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GEC Whetstone

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Did/does anyone on here work there?

I worked there between 1980 and 1999 for a builder doing maintenance and new building work.

I worked on Block 72, Block 70 and the one that went up in 1997/98 on the big field next to the railway line.

Just feeling a bit nostalgic all of a sudden.

Oh yeah and does anyone remember the cheese and onion cobs from a grocer's store in Enderbeh, just on the left as you headed down the hill towards EH Smith?

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Did/does anyone on here work there?

Used to try to get them to use a vacuum deposited vapour-polymer coating on anything they had - no one wanted it, it was too expensive compared to the liquid versions.

Always struck me as being a place out of time...in fact anything GEC or Alsthomy did...not like good old Lucas Aerospace - now they really knew how to waste money and increase my monthly bonus! :D

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Probably known as Alsthom now

Well it was the last time I went there a few years ago.

It's on Cambridge Road (if it's still there)

I couldn't remember the name of the road so I went to streetmap.co.uk and entered Dog and Gun Lane (which I knew ran off the road GEC/Alsthom is/was on) and it went straight to the map, no options, ie, Dog and Gun Lane in Whetstone is the only road with that name in the whole country. QI!

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