WE’VE seen Neilsen staff enjoying dinners and attending a presentation - this picture shows some of them at work.
Women in the typing pool at the market research firm are busy at their desks soon after it moved to Oxford in 1940. As we have recalled, the firm had offices in St Aldate’s and Ship Street, before moving to London Road, Headington, in 1957. The picture comes from Allan Webb, of Redditch, Worcestershire, whose wife Gladys worked for the company.
He writes: “She is in the middle of the three with their backs to the window. Mrs Gomm is the boss at the front.” Four other names are written on the back of the photo – Jean Buckingham, Freda Zanoncelli, Dorita Holt and Doris Canning.
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