Sainsbury was born on 12 June 1844 at 5 Oakley Avenue, Lambeth.
Oakley Avenue is now Baylis Highway, and previous street-numbering plans present that quantity 5 was on the Westminster Bridge Highway finish of the road, on a web site now occupied by the Westminster Sq. residential advanced, shut to what’s now Costa Espresso and the Level A resort.
Modern enterprise directories document 5 Oakley Avenue because the premises of Robert Cave, a fishing sort out producer.
Sainsbury learnt his commerce working for a grocer in The Reduce from the age of 14, earlier than occurring to arrange the now-famous household agency in 1869.
In line with an official historical past of the corporate printed for the centenary in 1969 the census of 1851 information the founder's dad and mom, with two daughters and a son, dwelling at Quick Avenue, off The New Reduce.
Sainsbury's had its headquarters in Stamford Avenue between 1890 and 2001, and the corporate nonetheless nods to its native heritage with its Stamford Avenue worth vary of merchandise.
A bust of John James Sainsbury was on show at Stamford Avenue HQ and is now on the Sainsbury Examine Centre within the Museum of London Docklands.
Having moved to Holborn in 2001, subsequent 12 months the corporate is because of relocate its HQ to Charterhouse Avenue, near Smithfield Market.
The corporate's native connections are recorded for posterity within the stained glass at Christ Church Southwark in Blackfriars Highway. The Colombo Centre in Colombo Avenue occupies a constructing that when served because the Sainsbury's workers canteen.
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