Where else could you possibly enter a site dedicated to Bristow than at.....
The Staff Entrance
For here is where we enter the headquarters of the massive Chester-Perry Organisation, founded by Sir Reginald Chester-Perry himself. And here one man shows a spirit of defiance, individuality and humour that typifies the human condition in the face of oppression and tyranny. Well, up to the point that the wages come round anyway.
This is the story of that man.
Bristow was drawn by Frank Dickens. He produced more than 14,000 strips since 1961, the majority published in the London Evening Standard between 1962 and 2001. Sadly, his illness in 2010 brought the creation of new strips to a halt but you can still see a different one every day on his website. Frank died on 8 July 2016, aged 84, and the Standard reported it here. There was also an obituary in the Daily Telegraph.
Every page within the Staff Entrance is linked to below and also in the drop-down menu that appears on each page. These pages are part of Guter.org. Nearly all pictures are clickable and will display the full cartoon strip and publication information, and can be freely moved around the screen.
If you wish to contact the author of this site, Anthony Guter, then email here
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| Also in the Staff Entrance | |
About
this web site Origins
of the Bristow cartoon |
Background information about how this cartoon started, appearances in other media, some of the strips that maybe should not have turned out as they did and why this website exists |
Bristow - buying clerk supreme |
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What can we say about the man himself, the buying clerk's buying clerk, the devoted employee who after eight and two thirds years of loyal service is still 18th in line for Chief Buyer. In this section we try to get to the heart and soul of Mr. R. Bristow |
The Soul of a Buying Clerk
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| Life in the dreaded Chester-Perry Building |
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The colossal business empire founded by Sir Reginald, the Chester-Perry empire embraces many diverse businesses. The Head office is a huge, monolithic brick building, parts of which are still being explored, bricked up, flooded by tea trolleys or used for many nefarious purposes. Sometimes people work there as well. |
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the offices
How Big is C-Ps?
The Buying Department The Firm's
Canteen Where is C-Ps located?
The Typing Pool The
House Journal The Sick Bay Other departments The firm's colours Sir Reginald' s standard Sexism in C-Ps The Great Tea Trolley Disaster of '67 Other Disasters The Northern branch Two men in the corridor |
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| Meet some of Bristow's colleagues |
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A mixed bag of crawlers and skivers, drunkards and layabouts, oily little gits and aggressive intolerant pen-pushers. Ah, the joy of office life. |
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| Jones
Dimkins Hewitt |
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| There's more to life than Chester-Perrys - but is it life as we know it? |
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| Myles
& Rudge Gun
& Fames |
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| Even a humble buying clerk may feel superior to some people - here's a selection |
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Bristow cultivates and seems to be on good terms
with the underclass at C-Ps - the tea ladies, the liftboy, the post
boy, the janitors, the switchboard operators and most significantly
the factory workers. Do they regard him as one of their own, or
do they see him as inferior, someone to be pitied rather than respected?
Things are different with the sharp-tongued girls of the typing
pool, who will call him "creep" behind his back. But that
may because he wastes so much of their time with his writings, singing
into the Dictaphone and practical jokes (from Joe's Joke Emporium). |
Miss Sunman |
| The Bosses - a tribute |
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Sir Reginald Fudge Barker Robin Chester-Perry The Lady Chief Buyer Miss Glockling Directors of the C-P organisation Softy Palmer Mr. Flint WJ Turner (the firm's hatchet man) Mr. Wilkington Mr. Taylor
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| What does a buying clerk do when he is not at work? |
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The Sports & Social Club/ |
| Bristow 1962 - April 2001
is copyright ©Associated Newspapers Limited, who have kindly
given their permission for the reproduction of the images in this
website. |
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It's
always busy around the Chester-Perry Building. If its not Messrs
N Walters & Son trying out another desperate business venture,
it's the Blondini Brothers ("Scaffolding to the Gentry")
putting up another floor to the long awaited Myles & Rudge extension.
The Traffic warden dispenses parking tickets whilst the bureaucrats
of various "hi-speed" Government bodies plot to ruin everyone's
life. Its a wonder that Bristow can get to work at all.
Why
does Bristow stick it at Chester-Perry's? He is 18th in line for
Chief Buyer, remember. One day he might actually become Chief Buyer.
If he does then he will join the hallowed ranks of Management at
whom he has spent so much time thumbing his nose (often literally).
Here you will find a few of the people he hopes to rub shoulders
with eventually..