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Thank you Lyn, I wish I could be certain it was on Branston Street but it’s so long ago now. I was traipsing all over the place back then, going into so many old buildings, up so many creaky old stairs, past so many old doors…I enjoyed my time working there, though.

Ha!!

As a lad in the 1980s I worked in the Jewellery Quarter for a small manufacturer on Hilton Street. As I was the youngest it usually fell to me to make deliveries and collections around the area, often among the dilapidated Victorian buildings that housed several small businesses within them...

I’d imagine that the ongoing War caused many people to have a “Live for Today” attitude. Can’t say I blame them.

mikeje, thanks for the reply. As I mentioned, in my time there it was a small operation but in its earlier years I have reason to believe it was somewhat larger in terms of staff. If I remember correctly, when I started work there was a manager, estimator and secretary who worked in the ”Office”...

Hello mikejee, I’m very surprised to see this thread and it’s prompted me to register here. I used to work at Keep’s Construction in the late ‘80s to mid ‘90s and occasionally had to do some repair work at Arkinstall’s. Keep‘s was a steel fabricators as you mentioned, never a very big operation...