Where do you / did you work in leeds?

PC - Dublin · Post by **PC - Dublin** » Fri 07 Dec, 2012 9:35 am

Also in 1976 and part of 1977 in Powell St. Halifax (my first job).

Si · Post by Si » Fri 07 Dec, 2012 10:15 am

Dixie wrote: I also worked at Glendennings Containers in the 1980s when Barry Glendenning was the boss and his brother-in-law was the works manager. There was also an engineering company called Revoc Engineering in the same building. I worked in the office and never went in the works but I saw all the brightly painted oil drums coming out of the works. Barry's son came to work there just before I left. Hello Dixie. I might remember you! Barry is now retired, and his brother-in-law, Norman, sadly died in 2005. An obituary can be found at www.hmsneptune.com/normanwalton.htm Revoc Engineering was replaced by Glenpac (Plastic Container Recycling) Ltd in about 1994 (a subsidiary of Glendennings.) The business closed in 2009.

yorkiesknob · Post by **yorkiesknob** » Fri 07 Dec, 2012 10:50 am

Start doing my time with Dowsett, M62 construction Gildersome to Chainbar 1969. Then Simm Sons and Cooke, next stop Mary Harrison's. Fled the nest ,landed in Africa worked in several countries. Late 70s ended up in Aussie and still here, digging holes and filling them in.

Richard A Thackeray · Post by **Richard A Thackeray** » Fri 07 Dec, 2012 8:06 pm

Circa 1986 - 1987 in the photographic lab down on the Crown Point Trading estate, on Junction Street(Hemsworth Photo Finishing, trading as 'Foto Processing')It was a very busy operation when I started, with perhaps 8-9,000 films arriving in the evening on an average day!!And, of that 8-9,000, perhaps 5,000 were 24 hour service, that had to be delivered as far afield as Birmingham & Bristol by mid-morning the next day!!One man owned the entire lot when I started, quite a few of the 100 (or so) shops were owned too!! -not leased/franchisedEventually, before I left, he sold it to a management buyout for in the region of £10,000,000!!! (this was about 1992)Sadly the mass takeup of digital sealed the fate of the compant (& others like it)I remember the (Kodak & Agfa) reps bringing early digital cameras around, & stating that they'd not really catch on, especially for high-quality work, as to equal a decent SLR (& 100ASA) film a digital camera would need to be at least 20 megapixel................. little did they know/think.................Now, I believe the buildings been split (Bensons Beds, & Pets At Home??)

Tyke · Post by **Tyke** » Fri 07 Dec, 2012 10:01 pm

British Gas in its many forms ( I actually started when it was NEGAS) working on gas pressure reduction systems and gas holders from 1970 to 2002. I joined just before natural gas and had many happy times.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 07 Dec, 2012 11:07 pm

RichT wrote: Now, I believe the buildings been split (Bensons Beds, & Pets At Home??) I may be wrong RichT, but incredibly for property so new I believe that Foto Processing was demolished and replaced by a brand new building of which the Benson's Beds is a large part. There's summat very sadly wrong when consideration can even be given to scrapping places as new as that. Its happened in many places in Leeds, for exapmple the two places at the bottom of Park Row - both lovely buildings in their own right, but was there anything wrong with their predecessors ?? Likewise the office block corner of King Street/Park Place.

liits · Post by **liits** » Sat 08 Dec, 2012 12:10 am

Quote: .... There's summat very sadly wrong when consideration can even be given to scrapping places as new as that. Its happened in many places in Leeds, for exapmple the two places at the bottom of Park Row - both lovely buildings in their own right, but was there anything wrong with their predecessors ?? Likewise the office block corner of King Street/Park Place. Demolish and re-build stunts such as this may become a thing of the past. At the moment, several buildings in London are in the process of being “re-molished” [you couldn’t make it up]. Everything except the framework of the building is demolished / removed and then rebuilt from that.Apparently, its easier to get planning permission [in some London Boroughs] to do this than to demolish and completely rebuild.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Sat 08 Dec, 2012 12:37 am

Norwich union building? Lasted 20y ears too long!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 08 Dec, 2012 9:03 am

Cardiarms wrote: Norwich union building? Lasted 20y ears too long!

Indeed Cardiarms - there are certainly exceptions to every rule as you say My general observation was about the financial craziness of demolishing something which is structurally sound, even if is is one of Prince Charles's famous "carbunkles."

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 08 Dec, 2012 9:08 am

liits wrote: Demolish and re-build stunts such as this may become a thing of the past. At the moment, several buildings in London are in the process of being “re-molished” [you couldn’t make it up]. Everything except the framework of the building is demolished / removed and then rebuilt from that. One classic case of that process is rather pleasing though - it was done many years ago - and that is the former Bardon Chambers in Infirmary Street. The entire elegant frontage was shored up while the remainder behind was totally rebuilt and the building was renamed "Goodbard House" - a nice reminder of its history.