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The Retirement Thread

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bigleggy
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My first office is a World Heritage site..........at least it used to be. They were threatening to remove the Liverpool Skyline status from World Heritage because we dared to redevelop some derelict Docks a couple of miles away that hadn't been touched since WW2.
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Lots of locations here, hardly any remain
1) British Twin Disc, Strood (holiday jobs) - demolished & replaced by a business estate
2) Building Site, Strood - care home 'built' and still there *
3) Kimberley Clark, Larksfield (holiday jobs) - demolished, now a housing estate

4) (first real job) Vero Electronics, Chandlers Ford - 3 different buildings over 11 years. All demolished & replaced by newer business estate and a mega DHL warehouse
5) Digital, Whiteley - now a fully built business park & housing estate
6) Digital/Compaq Reading - demolished - now housing and 'modern' business park
7) HP, Bracknell - demolished, now housing
8) HP, Cupertino - now the Apple HQ
9) HP, Sunnyvale - now all Amazon

Actually, in my time building & developing, I think the care home may be the only tangible thing left. Any of the SW or systems I developed or implemented have all been superceded.

Here's the care home, built 'summer of 75'.

ThorntonRunner
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Worked for same company entire working life at same site - when I was first there it was a large GEC site that gradually became a general industrial site. However it was originally the site the government provided to Frank Whittle early in WW2 for the development of the jet engine. It could claim to be the world's first jet engine manufacturing site
jda
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My past offices include some historic buildings, it was a bit of a quid pro quo with the organisation keeping them maintained in exchange for low/no rent. Shockingly poor offices though, cold and badly organised.
ThorntonRunner
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Whittle's office block was demolished and replaced by identikit industrial units about 10 years ago. His manufacturing block is still there used as warehousing
Muttley
Muttley
12 Feb
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This is the building where I used to work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Park#

jda
jda
12 Feb
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ok then here are three places I have worked at in the UK:







None of them persist as a scientific institute nowadays.
TROSaracen
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:-) That last one I can almost see Shaggy, Scooby and the gang pulling up outside, as a crack of lightning strikes.....
Sigh
Sigh
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jda would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids.
jda
jda
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The lightning conductor has not recently been tested (or perhaps it has, and worked so well that no-one noticed).

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