I live and work in Coventry on leaving school in 1986 I had interviews at . Alvis Wickmans Massey's TI matrix Peurgeot Jaguar ( Radford Plant ) G.E.C Rolls Royce ( Parkside ) Coutaulds And finally the Dunlop where I got in I'm still there even though the place is now Meggitt but the above list of places have all gone .
i went to Barr's Hill School, the old house used to be the Starley family home. bet they knocked it down. my dad worked at the Standard in Canley, and about the time the plant closed in 1980, he became self-employed. didn't realise at the time that he was probably made redundant, or quit.
I live and work in Coventry on leaving school in 1986 I had interviews at .
Alvis
Wickmans
Massey's
TI matrix
Peurgeot
Jaguar ( Radford Plant )
G.E.C
Rolls Royce ( Parkside )
Coutaulds
And finally the Dunlop where I got in I'm still there even though the place is now Meggitt but the above list of places have all gone .
Brought tears to my eyes, we had such great industries in the city, nearly all were gone.
i went to Barr's Hill School, the old house used to be the Starley family home. bet they knocked it down. my dad worked at the Standard in Canley, and about the time the plant closed in 1980, he became self-employed. didn't realise at the time that he was probably made redundant, or quit.