Hopefully the pub replacing the tower will be half decent!
Hopefully the pub replacing the tower will be half decent!
I remember going up that tower on a school trip. I remember it seeming like a huge building on a vast site that took ages to get to, but then I had the same feeling about sports day when it seemed to take an age to get to Warwick Uni. The world does seem smaller as you get older, shame.
I didn't realise that the redundancies started that early. My old man worked up there for about 8-9 years until they closed. I remember when he started working there. It paid for a new car and our first foreign holiday. He got a nice pay off and walked straight into another job but i'm sure thousands have struggled to fine jobs. It'll be the same for the Peugeot & Jaguar workers too.
Sad indeed Marty was a massive employer up to the seventies ,then production started in Poland and it was downhill from there ,along with Matrix tools ,The redundancies started aound mid seventies, my old fella went around that time .
Matrix are still running in a fashion matrix lasers http://www.matrixlasers.com. It's run by Paul Henderson who was one of the top bods for Matrix Tools and was also a spy for the government as his work took him abroad on many occasions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...--paul-henderson-bloomsbury-1699-1508406.html
Thanks Rich ,nice bloke as i recall ,used to deliver his milk as a kid . He lived just off cromwell lane ,got hung out by the yanks if memories correct.