Sainsbury 1869

Sainsbury's was founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann Sainsbury in London.
 
Their first shop was in Drury Lane, and ‘The Best Butter in the World: A History of Sainsbury's', recounts that when John James Sainsbury ‘had finished his work ……… he went over to Drury Lane and scrubbed the counters and cleaned the scales and weights…'.
 
The first dealings that we have with Sainsbury's is recorded on this Sales Ledger page, when Sainsbury's took over a grocers shop previously run by Brown & Co in Outram Street, Kings Cross, in the 1870s.
 

 
Sainsbury 1869

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