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.
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)
Mike Davis (Owner)
Material
Metal
Plastics
Dimension
Diameter: 55mm
On display?
No
Inscription
IT'S TIME TO
GET AHEAD
WITH
BROOK STREET
GET AHEAD
WITH
BROOK STREET