News
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The demolition of Beagle House is underway
The first reports that the demolition of the former London HQ for Overseas Containers Limited, P&O Containers and P&O Nedlloyd appeared on the PONL Facebook group just over ...
Posted 2 Sep 2017, 09:27 by Mike Chapman
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Denise Durrant
We have received the sad news via the PONL Facebook group that Denise Durrant has passed away. Sim Coenradi very kindly passed on a translation of the original announcement which ...
Posted 29 Jul 2017, 12:16 by Mike Chapman
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Captain PJ Clark
The following sad news has been posted on the Bay Boats (ex-sea staff) Facebook group by Rob Gurney (who in turn received the news from Ian Walters and Derek ...
Posted 25 Jun 2017, 11:49 by Mike Chapman
SCARA (ex-staff association) News and Notices
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Vernon Rolls, Tony Doveston & Beryl Ratnayake
Dear SCARA Member, It is with regret that I have the following messages to circulate to the Membership. 1. Vernon Rolls died 28 February 2018 Vernon's son John has ...
Posted 8 Apr 2018, 09:20 by Mike Chapman
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Lou van de Velde
Dear SCARA Member, Very sadly we have been advised of the death of Lou van de Velde on Thursday 22nd February 2018. The funeral will take place on the 28th ...
Posted 27 Feb 2018, 13:42 by Mike Chapman
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C.K.Ho
Dear SCARA Member, SCARA Committee Member Chris Evans has received sad news of the death of C.K.Ho who passed away on the 17th February 2018. C.K.Ho ...
Posted 22 Feb 2018, 12:08 by Mike Chapman
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Kochi-san
Dear SCARA Member, Janette Rawlinson has forwarded the following message from Kijima-san with sad news of the death of Kochi-san who will be remembered by many of our ...
Posted 13 Feb 2018, 04:19 by Mike Chapman
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New Year SCARA update
Dear SCARA Member, We hope this message finds you well and not too exhausted from the Christmas time festivities. We have just a few messages / reminders for you.*** If you ...
Posted 6 Jan 2018, 09:39 by Mike Chapman
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Reunion Reports
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First Liverpool Reunion
The reunion did in fact take place at long last! Eighteen of us attended at the William Gladstone in Liverpool on Saturday 18 April 2015. We had apologies from a ...
Posted 30 Jul 2015, 13:10 by Mike Chapman
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OCL/P&O Birmingham Reunion 2014
The Annual Reunion for Birmingham was held on Saturday 8th November 2014 – despite the horrendous weather in the morning we had a good number of people turn up (30) and ...
Posted 6 Jan 2015, 14:28 by Mike Chapman
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2014 Tokyo Reunion
November 2014 saw a long-wished reunion in Tokyo: Geoff Bolton, OCL/P&OCL veteran of thirty years from the 1967 startup of the OCAL head office in Sydney, moved ...
Posted 29 Nov 2014, 13:42 by Mike Chapman
Where are they now?
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Julia Louppova
My name is Julia Louppova and I am a former PONL Russia team member,I joined P&O Nedlloyd Moscow in November 1998 as an Administrative Assistant. I was soon ...
Posted 31 Jan 2017, 13:40 by Mike Chapman
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Nick Frost
Many thanks to Roger Brown, Mick Gander and Adrian Malupa for identifying the actor, screenwriter and producer Nick Frost as a former colleague who worked in the Hainault office for ...
Posted 26 Oct 2015, 11:48 by Mike Chapman
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Billy Bragg
According to his biography ("Billy Bragg: Still suitable for miners" by Andrew Collins), the British singer-songwriter left school to work for Overseas Containers Limited (OCL) in London ("at the ...
Posted 30 Jan 2015, 12:19 by Mike Chapman
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