Sainsbury's Archive

[trigger]

I'm not sure if it's been posted before but today i discovered that Sainsbury's have archived each store online so that you can view media about them, and it's a treasure trove!

https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/branch/branches/

I've picked a few from my local stores so far.

Hadleigh Road in Ipswich 1992.

Warren heath Ipswich 1985.

Any ideas what this car is?. Daf maybe?

 

[trigger]

Moreton hall, Bury St Edmunds 1987.

Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds 1981.

 

[HMC]

Think it’s a Fiat 131. Great pics thanks for the link!

 

edit- sorry just realised it was the pic below; I recon some sort of daf too

[stuboy]

great link

[trigger]

Lexden Colchester 1979

 

 

[HMC]

Just Idly browsing here, Bristol 1996

[sutty2006]

This thread is full of Win. 

[HMC]

Bristol 1962

[HMC]

1974, 1986- Liverpool Street, islington

[Spottedlaurel]

That's great! I lived around the corner from Hadleigh Road so was a regular there. Difficult to believe how old the cars look for it being 1992-on.

As an older store, I was interested to what Upper Brook Street had to offer:

[HMC]

Guildford, 1992

[HMC]

Dunstable,  1979

[Shep Shepherd]

Some early 1980s views of the Dover branch of Sainsbury's, which until the Deal branch opened in the late 1990s, was the nearest one to where I grew up in east Kent. It only lasted from 1980 to 1992, as the Tesco which opened just outside the town in 1988 killed it:

The big void behind the 305 in the third photo was eventually filled by the Charlton Centre, which was conceived as a small-but-perfectly-formed shopping centre, but is something of a 'dead mall' these days. Apparently, Sainsbury's still owns the leasehold of the building it was located in, even though it's been empty since the mid-2000s. Such is Dover.

[HMC]

bath, 1980

[HMC]

Gloucester, “1970s”

[sutty2006]

I don’t know how you guys have done it, I can’t work my way round the site. I click on Newcastle Sainsbury’s (Staffordshire) and I get every other store. Hanley store I can’t see any pictures. Fuck me I hate technology. 

[Sudsprint]

9 minutes ago, Shep Shepherd said:

Some early 1980s views of the Dover branch of Sainsbury's, which until the Deal branch opened in the late 1990s, was the nearest one to where I grew up in east Kent. It only lasted from 1980 to 1992, as the Tesco which opened just outside the town in 1988 killed it:

An Ascona, a bloody Ascona..

 

 

[Amishtat]

6 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

I don’t know how you guys have done it, I can’t work my way round the site. I click on Newcastle Sainsbury’s (Staffordshire) and I get every other store. Hanley store I can’t see any pictures. Fuck me I hate technology. 

Same here, trying to look for Colchester Tollgate but not getting anywhere. Thanks for posting the Suffolk ones Trig, that's what car parks looked like when I was young. Lots of nice local registrations too! 

[vaughant]

9 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

I don’t know how you guys have done it, I can’t work my way round the site. I click on Newcastle Sainsbury’s (Staffordshire) and I get every other store. Hanley store I can’t see any pictures. Fuck me I hate technology. 

I'm the same, struggling to find anything for the Swansea branch that opened in the late 80's, but I suppose they're may just not be many files??? 

[HMC]

Cardiff, 1984

[trigger]

Just now, Amishtat said:

Same here, trying to look for Colchester Tollgate but not getting anywhere. Thanks for posting the Suffolk ones Trig, that's what car parks looked like when I was young. Lots of nice local registrations too! 

Try this link Tim, It was my local Sainsbury's for many years too.

https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/branch/ref/p658-colchester-stanway-tollgate-west-1987-2011-sainsburys-branch

Here's some more car park gems.

[HMC]

Cardiff, 1984

[sutty2006]

5 minutes ago, vaughant said:

I'm the same, struggling to find anything for the Swansea branch that opened in the late 80's, but I suppose they're may just not be many files??? 

Quite possibly so. 

 

Does anyone else think that whoever was taking the pictures was a shiter before it was cool. 

[trigger]

You can zoom right in on the website, Applejack Allegro and Renault 17 being personal favorites.

https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/sabra7d646-photograph-of-derby-kingsway-store-exterior-and-car-park-c-1987/search/eweo-term:car-park/action/ajax/c/2

[Sudsprint]

2 minutes ago, trigger said:

You can zoom right in on the website, Applejack Allegro and Renault 17 being personal favorites.

https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/sabra7d646-photograph-of-derby-kingsway-store-exterior-and-car-park-c-1987/search/eweo-term:car-park/action/ajax/c/2

Isn't it a 15?

[trigger]

3 minutes ago, Sudsprint said:

Isn't it a 15?

Probably, I'm always confusing the two!

[Spottedlaurel]

16 minutes ago, HMC said:

Cardiff, 1984

Nice Sunny coupe. Had a surprisingly long life, making it to 2000.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Is that white fiat coupe with L plate the same one exiting stage right in the earlier street scene?

[Cavcraft]

This thread is class, is that actually a 1.3 base Mk4 Cortina in the second set of pictures? 

[egg]

Canterbury. What a line up.