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Didcot powerstation

I saw on the news earlier that this morning they blew up the last of Didcots cooling towers the demolition went ok but the dust cloud caused a flashover in the substation that is still used to supply parts or maybe a

all of Oxfordshire I bet the grid engineers were tearing there hair out after last weeks events

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0 Roy Bowdler over 4 years ago

I posted the material below in another thread last year. It is history now, but the National Coal Board offered the majority of Engineering Apprenticeships and Graduate Engineer training schemes in some parts of the country. Mining was also one of the cornerstones or our national prosperity through history.

I hope that we have a better quality of argument, than throwing tabloid style abuse at political leaders. For the record, I agree with the remarks recently attributed to HM Queen.

His father David…became a brilliant electrical engineer working for the war effort… His mother was a female scientist, who later became a maths teacher… When the couple met, David Corbyn was an engineering apprentice living at his parents’ home… the Corbyns moved to Wiltshire, where David worked as an electrical engineer for Westinghouse Brake and Signals in Chippenham… In 1956, the family moved to Shropshire…Those surroundings helped nurture in Jeremy and his brothers a creative, inquisitive streak. Edward, the eldest brother, became a test engineer on Concorde, built a forge in the garden and tinkered with cars; Piers, who would become a meteorologist, constructed devices to study the solar system; Andrew, the second brother, became a geologist but later died….; Jeremy was the least scientific of the four, preferring to read.(source Daily Telegraph)

One our most vituperative recent contributor’s to these forums, a veteran IEng who in resigning complained of serious mistreatment both personally and for his category, was I understand for a time mentored by David Corbyn, which may have influenced his arguments.

I also spoke recently with someone who was at Grammar School with Jeremy, although not a friend. Coincidentally, I attended a reasonably nearby Comprehensive (ex Secondary Modern) some years later and the two are now linked in an academy foundation. He remembered Jeremy as a “difficult boy” with his own unpopular (in that school at least) left-wing ideas. Had he been more conventional and developed similar aptitudes to his siblings, then perhaps this thread would involve our leaders partaking in a lusty chorus of; “ Jeremy Corbyn! - He’s one of our own!” ?
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0 Roy Bowdler over 4 years ago

I posted the material below in another thread last year. It is history now, but the National Coal Board offered the majority of Engineering Apprenticeships and Graduate Engineer training schemes in some parts of the country. Mining was also one of the cornerstones or our national prosperity through history.

I hope that we have a better quality of argument, than throwing tabloid style abuse at political leaders. For the record, I agree with the remarks recently attributed to HM Queen.

His father David…became a brilliant electrical engineer working for the war effort… His mother was a female scientist, who later became a maths teacher… When the couple met, David Corbyn was an engineering apprentice living at his parents’ home… the Corbyns moved to Wiltshire, where David worked as an electrical engineer for Westinghouse Brake and Signals in Chippenham… In 1956, the family moved to Shropshire…Those surroundings helped nurture in Jeremy and his brothers a creative, inquisitive streak. Edward, the eldest brother, became a test engineer on Concorde, built a forge in the garden and tinkered with cars; Piers, who would become a meteorologist, constructed devices to study the solar system; Andrew, the second brother, became a geologist but later died….; Jeremy was the least scientific of the four, preferring to read.(source Daily Telegraph)

One our most vituperative recent contributor’s to these forums, a veteran IEng who in resigning complained of serious mistreatment both personally and for his category, was I understand for a time mentored by David Corbyn, which may have influenced his arguments.

I also spoke recently with someone who was at Grammar School with Jeremy, although not a friend. Coincidentally, I attended a reasonably nearby Comprehensive (ex Secondary Modern) some years later and the two are now linked in an academy foundation. He remembered Jeremy as a “difficult boy” with his own unpopular (in that school at least) left-wing ideas. Had he been more conventional and developed similar aptitudes to his siblings, then perhaps this thread would involve our leaders partaking in a lusty chorus of; “ Jeremy Corbyn! - He’s one of our own!” ?
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