thanks for posting. i have great memories of this place, i did a beattie apprenticeship starting 2005. i was here for 1 week a month for 2 years and i loved it. i went up about a year ago and couldn't believe the three long buildings were gone and the residential estate right next to it

@christopherhollingworth

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, It surprise to me too but I at least got a road named after me - Hollingworth Close ;-)

0.06 my first job 1978 doing the post at Duncan, Howard Hall and the IT building and we lived at one of the house shown in the Furlong , my late Dad was an instructor there mid 70s to retirement in 90s and barman at the LIV - another lifetime - thanks for sharing

@christopherhollingworth

8 ай бұрын

Hi Michael. Glad you enjoyed the video. Take care. Chris

good video. I started my BT career in BTTC Stone, based in the information room, STB102. (1989)

@christopherhollingworth

Жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, Thanks for your comment. I was at BTTC from 1987ish and left to go to Papua New Guinea in December 1989. Sounds like our paths may have crossed,

@mikewrench4494

Жыл бұрын

my start date was July '89, so yes we were colleagues for a time!

@2wirrallads

5 ай бұрын

yeah i was here too in 1989

My Dad Derek worked at the BT training college in the 80s and 90s as a lecturer. Remember him feeding the enormous koi carp although don’t know where the pond was looking at the footage.

@christopherhollingworth

11 ай бұрын

Hi, Thanks for your comments. I have to admit I don't remember the koi carp! Take care.

i was here 1989 and would like to chat with you. i was the brave guy who tackled the pole climbing when all the others ran away.

@christopherhollingworth

5 ай бұрын

Hi, Thanks for your comment. As I recall the poles were not full size. I think the idea was just to get you happy sitting in the harness.

Remember it well I worked there in 1989 as maintenance electrician part of the team Graham levy was the manager in charge

Thank you for posting such good material. What a huge waste, and what a loss. From birth to dust in my life in Beattie. WW2 huts of Howard Hall and Duncan Hall when I first went to CTS Stone. First, sell-off training. Then, shut it down. I am very grateful that I knew the many good courses at Stone. .

@christopherhollingworth

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for your comments. I think it has been a very significant place to many of us. I have been using the sports centre to play squash, first as a student then as an instructor and finally, before it was closed down, as a member of the public. Nearly fourty years of my life. That's a lot of sweat!

I've never drunk as much beer since or played snooker so late.

Hi Chris, would you mind if I used this video in a talk I'm doing on Yarnfield Park at my camera club, with credit to yourself of course!

@christopherhollingworth

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Nate. By all means you can use the video but can you tell me where you are doing the talk. Regards Chris

@nathanslinn

4 жыл бұрын

I'm doing the talk at my local camera club (Willfield Camera Club) next week. I've actually worked at Yarnfield Park for the last 15 years and have some photographs of the old accommodation block before the housing estate got built.

@christopherhollingworth

4 жыл бұрын

@@nathanslinn Hello Nate, I hope the talk goes well. Any chance that you might share the accommodation block images? I would like to do a Then and Now sequence of shots and append to my video. Incidentally, I can remember, about 30 years ago, watching a general release film which had a short clip filmed under the covered walkways leading up to a block entrance. I can’t remember it’s name but I think it was a London based gangster film. The clip must have been all of 5 seconds long! There are some very interesting photos of BT Technical Training College on the link below if you haven’t already looked. www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/search.aspx?&PageIndex=1&SearchType=2&ThemeID=276#searcharea Regards Chris

@nathanslinn

4 жыл бұрын

@@christopherhollingworth I'd be happy to share the images, is there a contact method I can reach you on?