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Description: | Incomplete sequence of issues of employees newsletter, produced by the GKN Ltd Publicity Department at Hadley Castle Works. 'Sphinx' was published three times a year, in Spring, Summer and at Christmas, and from Spring 1974 was the only employee publication, after 'Sankey News', published at Bilston, was discontinued.
Issues contain a general report on activities of the GKN Group; news about appointments both to the GKN Board and within GKN Sankey Ltd; and news items about Sankey products. However, the main focus of the magazine is on the employees, and each issue contains a large number of photographs of workers in different departments and company Works. There are articles submitted by employees about hobbies, interests and holidays, as well as short stories and poems. Another major focus is on the activities of the company's sports and social clubs and groups, including the football club; cricket club; fencing club; angling club; motor club; cage bird society; male voice choir; judo club; chess club; bridge club; and other interest groups. News about sporting achievements and Children's Sports Day is also included. Other regular features are 'Ladies Circle' comprising houshold, cookery and fashion tips; and prize puzzles and crosswords. There are occasional articles about life at Sankey in the past, and some issues include articles on Black Country history, by permission of the Black Country Society.
Although they only cover a five year period, these magazines are a rich source of information about working life at GKN Sankey Ltd during the early 1970s, and include the names and photographs of many individual employees. Several photographs include black and Asian employees, reflecting the diversity of the Sankey workforce in the 1970s.
Issues consist of:
Christmas 1972
Summer 1973
Spring 1974
Summer 1974
Spring 1975
Spring 1976
Spring 1977
Christmas 1977 | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1972-1977 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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