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Record: Photographs of staff, stores and workshops in England (FRAS 538)

Title: Photographs of staff, stores and workshops in England
Date: 1872-c 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538
Former reference: HF 6/16/1-22, 24-37  
Physical description: 0.26 metres  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd
Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Record type: Photographs

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Title: Photograph of print of exterior of Victoria Street store
Date: 1872
Reference: FRAS 538/1
Former reference: HF 6/16/31  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy C-operative Society Ltd

Scope and content:

Photograph of print of exterior of Victoria Street store reproduced in general price lists (ref: FRAS 313).

Records linked to this file:

Title: General price lists
Date: 1872-1940
Reference: FRAS 313
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd   Army & Navy Stores Ltd    
Connection: The photograph is of a print that appears in the price lists.

Title: Photograph of workshop for manufacture and repair of watches
Date: 1880
Reference: FRAS 538/2
Former reference: HF 6/16/4  
Physical description: 1 framed photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photograph of workshop for manufacture and repair of watches
Date: c 1880
Reference: FRAS 538/3
Former reference: HF 6/16/1  
Physical description: 1 framed photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photograph of corner of Howick Place, Victoria, London
Date: 1898
Reference: FRAS 538/4
Former reference: HF 6/16/16  
Physical description: 1 photograph (mounted on card)  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Photographs of die stamping workshop
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/5
Former reference: HF 6/16/6  
Physical description: 2 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Scope and content:

One photograph shows men workers and the other shows women workers.

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Title: Photographs of workshops for printing and bookbinding
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/6
Former reference: HF 6/16/7  
Physical description: 11 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Scope and content:

Some of the photographs show stages in the production of the Society's general price list.

Records linked to this file:

Title: General price lists
Date: 1872-1940
Reference: FRAS 313
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd   Army & Navy Stores Ltd    
Connection: The production of the general price list is shown in some of the photographs.

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Title: Photographs of workshops for manufacture of silver tableware
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/7
Former reference: HF 6/16/8  
Physical description: 2 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photographs of workshop for manufacture of baggage
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/8
Former reference: HF 6/16/9  
Physical description: 4 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Scope and content:

Photographs show manufacture of bags, trunks, cases and hampers.

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Title: Photograph of workshop for manufacture of saddles and harness
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/9
Former reference: HF 6/16/9  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photographs of shirt factory
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/10
Former reference: HF 6/16/10  
Physical description: 4 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photographs of various workshops
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/11
Former reference: HF 6/16/11  
Physical description: 14 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Photographs of employees arriving at Army & Navy Stores
Date: c 1890s
Reference: FRAS 538/12
Former reference: HF 6/16/12  
Physical description: 2 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Photograph of workshop for repair of clocks
Date: 1900
Reference: FRAS 538/13
Former reference: HF 6/16/2  
Physical description: 1 framed photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photograph of workshop for repair of jewellery
Date: 1900
Reference: FRAS 538/14
Former reference: HF 6/16/3  
Physical description: 1 framed photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photograph of crashed catering department delivery vehicle
Date: c 1900s
Reference: FRAS 538/15
Former reference: HF 6/16/14  
Physical description: 1 postcard  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Photograph of page of toys in Circular
Date: 1914
Reference: FRAS 538/16
Former reference: HF 6/16/32  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Records linked to this file:

Title: Circular
Date: 1914
Reference: FRAS 504/4
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: The photograph is of page 136 in the November to December issue of the 1914 Circular.

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Title: Photograph of page in Circular of presents for officers and soldiers at the front
Date: 1914
Reference: FRAS 538/17
Former reference: HF 6/16/34  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Records linked to this file:

Title: Circular
Date: 1914
Reference: FRAS 504/4
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: The photograph is of page 52 in the November to December issue of the 1914 Circular.

Title: Photograph of Society's first lift girl
Date: March 1915
Reference: FRAS 538/18
Former reference: HF 6/16/5  
Physical description: 1 mounted photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Photograph of expeditionary force parcels price list
Date: April 1915
Reference: FRAS 538/19
Former reference: HF 6/16/35  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Records linked to this file:

Title: Expeditionary force parcels price list
Date: April 1915
Reference: FRAS 521
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: This is the original document.

Title: Photographs of exterior of stores, decorated for victory
Date: c 1918
Reference: FRAS 538/20
Former reference: HF 6/16/15  
Physical description: 2 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Photographs of cigar and tobacco department
Date: c 1920
Reference: FRAS 538/21
Former reference: HF 6/16/13  
Physical description: 2 postcards  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photograph of page of toys in general price list
Date: 1925
Reference: FRAS 538/22
Former reference: HF 6/16/32  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Records linked to this file:

Title: General price list
Date: 1925-1926
Reference: FRAS 313/18
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: The photograph is of page 880 in the price list.

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Title: Photograph of page of maids' caps and aprons in general price list
Date: 1925
Reference: FRAS 538/23
Former reference: HF 6/16/33  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Records linked to this file:

Title: General price list
Date: 1925-1926
Reference: FRAS 313/18
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: The photograph is of page 682 in the price list.

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Title: Photograph of motoring accessories section in Victoria Street store
Date: c 1920s
Reference: FRAS 538/24
Former reference: HF 6/16/17  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photograph of motor car showroom
Date: c 1920s
Reference: FRAS 538/25
Former reference: HF 6/16/17  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photograph of boat department in Victoria Street store
Date: c 1920s
Reference: FRAS 538/26
Former reference: HF 6/16/17  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

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Title: Photographs of window and in store displays
Date: c 1920s
Reference: FRAS 538/27
Former reference: HF 6/16/25  
Physical description: 1 volume containing 64 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Scope and content:

Window and in store displays of women's clothes and shoes, furniture, furnishings, table settings, food, groceries, cigarettes, sports equipment, military uniforms and equipment, musical instruments, gramophones, toys, ironmongery, refrigerators and batteries.

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Title: Photograph of lift and attendant in Victoria Street store
Date: c 1930s
Reference: FRAS 538/28
Former reference: HF 6/16/18  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Photographs of bomb damage to Stores
Date: c 1940s
Reference: FRAS 538/29
Former reference: HF 6/16/20  
Physical description: 8 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: Photographs of Victoria Street Store exteriors, interiors and departments
Date: c 1940s
Reference: FRAS 538/30
Former reference: HF 6/16/26  
Physical description: 1 guardbook containing 30 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Scope and content:

Photographs of exterior of store showing window displays and of interior of store showing entrance hall, staircase and departments selling music, cosmetics, medical supplies, drugs, optical instruments, clocks and watches, photographic equipment, cutlery, glassware, furnishings, paints, ironmongery, tools and air raid precaution goods.

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Title: Photographs of fishing tackle department
Date: 1959
Reference: FRAS 538/31
Former reference: HF 6/16/19  
Physical description: 2 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

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Title: Photograph of television department
Date: 1950s
Reference: FRAS 538/32
Former reference: HF 6/16/19  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

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Title: Photograph of curtain workroom
Date: c 1969
Reference: FRAS 538/33
Former reference: HF 6/16/24  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

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Title: Photographs of computer department
Date: 1970
Reference: FRAS 538/34
Former reference: HF 6/16/22  
Physical description: 2 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: Photographs used in centenary publication
Date: 1971
Reference: FRAS 538/35
Former reference: HF 6/16/28  
Physical description: 14 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Scope and content:

Photographs of: Admiral Sir Richard Collinson, chairman 1871-1879 Major F.B. McCrea, managing director 1871 Captain A. Campbell, chairman 1918 Brigadier General Sir Frederick Gascoigne, chairman 1932-1944 Major General Guy P. Dawnay, chairman 1944-1952 Commander Stephen Clive Lyttelton, chairman 1952-1959 E.D. Wainwright, chairman 1971 William Semple, managing director 1971 wall clock, 1875 delivery van, 1950s wine buyer examining stock, 1960s exterior of main entrance to Victoria Street store, 1960s exterior of Harveys of Camberley, 1970s exterior of Bromley branch, 1970s

Records linked to this file:

Title: Illustrated history of Army & Navy Stores Ltd
Date: 1971
Reference: FRAS 776
Company: Army & Navy Stores Ltd    
Connection: The photographs were used in this publication.

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Title: Photographs of artist's impression of new Victoria Street store
Date: c 1973
Reference: FRAS 538/36
Former reference: HF 6/16/21  
Physical description: 3 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: Photograph of delivery van
Date: 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/37
Former reference: HF 6/16/27  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: Photograph of perfume department in Bromley branch
Date: 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/38
Former reference: HF 6/16/27  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

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Title: Photograph of curtain department in Bromley branch
Date: 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/39
Former reference: HF 6/16/27  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

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Title: Photograph of book department in Bromley branch
Date: 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/40
Former reference: HF 6/16/27  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

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Title: Photograph of float outside Bromley branch
Date: 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/41
Former reference: HF 6/16/27  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: Photograph of Wombles and Father Christmas visiting Guildford branch
Date: 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/42
Former reference: HF 6/16/27  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: Photographs of piper in Camberley branch
Date: 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/43
Former reference: HF 6/16/27  
Physical description: 2 photographs  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Scope and content:

Photographs of piper playing in wine department and next to soup display.

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Title: Photograph of model of Army & Navy store
Date: c 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/44
Former reference:
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: Photograph of customers queuing for sale at Chichester branch
Date: c 1970s
Reference: FRAS 538/45
Former reference: HF 115/1/1  
Physical description: 1 photograph  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Records related to this series:

Title: Photographs of branches and staff in India
Date: c 1892-1930s
Reference: FRAS 616
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd   Army & Navy Stores Ltd    
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