NottyImp
Vital Football Legend
There's a difference between a career and a job...
That's where I went wrong!
There's a difference between a career and a job...
There's a difference between a career and a job...
Depends on what you determine is the difference? By career I suppose you mean staying in one field of work your entire working life?
I have never been like that. The world moves on and different avenues open. I started in accountancy (at an engineering firm) and when redundancy happened I changed fields into databases and IT (at a marketing firm) and when made redundant I moved into warehousing operations, shipping etc, etc.
I'm not talking about moving into "low non professional" jobs (which is what I assume your post is trying to hint at) that you leave on the Friday and find a new one on Monday. If anything that has only happened (to me) in the times since "more opportunities" arose!!! post mid noughties.
In that era people needed to be flexible. Those 40 year careers working for 1 company were becoming a thing of the past and a lot of people moved from one field to another as they moved from one company to another. As the working world changes new fields of work appear. And back in the nineties especially the working world was changing substantially.
I guess I was ahead of that game back in the 90s. My point was that back in these "dark days" in Lincoln pre Uni and pre "growth", I found no problem getting decent jobs because I was eager to learn new things and did not hem myself in by any particular field of work.
I hope you weren't trying to be as dismissive as your post reads though and will take it as not being so.
The photos below mainly show the area that is now B&Q and Morrisons petrol station. The road that you can see in a couple of photographs is what was Harding Street. There used to be a number of streets of terraced housing in this area that were named after the Duke of Wellington's Generals who had served under him at Waterloo (hence Waterloo Street). They were demolished in the 1970s. I have no recollection of them. Does anyone else? The final photo shows where the rail track used to be as it headed its way into St Marks Station. The area is now almost unrecognisable now from those days.
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There's a definite Dawn of the Dead vibe to photo number 4...Perfect setting for a zombie apocalypse B movie...
Perfect setting for a zombie apocalypse B movie...
I heard that one as well (grain mountain), so maybe there was truth in it, or it was just a well used urban myth.My Dad used to reckon that part of the EU 'butter mountain' was stored in one of those warehouses in this picture (or maybe it was the 'grain mountain'?).
I heard that one as well (grain mountain), so maybe there was truth in it, or it was just a well used urban myth.
The old Rustons Boultham works factories were painted green. After Rustons left they were used to house fertilizer.......or were they? Luckily, they have now been demolished, so we may never know what dark secrets they held!It was a convenient lie to disguise the Soylent Green factory.
Today's pictures show the building on Firth Road that was used by Lincoln Community Enterprise Agency and Lincolnshire Employment Training in the late 80s, early 90s, which is now long since demolished.
Sorry for delay in posting pics. It's taken this long to get over the euphoria of Wednesday and yesterday's emotional roller coaster ride! Will post some more Zombie Apocalypse type photos of Lincoln later in the week.
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That one looks like the type of place the Sweeney or the Professionals would chase the bad guy to before the final inevitable shootout
I do hope Bodie slides over the bonnet of a Ford Capri whilst simultaneously drawing his automatic pistol.