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Title
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Social and Sporting Life
Description
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Items relating to the provision of sporting and social facilities by John Player & Sons for its staff.
In 1906 the company built a recreation ground for its employees to use, complete with club house, at a site on Aspley Lane, Nottingham. Known as the Rec, the site had top-class playing fields which were used for a wide variety of sports.
Photograph
Still images.
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Photograph of Women's Hockey
Description
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A group of women playing field hockey at the company's recreation ground situated at Aspley Lane.
Player's provided sports facilities for its workers at a site at Aspley Lane. Built in 1906, the Recreation Ground, or the Rec as it was known, was a central part of life at Player's right up to the 1980s. The ground's club house was the site of a great number of social events.
Source
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P2525
Date
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1960-1978
photograph
social life
sport
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Title
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Social and Sporting Life
Description
An account of the resource
Items relating to the provision of sporting and social facilities by John Player & Sons for its staff.
In 1906 the company built a recreation ground for its employees to use, complete with club house, at a site on Aspley Lane, Nottingham. Known as the Rec, the site had top-class playing fields which were used for a wide variety of sports.
Photograph
Still images.
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Title
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Photograph from the 1955 Bonus Dance
Creator
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Yvonne Dawson
Date
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1955
Description
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Every year up until the mid-1970s, John Player & Sons gave its employees a money bonus in March. To mark this, a dance was thrown at the Astoria dancehall in Nottingham (this later became the Sherwood Rooms and is now Ocean nightclub).
This photograph is from the 1955 bonus dance and features, amongst others, Leslie and Sybil Briggs (née Simmonds). Leslie worked in No. 3 factory and Sybil worked in the offices. Sybil remembers that the female employees would talk about what they were going to wear to the dance for months in advance, and she would often buy a new dress for the occasion which she would have to pay off in monthly instalments.
1950s
photograph
social life