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JS Journal Feb 1959 FEBRUARY 1959 HOUSE MAGAZINE OF J. SAINSBUBY LTD >" Ml ww ROUND THE BRANCHES Looking down river from the old bridge across the Derwent, some of Derby's history is silhouetted against the winter sun. The towers of Lombe's silk mill and of the Cathedral flank the power station. JS Journal 2 Derby HOUSE MAGAZINE OF J.SAINSBURY LTD 7 Think Twice! FEBRUARY 1959 8 Big Season SERIES NO. A59 1 O Sweet Beet If you can write a letter you can probably write an 1 5 Whist Drive article or a story for J.S. Journal. There are no limi- 16 168 Streatham tations on subject matter though we suggest that writers should stick to personal observation or ex- Contents 19 Dances perience for their material. For contributions from 2 2 Lightning Chess J.S. staff we pay at the rate of £2-0-0 for every 750 words published. For photographs by members of the 2 2 They Got Married staff we pay 10/6 for each print published. 23 Staff News Send your manuscripts or your photographs to: 24 National Service News The Editor, J.S. Journal, 24 Calais Trip Stamford House, Stamford Street, 24 ?What London, S.E.I. Our cover picture: Frost in Derby's Arboretum. •x*.t 2 1* W : ^ssii «'.. t»; r I One 0/ Britain's most handsome zvrought-iron screens adorns Derby Cathedral. It is the work of Robert Bakewell, an 18th-century Derbyshire ironsmith. Derby Farthest Branch Derby, when we last visited it, was shrouded in A few years later William Duesbury opened a ice. It looked, as our pictures show, romantic, china works at Derby. The Crown Derby works beautiful and packed with history. The Romans still flourishes though it passed out of Duesbury's started Derby with a little camp on the banks of family after the third generation. The "father of the Derwent. Since then there's always been some­ chemistry," Henry Cavendish, a splendidly eccen­ one living there. When the Normans made The tric, mad scientist, was a member of a famous Domesday Book they counted about 2,000 people Derbyshire family. He hated women and could living there—a sizeable town for those days. By hardly bear to speak to men. His orders to his the 18th century it wasn't a great deal bigger. But housekeeper for meals were invariably written out it was enterprising. John Lombe built England's and invariably commanded a leg of mutton for first silk mill there in 1717. The vicar of All Saints' dinner (two legs if there were guests). He is buried had his church pulled down and called in James in All Saints' (now the Cathedral), where lie others Gibb, the architect who built St. Martin-in-the- of the Cavendish family below the handsome Fields, to build him an elegant, classical church alabaster memorial to the Countess of Shrewsbury. against the Gothic tower which was left standing. The Countess, better known as Bess of Hardwick, Bonnie Prince Charlie changed his mind there in began married life at 12 years of age. She married 1745 and retired from the futile struggle for the four times and all her husbands left her property. throne of England. His loyal Highland supporters By Sir William Cavendish she had six children, all withdrew to Scotland and died at Culloden, after of whom she placed in positions of power or which battle the old clans were broken up and the influence and from whom descend the ducal houses bagpipes declared an illegal "instrument of war." of Devonshire and Newcastle. 3 Engineer Frederick Henry Royce is com­ Bess of Hardwick lies in effigy on the handsome memorated in Derby's Arboretum. He Jacobean tomb she had built for herself in built, with the Hon. Charles Rolls, the Derby Cathedral. She lies buried in front first Rolls-Royce car. It had two cylinders of it with others of her family. and developed ten horse power. Nineteenth-century Derby grew prosperous and riotous by turns. Luddites smashed machines in John Lombe's silk mill. Trade unionists fought bitter strikes for the right to organise. A local man, Joseph Strutt, in 1840 set a national style by making, in the Arboretum, one of the first gifts of public land to a town in England. In the 1880s the railways came and Derby became one John Lombe's silk mill opened in 1717 of Britain's great railway centres. Today, with a on a tiny island in the Derwent. population of nearly 140,000, it is a prosperous Today only the tower remains town with many industries. of the original structure. Our own branch there was one of the Thorogood shops taken over by Mr. John in 1936. The manager at that time was Mr. E. Pendrick. Today this busy shop is furthest from Blackfriars (our vans leave at 03.00 a.m., arrive about 08.30 a.m.), but in spite of that it is every inch a J.S. branch. Our farthest away branch at Derby. A general view of the interior. This was one of the Thorogood shops taken over in 1936. Assistant manager Mr. Flint. Manager Mr. E. H. Ramsden went to Derby as manager in 1956. He joined J.S. in 1924 and was first promoted to manager in 1936. r> Miss Stringer, First Clerk (left), and Miss H. Smith. Miss Stringer joined J.S. in 1936. Derby's warehouse. Mr. K. Brown and, at the bacon machine, Mr. D. Potter. Below: poultry man G. Hardie plucks a pheasant. Left: Miss Forman, housekeeper, and Mrs. Mellor. Roundsman F. Wright. r W Miss B. Smith and Mrs. Clifton, cooked meats preparation room. Darts is a popular game at Derby branch. On the far left are the section trophies. The salesman is Mr. F. Whittingham, who holds the section championship. The ladies' championship is held by Mrs. Jean Henderson. Derby have high hopes of their chances in the Midlands competition at Leicester in March. In 1958 over a million motor cars were made in Britain, Of these rather over half were available for the home market, in a year in which credit facilities improved and restrictions on hire purchase were removed. Think Twice! With this sobering thought in mind we are publishing the article below. By James Clay, J.S. Driving Instructor. However intelligent men or women drivers may be, it does not mean that they will become good drivers. The physical side of driving is merely a close to the kerb nor too far out in the road. matter of learning half a dozen various actions and Second, use your mirror or mirrors before giving co-ordinating them properly, and though at first the appropriate signal. Third, change to the correct these actions seem impossibly difficult, in fact it is gear so that acceleration can be made at the right easier to drive a car than it is to work some sewing moment, and fourth, follow a safe and correct line machines. Some learners take to driving like a duck round the corner. takes to water and others, well, you can talk until you are blue in the face and even then they still Short way to an argument haven't a clue. I would say the worst thing one can do is to criti­ cise another man's driving, it is one of the quickest Our next move ways to start an argument. That is why a Ministry Behind it all there are two words that keep you out Examiner is forbidden to discuss the driving test of trouble, and they are ROAD PROCEDURE. It after the candidate has taken it. Tempers soon does not matter how smooth your take-off is, or become short. For example; if ever you have seen how great you are at gear changing, what really a slight collision, or been involved yourself, it is counts is if you are able to anticipate what your always the other driver who is responsible. But next move must be just that second or part of a he is just as certain that you are to blame, and second sooner than the other man. Some have this this isn't just a front to edge the blame, both as a natural aptitude and, for them, driving is a drivers are convinced they are in the right. relaxed affair. Others find it harder work and are I would like to quote you the following figures. far more prone to accidents. Take braking for In 1958 the number of casualties in road accidents example. A driver with good judgment, when reached 299,767, which is 821 per day. Deaths approaching a hazard, sees it that fraction earlier, numbered 5,970, child casualties 49,863, which so starts to brake in good time, and if he has to included 717 killed. The growth in the number of bring his vehicle to a stop will be releasing his vehicles on the road must, of course, be taken into brakes gradually so the final stop will be made with account. In 1958, the number of licensed vehicles minimum pressure or even no pressure at all on went up to the terrific total of 7,900,000, an increase the brake pedal. On the other hand the less apt of 480,000. The long-awaited and very much- driver will not start braking until it is obvious to needed improvements to our roads will remove him that he is approaching too fast, then on go the many of the existing hazards and will undoubtedly brakes and they stay on until the wheels groan to a help towards reducing the accident rate.
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