quite a bit over that period. This article tells the store's Wood Green Story through a series of pictures, courtesy of the Sainsbury archive supplemented by other research courtesy of yours truly.…</p>
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<p>Sainsbury's has been in Wood Green since 1904*. It's been in three different locations and had changed quite a bit over that period. This article tells the store's Wood Green Story through a series of pictures, courtesy of the Sainsbury archive supplemented by other research courtesy of yours truly.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611165090?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611165090?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span><i style="font-size: 8pt;">Fig. 1: Kelly's directories, showing Sainsbury's first premises with the former tenant, the first mention of the store at 61-63 High Road in 1904 and the 1938expansion intonumber 59. </i></span></p>
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<p>As the Kelly's entries show, Sainsbury's took over over Barton's provision store. The company's archive photos suggest that number 59 was acquired in 1933 (see Fig. 5 below). The fact that the Kelly's edition of that year didn't show this suggests that the acquisition was either made very late in 1932 or early in 1933. Sainsbury's remained at these premises until 1973.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611167683?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611167683?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 2: 1924, number 63 - the right (north) half of the 1920s premises</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611172675?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611172675?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 3: Serving customers outside the store, 1929</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611173097?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611177254?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611177254?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611173097?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 4: 1929</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611177488?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611177488?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 5: 1933. number 59, the newly acquired part of the premises - note the different shop front style</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611179463?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611179463?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span><i style="font-size: 8pt;">Fig. 6: January, 1954, still </i><font size="1"><i>retaining</i></font><i style="font-size: 8pt;"> the traditional shop front</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611184688?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611184688?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 7: April 1954 with new shop front</em></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611198086?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611198086?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 8: 1963</em></span></p>
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<p>From April 1963, the store started operating as a partial self-service branch. The self-service shop sold groceries - packeted goods, tinned goods, frozen foods. The counter-service section sold perishable goods and fresh meat. </p>
<p>The following images show the store interior following the change - a fascinating hybrid of new and old.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611203063?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611203063?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 9: 1963, store interior, 1</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611204101?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611204101?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><em>Fig. 10: 1963, store interior, 2</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611206080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611206080?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><em>Fig. 11: 1963, store interior, 3</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611206662?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611206662?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 12: 1973, 59-63 High Street store after closing down. 59-61 is now Halfords (or at least it is on the latest version of Google Street View)</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611210865?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611210865?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 13: 1973, 31st July, opening day at the new Lymington Avenue store. This store was operating from 1973 to 2003. It is now occupied by Matalan.</em></span></p>
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<p>The article below puts the new store in the context of a changing Wood Green and highlights Sainsbury's role in the changes.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611226080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611286852?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611286852?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8611226080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 14: Illustrated London News, 1st September, 1976</em></span></p>
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<p>From 2003, Sainsbury's moved to its current premises at 48-54, High Road. </p>
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<p>There's one more picture of Sainsbury's Wood Green <a href="https://harringayonline.com/photo/postwar-wood-green-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. </p>
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<p>* Sainsbury's first appeared in the 1904 edition of the Kelly's Directory, but in May 1963, Sainsbury's staff magazine, JS, said that the store had opened in 1906.</p> The Development of Sainsbury's Crouch End in Pictures (and a special link with the Sainsbury family)tag:harringayonline.com,2020-07-28:844301:Topic:12733162020-07-28T10:11:13.833ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
<p>Below is a series of photos showing the development of Sainsbury's in Crouch End. </p>
<p>The store opened at the end of the nineteenth century and ran until 1971. As the pictures show, the shop did grow and develop through the years. But when it closed in 1971, it was one of the vanishingly small number of grocery stores still operating as a counter service shop. It never made the step to supermarket. </p>
<p>There was a special link between the Sainsbury family and Crouch End. From the…</p>
<p>Below is a series of photos showing the development of Sainsbury's in Crouch End. </p>
<p>The store opened at the end of the nineteenth century and ran until 1971. As the pictures show, the shop did grow and develop through the years. But when it closed in 1971, it was one of the vanishingly small number of grocery stores still operating as a counter service shop. It never made the step to supermarket. </p>
<p>There was a special link between the Sainsbury family and Crouch End. From the last decade of the nineteenth century until the middle of the next one, the son of the founder of Sainsbury's, and its second chairman, lived in Crouch End. John Benjamin Sainsbury and his wife Mabel lived at <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5757212,-0.1297396,3a,75y,3.73h,84.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgkb9BHjIaKfHM8aorYZe5w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14 Avenue Road</a> (<em>Pitlochrie</em>), Crouch End. By 1911, they had moved to 33 Eaton Road Hampstead. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150278088?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150278088?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Sainsbury's at 5 Broadway in about 1915. Until recently the premises was occupied by Santander Bank.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150287261?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150287261?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>The staff of Sainsbury's Crouch End in 1922</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150292691?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150292691?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-ize: 8pt;"><em>The store had expanded into 3 Broadway in 1930. This photo shows the store just before it was given it's post-war modernisation facelift. Shot in January 1954.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150314283?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7150314283?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>After modernisation. but still a traditional counter store inside. April, 1954</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://st1.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2065057351?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://st1.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2065057351?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>By 1975, Percy Ingle and Abbey National had moved in (the two stores on the far left)</em></span></p>
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<p>My thanks to Sainsbury's archives for all but the first and last photos. My thanks to Ken Stevens for putting me on the trail of the others.</p>
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