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Record: Presscuttings (FRAS 617)

Title: Presscuttings
Date: 1876-1982
Reference: FRAS 617
Former reference: HF 6/15  
Physical description: 1 volume and 1 box  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd
Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Scope and content:

Newspaper articles concerning the Society.

Record type: Press cuttings

Function:

Records held within this series:

Title: Article in The Globe and related correspondence on Society's refusal to admit unsuitably clothed members
Date: December 1876
Reference: FRAS 617/1
Former reference: HF 6/15/1  
Physical description: 1 bundle  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Title: Articles on Studdert v Grosvenor
Date: 1886, 1888
Reference: FRAS 617/2
Former reference: HF 6/15/28  
Physical description: 2 newspaper cuttings  
Origination

Additional information:

The legal case Studdert v Grosvenor was heard in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, in July 1886. It was brought by Studdert, a shareholder of the Society, against the directors of the Society. It concerned the issue of proxy papers and the use of shareholders' money to pay the costs of actions brought by directors in their own defence.

Records linked to this file:

Title: Report of proceedings of general meeting of shareholders
Date: September 1880
Reference: FRAS 493/24
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: This volume was used as an exhibit in the case.

Title: Report of proceedings of general meeting of shareholders
Date: March 1881
Reference: FRAS 493/25
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: This volume was used as an exhibit in the case.

Title: Report of proceedings of general meeting of shareholders
Date: March 1882
Reference: FRAS 493/27
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection: This volume was used as an exhibit in the case.

Title: Article in London and Brighton relating to managing director of Junior Army & Navy Stores
Date: March 1888
Reference: FRAS 617/3
Former reference: HF 6/15/2  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Letters in The Star relating to employees' wages and directors' salaries, and related letter
Date: April 1888
Reference: FRAS 617/4
Former reference: HF 6/15/21  
Physical description: 1 letter and 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Article in The Statist relating to finances of co-operative societies
Date: April 1889
Reference: FRAS 617/5
Former reference: HF 6/15/9  
Physical description: 1 journal  
Origination

Title: Cartoon from Punch relating to Army & Navy Stores
Date: May 1890
Reference: FRAS 617/6
Former reference: HF 6/15/6  
Physical description: 1 pamphlet  
Origination

Title: Article in Truth relating to Stores' profits
Date: May 1890
Reference: FRAS 617/7
Former reference: HF 6/15/7  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Letter in Truth relating to poor service at Stores
Date: May 1890
Reference: FRAS 617/8
Former reference: HF 6/15/8  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Article in Truth relating to Society's profits
Date: July 1890
Reference: FRAS 617/9
Former reference: HF 6/15/4  
Physical description: 1 pamphlet  
Origination

Title: Cartoons relating to customers' dogs waiting at entrance to Stores
Date: 1890, 1899
Reference: FRAS 617/10
Former reference: HF 6/15/3  
Physical description: 2 newspaper cuttings  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Additional information:

The cartoons are from the Daily Mail and the Lady's Pictorial.

Title: Article in Investors' Guardian relating to Stores' finances
Date: March 1891
Reference: FRAS 617/11
Former reference: HF 6/15/12  
Physical description: 1 newspaper article  
Origination

Title: Article in Times of India relating to misuse of Army & Navy title by another company
Date: June 1891
Reference: FRAS 617/12
Former reference: HF 6/15/10  
Physical description: 1 newspaper article  
Origination

Title: Article on marquee provided by Society for visit of French fleet to Portsmouth
Date: August 1891
Reference: FRAS 617/13
Former reference: HF 6/15/28  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Articles relating to employment conditions at the Stores
Date: 1891-1893
Reference: FRAS 617/14
Former reference: HF 6/15/15  
Physical description: 4 newspaper articles  
Origination

Additional information:

The articles are from The Army & Navy Gazette, the Daily Chronicle, the Daily Telegraphand The Sun.

Title: Article in Land and Waterrelating to Stores and traditional shops
Date: April 1892
Reference: FRAS 617/15
Former reference: HF 6/15/13  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Article in Land and Waterrelating to Stores' refreshment room
Date: April 1892
Reference: FRAS 617/16
Former reference: HF 6/15/14  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Articles in The Sun relating to Stores' profits
Date: July 1893
Reference: FRAS 617/17
Former reference: HF 6/15/20  
Physical description: 3 newspaper cuttings  
Origination

Title: Advertisement in The Morning for Army & Navy Furnishing Company and related letter
Date: October 1893
Reference: FRAS 617/18
Former reference: HF 6/15/19  
Physical description: 1 letter and 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd

Additional information:

The Society complained to The Morning about the misuse of the title Army & Navy in an advertisement it published for the Army & Navy Furnishing Company.

Title: Article in The Staron Stores' attitude to shoplifting
Date: November 1893
Reference: FRAS 617/19
Former reference: HF 6/15/18  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Article in St James's Gazetteon Christmas shopping at the Stores
Date: December 1893
Reference: FRAS 617/20
Former reference: HF 6/15/17  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Articles in Truth on army cloth scandal
Date: 1893
Reference: FRAS 617/21
Former reference: HF 6/15/16  
Physical description: 6 pages  
Origination

Title: Article in Pall Mall Gazette relating to Stores' finances
Date: April 1894
Reference: FRAS 617/22
Former reference: HF 6/15/22  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Article in The Oil and General Stores Trade Circular on the Society
Date: May 1894
Reference: FRAS 617/23
Former reference: HF 6/15/31  
Physical description: 1 pamphlet  
Origination

Title: Article on fire at Bombay branch
Date: 1896
Reference: FRAS 617/24
Former reference: HF 6/13/8  
Physical description: 1 page  
Origination

Additional information:

Article in supplement to English Mail, 14 March 1896, taken from Bombay Gazette, 12 March 1896.

Records linked to this file:

Title: Insurance report and claim for fire at Bombay branch
Date: 1896
Reference: FRAS 581
Company: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd    
Connection:

Title: Copies of The Labour Leader containing articles on employment conditions in the Stores
Date: July 1898-May 1899
Reference: FRAS 617/25
Former reference: HF 6/15/29  
Physical description: 1 bundle  
Origination

Title: Illustrated article in Daily Mailon Christmas shopping at the Stores
Date: December 1898
Reference: FRAS 617/26
Former reference: HF 6/15/23  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Articles on opening of branch in Chowringhee, Calcutta
Date: 1901-1902
Reference: FRAS 617/27
Former reference: HF 6/13/9  
Physical description: 4 cuttings  
Origination

Records linked to this file:

Title: Correspondence on closure of Calcutta branch
Date: 1947-1948
Reference: FRAS 678
Company: Army & Navy Stores Ltd    
Connection:

Title: Joke in Punch about Harrods and the Stores
Date: April 1907
Reference: FRAS 617/28
Former reference: HF 6/15/24  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Title: Newspaper cuttings on Amir of Afghanistan's visits to Indian branches
Date: 1907
Reference: FRAS 617/29
Former reference: HF 6/13/11  
Physical description: 2 cuttings  
Origination

Title: Article in The Shop Assistant relating to strike at Stores
Date: December 1919
Reference: FRAS 617/30
Former reference: HF 6/15/25  
Physical description: 1 pamphlet  
Origination

Title: Articles on history of Stores
Date: 1957, 1963
Reference: FRAS 617/31
Former reference: HF 6/15/26  
Physical description: 1 pamphlet and 1 article  
Origination

Additional information:

The articles are from Head and Shoulders and The Diplomatist.

Title: Scrapbook of articles on Army & Navy Stores
Date: 1960-1973
Reference: FRAS 617/32
Former reference: HF 6/15/30  
Physical description: 1 volume  
Origination Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Title: City Press Supplement on Army & Navy Stores
Date: July 1965
Reference: FRAS 617/33
Former reference: HF 6/15/27  
Physical description: 1 newspaper (16 pp)  
Origination

Title: Article on history of Society's wine department
Date: February 1971
Reference: FRAS 617/34
Former reference: HF 6/15/28  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting (photocopy)  
Origination

Title: Article in The News relating to bronze lanterns discarded by Society
Date: May 1982
Reference: FRAS 617/35
Former reference: HF 6/15/32  
Physical description: 1 newspaper cutting  
Origination

Additional information:

The lanterns were salvaged by Portsmouth City Council and re-erected outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth.

Records related to this series:

Title: Scrapbook of newspaper advertisements
Date: 1966-1973
Reference: FRAS 696
Company: Army & Navy Stores Ltd    
Connection:

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