Comments on: Sandle Brothers, Manufacturing Stationers

By: Anne Parnell

Anne Parnell — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:12:22 +0000

My mother, Rosa Bird, worked in the office of Sandles around 1915. She used to tell me how she saved a halfpenny bus fare walking from Hackey to Paternoster Row! I believe she worked there for several years until she married in 1921.

By: Charles E Simonds

Charles E Simonds — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 04:41:21 +0000

I worked for Sandle Bros from 1961 to 1970 on leaving for Australia to live. I was a commercial traveller for the company, Kent Surry and Sussex was my territory. The company had two premises at the time one in Kensington and another in Wandsworth, they had a showroom at Snow Hill in the city of London which closed in about 1966 when they made the showroom at Wandsworth.

By: Achim

Achim — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:39:50 +0000

If only one could stroll around there …

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:21:43 +0000

Mmm…Stationery….(drool)

By: Steve Hanscomb

Steve Hanscomb — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:15:21 +0000

Paternoster Row was very badly bombed during the Blitz, wiping the buildings on the business card out. The Row was finally replaced by Paternoster Square in 2003.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:15:05 +0000

1793, surprising to find that public stationery purchasing went that far back.
Three cheers for the Bishopsgate Institute’s mouth watering wide variety of courses. Thriving, thriving, thriving – lang may your lum reek…

By: Colin Cohen

Colin Cohen — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:31:43 +0000

It seems so odd that this is history, totally vanished! Having worked for a well-known East End printer in the 60s and 70s this is just the sort of place that I used to visit for specialist supplies

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:11:43 +0000

Heroic stationers! Indeed. And I would desire a heroic budget to be able to shop-till-I-dropped in this emporium of fascinations. Lordy, even the shipping crates appealed to my collector’s eye.
Thanks for taking us on the tour. My mythical shopping basket overflows.

By: Steve Hanscomb

Steve Hanscomb — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:43:42 +0000

Very interesting! I had a search for Sandle Brothers and the last dated information I could find was for 1947, when they exhibited at the British Industries Fair. They were “Manufacturers of Zipp Writing Cases and the “Charterhouse” Series of Albums, Address Books, Note Books and Diaries and the “Super” Pencil Sharpening Machine. Publishers of Children’s Toy-books. (Olympia, 1st Floor, Stand No. H.2172)” according to Grace’s Guide to Industrial History.
I wonder how long they lasted after this?

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:50:49 +0000

The bygone realm of stationery…