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    O/t fao newcy

    Sorry it's taken a while to answer your question mate ["what the feck do you do for a living"?] but here goes. I work for a company that supplies pollution control equipment to power plants, chemical and cement plants, that kind of thing, anything that is likely to throw $hit up into the air. In terms of size these things range from as big as your house to as big as a couple of South Banks stood end to end. I do the start up and commissioning and organize electrical installation and the efficiency testing.
    I also do regular inspections when the units have been in service for a few years in fact like my buddie that I work with we now have to do everything related to the equipment, back in the day there used to be 180 employees but we are down to just three of us now.

    The best part of the job is of course they have paid for me to travel the world over the last 40+ years [I started in 1973], so you can't argue with that.

    You live up in the Newcastle area correct? Some of the best times I have had on the job were up that way, in the 70's we installed equipment at Lynemouth and Blyth power stations and at North Shields and South Shields incinerators and then went back up over the years for inspection/service duties on those sites. Stayed at the infamous Rex Hotel in Whitby Bay, oh the stories that could [and have been] told. Great days.

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    Just to give you some idea of the sizes involved this photo shows the Pollution Control Equipment and the associated duct work. I haven,t been to this site for a couple of years but it usually takes me 2-3 weeks to complete the inspection. There are 4 other units hidden round the back as well. It's a big baby!

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    Nice one Woody and thanks.

    It was the travelling around the world bit that got me intrigued, you are one lucky bloke in that respect and fair play to that.

    Yeah, I moved to the North East in 2002 and the area you talk about, Whitley Bay is nothing more than a ghost town these days compared to what (the locals tell me) it used to be.

    I would move back home in a flash if I could

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    No probs mate. I have been back up there recently, maybe three years ago and your right generally a ghost town all over! But there again when you look at the hundreds of thousands of jobs that have disappeared over the years it aint surprising.

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    Great to see they are working on the Spanish City. Maybe Whitley Bay won't be so much of a ghost town when that is done. I have a lot of rellies in that area and loved the Spanish City when I was younger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woking88 View Post
    Great to see they are working on the Spanish City. Maybe Whitley Bay won't be so much of a ghost town when that is done. I have a lot of rellies in that area and loved the Spanish City when I was younger.
    Hiya Wokes, nice to see you posting again. Spanish City, remember it well, there was a great chippy just round the corner, used to have my evening meal there many time and make enough profit off my expenses to fuel a good pi$$ up!

    "Those were the days my friend".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woking88 View Post
    Great to see they are working on the Spanish City. Maybe Whitley Bay won't be so much of a ghost town when that is done. I have a lot of rellies in that area and loved the Spanish City when I was younger.
    Wokes, they have talked about the Spanish City reconstruction for years now.

    The hoarding around Spanish City has been there for a very long time, it's still there now

    Look at the hoarding and you will see Spanish City will soon become a cafe/expensive shop/if you can afford it nightlife drink property.

    Ask the North East folk and I'll bet they say f()ck it.

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    Well the chippies still there anyway. But I suspect you are right, sady, about the Spanish City Newcy, the kind of people who made it popular diappeared when the jobs manufacturing jobs went.

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