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Badge - Get Ahead With Brook Street

Object

Badge

Production date

c. 1986

Object number

2024.199

Physical Description

Circular badge, white background with blue and red text.

Object history

Brook Street Bureau is a recruitment agency. It was founded in 1946 by Margery Hurst to supply temporary workers after the Second World War during a time when there were more people available to work.

The street sign logo on this badge and the slogan 'It's Time to Get Ahead with Brook Street' was in use around 1986. In the mid-1980s one in five adults in Hackney were unemployed.

Associated Person

Dinah Morley (Owner)
Mike Davis (Owner)

Material

Metal
Plastics

Dimension

Diameter: 55mm

On display?

No

Inscription

IT'S TIME TO
GET AHEAD
WITH
BROOK STREET