My Idea of Hull

[Mich the Tester]

Runcorn.....I'd blocked that one out of my memory. Rockcliff computers and working for the biggest permie I've ever worked with/for. The only contract I've ever walked from!

I only ever knew that place from the motorway services. What were they back in the 70s? Granada, Rank?

[Netraider]

Bedford followed by Shoeburyness...

[Old Hack]

I should add Maidstone to the list too.

[Mich the Tester]

Bedford followed by Shoeburyness...

Bedford's not as bad as it's made out to be. It has a college of higher education (that's a polyversity for thickos) with 4 times as many women as men.

[Alias]

Preston

[Pogle]

Lol, are you saying that you hated subsidised food from Nationwide kitchen? Assuming you worked there

There is no subsidised canteen where I am working, if anything the cafe in the building is wildly overpriced.

[shaunbhoy]

I only ever knew that place from the motorway services. What were they back in the 70s? Granada, Rank?

They were Rank then and they still are!!!

[Mich the Tester]

They were Rank then and they still are!!!

Oh no, in my day (I decided to use that phrase once in my life!), a trip to the motorway services was a special treat, we enjoyed it! A big heap of coagulated chips, some stodgy batter with a trace of haddock hiding somewhere inside, a big bottle of Sarsons on the table, a salt pot that fell open if you turned it upside down and shook it and a vague smell of diesel in the mushy peas and we were happy. It was tulip, but we were happy! Actually, no, it was just tulip.

[BoredBloke]

Swindon is rubbish also. The old town is ok but the reast of it. My first and second contracts were there - PHH and Raychem

[mudskipper]

Worst was in Theale - Theale itself was OK, but I was stuck in a portacabin in an empty warehouse with lots of bobs who liked to heat up their curries in the tiny unventilated kitchen. Afternoons really were hellish.