This picture was taken in 1920, just after Robert Sayle had become a Limited Company. The four Directors decided that they would like to be photographed with the employees who had been with the company for the longest time. Each man has spent 50 years working there!
Reading from right to left:
Standing: Mr Turner, a Commercial Traveller
Bill Rayner, a Van Driver
J B Rampling, a Director
Arthur H Clark, a Director and Manager of the Fashion Department
J W Pretty, a Director
J Struggles, Manager of Linens Department
Seated: A Holliday, Head of Wholesale Department
D Clark, Forman of the Wholesale Packing
G H Doggett, Director and Head of Counting House
S Fromont, Foreman of Despatch
H Harvey, Driver and horse-keeper to Mr Chaplin, head of the firm.
The gentleman sitting on the front row on the far right is my great grandfather Henry Harvey (not the left as the caption says)His son John worked for Robert Sayle as a lorry driver.
By j.vail (18/12/2014)
One of Robert Sayle’s sons, George, worked in London as the Manager of the London operation and whilst there attended the same Chapel as George Doggett who was a member of a Cambridge family. On George Doggett’s return to Cambridge he was quoted in the 1881 census as Warehouse Manager and this was with the Robert Sayle store. It appears that the family remained in the employment of Robert Sayle as in the above picture, taken in 1920, there is a G H Doggett who was both a Director and Head of Counting House when the store became a Limited Company.
This information was passed to me by Mr David Burbridge from Melbourn who is still in touch with the descendants of the Doggett family.
Marjorie Shaw
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The gentleman sitting on the front row on the far right is my great grandfather Henry Harvey (not the left as the caption says)His son John worked for Robert Sayle as a lorry driver.
One of Robert Sayle’s sons, George, worked in London as the Manager of the London operation and whilst there attended the same Chapel as George Doggett who was a member of a Cambridge family. On George Doggett’s return to Cambridge he was quoted in the 1881 census as Warehouse Manager and this was with the Robert Sayle store. It appears that the family remained in the employment of Robert Sayle as in the above picture, taken in 1920, there is a G H Doggett who was both a Director and Head of Counting House when the store became a Limited Company.
This information was passed to me by Mr David Burbridge from Melbourn who is still in touch with the descendants of the Doggett family.
Marjorie Shaw
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