Places you have worked

[Andy Allen]

building sites, car showrooms, schools, hospitals, toilets at berkeley nuclear power station, 2 fire stations and from those jobs about 6 firemans bathrooms, kitchen floors ect, 6 water pits for severn trent where the smell of chloride was so over powering we were issued with breathing apparatus, large baths and showers for rugby clubs, gloucester prison, sudleley castle, loads of fish and chip shops and 2 pizza huts, and many more that i can't remember

 

[tungsten tip]

hi phil we never worked there but we spent a lot of time in granellis back in the day

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

:lol: Good breakfast Tommy, monday mornings would not have been the same

 

[tungsten tip]

working on a refurb of the cunard building in liverpool one of the three graces on the mersey river front and grade 2 listed building the tiles we are making good and refixing were first fixed in sand and cement one hundred years ago and are still stuck like you know what to a blanket , if the rebar in the concrete had not rotted they would be good for another hundred . those old fixers knew their game .

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Another testament to the old skills and methods

 

[doug boardley]

had a 3 month sabbatical due to a knee operation, so I went over to Perris Valley in California, was packing parachutes to pay for my jumps, does that count?

 

[enduro]

had a 3 month sabbatical due to a knee operation, so I went over to Perris Valley in California, was packing parachutes to pay for my jumps, does that count?

You were looking for sky hooks...did you find any on the way down..lol

 

[Stewart]

had a 3 month sabbatical due to a knee operation, so I went over to Perris Valley in California, was packing parachutes to pay for my jumps, does that count?

Lol..... I like that... Off work due to knee op, so spend time in California parachute jumping......

 

[doug boardley]

You were looking for sky hooks...did you find any on the way down..lol

hard to find any when your cheeks are flapping over your eyes Andrew:lol:

 

[Spud]

I did a marble job on the QE2 cruise liner we sailed from southhampton to Newyork then from Newyork to Bermuda and back again,tiled a lot of the gentlemans clubs in st james ,Carlton club and the Rac club tiled alot of the top hotels in london back in the 90's and worked for a marble company that mainly worked for cadogan estates which meant we worked mainly around mayfair and belgravia ,done underground stations, hospitals, restaurants, gyms, churchs, sewage works,, golf clubs worked in joburg and in europe too been offered several jobs in nigeria recently but decided against doing them as i have been told there is a lot of kidnapping there at the moment

 

[White Room]

Worked in the Accession Islands for the BBC world service, that was plastering though.

 

[Mike]

Worked in the Accession Islands for the BBC world service, that was plastering though.

my brother in law went there for the day recently :yikes: he's a manager with land and marine and went to price a job there. robson green was there too filming his fishing programme

 

[White Room]

my brother in law went there for the day recently :yikes: he's a manager with land and marine and went to price a job there. robson green was there too filming his fishing programme

It takes about 8 hours for the flight one way and all flights (at the time) were from Brize Norton Oxfordshire and were all military based....called the orange squash express, no booze on the flight.

Your brother in law had a long day then:lol:

 

[Mike]

yeah he flew from brize norton and yes a very long 2 days. all the guys in work were after him when he got back so they can have a job there if they get the contract

 

[White Room]

Lovely place to work and all local labour comes from St Helena on contracts, some great fishing as well as revealed on the Robson programme