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The Sainsbury Archive documents the history of @Sainsburys from its foundation in Drury Lane in 1869 to now. Visit us @museumoflondon Docklands
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Do you have any memories about working, shopping, or eating food from
@sainsburys
? We'd love for you to share them with us on our website:
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Big News. We've just digitised and uploaded all of our approved packaging collection and packaging images. Happy Friday everyone.
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It's Friday the 13th! It's our 1000th tweet! It's what I believe to be the most hideous packaging in our entire collection!
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*Big Announcement*
Hello everyone,
As part of our most recent upload we've digitised all the product design material for our Own Label packaging - think mock ups, drawings and design briefs. It can all be found here:
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Designed in 1977 by Richard Williams, our
#FridayFavourite
this week is our 20/50 Multigrade Motor Oil can.
@Richard38218547
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Designed in 1967 by Peter Proto, our
#FridayFavourite
this week is our tapioca, semolina, and sago milk pudding packaging
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In case you were wondering, we have over 5,000 images of car parks on our website 🚗🚙
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Who remembers Sainsbury's Low Fat Yogurt from the 1980s?
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Our
#FridayFavourite
this week is this collection of potato crisps packaging from the 1970s-1980s. Which one is your favourite?
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For those of you enjoying our packaging designs, we've just uploaded images for about 1000 constructed items - including these marvellous non food items. Be warned we have a unusually large amount of yogurt pots.
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For this week we've picked our Mr. Happy Banana Low Fat Yogurt pot from 1985 for our
#FridayFavourite
#HappyFriday
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For
#MiniMilestones
we're celebrating the first Sainsbury's Local, which opened in Hammersmith in 1998
#Archive30
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Our
#FridayFavourite
this week is this mock up of packaging for Sainsbury's English bramley apple slices from the 1970s
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One for
@MandSHeritage
, our
#FridayFavourite
this week is our Strawberry Fool pot from the 1970s.
You can find more fool packaging designs here:
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Designed in 1964 by Peter Dixon, our
#FridayFavourite
this week is our frozen filleted cod packaging
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Wishing you all a very Merry 'Own Label' Christmas
🎄🎅☃️
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Designed by Keith Brackenborough in 1979, our
#FridayFavourite
are these talcum powder bottles
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It's dessert week on Great British Bake off. In our archive dessert only means one thing...
#GBBO
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Inspired by our breakfast post earlier this week, or
#FridayFavourite
are these juice packets
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#Advent
day 16 is this image of the Atkinsons store, Sheffield from 1975 - when you could apparently "visit the Womble Grotto and meet J Sainsbury"
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A new series of
#GreatBritishBakeOff
means a return of 70s baking themed images (not that they really went away)
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we are here for all your carrier bag and accuracy needs
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I found some delightfully mundane pictures from the collection. It's only fair I share them with you
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Chosen for our
#FridayFavourite
this week is this image of Sainsbury's Strong Medium Dry Cider and Sainsbury's Medium Sweet Cider from the 1970s
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Our
#FridayFavourite
today is this tomato puree packaging, dating from 1973 and designed by John Hill and Peter Dixon.
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Our
#ConservationWin
was when we went through all our packaging objects to remove the food contained in them.
Apart from this one. This one we missed.
#Archive30
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Polite reminder: the Sainsbury Archive is a collection of historical documents, photographs and objects held at the Museum of London Docklands.
We have nothing to do with current supermarket operations.
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It's December 1988 and we're at the opening of the Camden branch in London for
#ThrowbackThursday
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Where do you want to go for lunch?
Me: Sainsbury’s Head Office in Blackfriars circa 1971, please 🙏😍
#StaffCanteenGoals
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People who like our images of car parks may also like.... images of petrol stations:
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Whatever happened to putting a nice mural on your shop?
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If you need a Friday afternoon distraction, you know our packaging collection is always here for you:
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It's
#InternationalArchivesDay
- lets celebrate the only way we know how. With pictures of cake from the 1970s. 🥳
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Fed up of banana bread and looking for new
#lockdown2021
cooking inspiration? We've got good news for you - we've just uploaded another 13,500 images onto our website, including these classic 70s recipes
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R is for... Recipes. Specifically these glorious three course meal cards.
#ArchiveZ
If anyone fancies recreating the 1970s in their own kitchen they're digitised here:
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went looking for cute pet photos in our collection.
found … this
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I confess I forgot that
#ExploreYourArchive
started on Saturday! Bit behind but for
#communication
we have a
#MeatPhone
used for ordering items that aren't on display
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Before fridges were commonplace today was the day you started to order your turkey. This is an image of the branch at 193 Rushey Green, Catford with a Christmas game and poultry display
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@YorkshireMuseum
we would like to nominate these two classy cats for
#BestCat
- we can't choose between them.
#CuratorBattle
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Labels from Sainsbury’s South African wine collection in the 1990s
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Designed in 1953 by Leonard Beaumont, our
#FridayFavourite
this week is this egg packaging. One of the first packaging items to be put on shelves after the introduction of self-service shopping, while beautiful, the design had obvious flaws and was replaced by a more sturdy box.
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