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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Bill McConnell and Captain Iain Johnston
Dear SCARA Member, More sad news passed on by members of SCARA. Very sadly we have been notified of the death of A.W.McConnell (Bill) on the 22nd September ...
Posted 26 Sep 2018, 12:13 by Mike Chapman
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SCARA Annual Reunion - Thursday 1 November 2018
Dear SCARA Member, We hope that you will be able to join us for the ANNUAL REUNION which this year will be held on Thursday 1st November at the Park ...
Posted 15 Sep 2018, 12:02 by Mike Chapman
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Other SCARA dates
Dear SCARA Members, Two more reunions / get-togethers that may be of interest to you. Please note that there is no need to book, just turn up on the day ...
Posted 27 Aug 2018, 03:11 by Mike Chapman
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Liverpool Reunion 2018
Dear SCARA Member,
We have news from Christine Jones and Joan Squires with details for this years Liverpool Reunion. If you would like to attend please just turn up on ...
Posted 24 Aug 2018, 11:34 by Mike Chapman
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Douglas Dudley-Ward
Dear SCARA Member, Pat Dudley-Ward called yesterday with the sad news of her husbands death on Friday 20th July 2018. Douglas Dudley-Ward had many friends and colleagues within ...
Posted 25 Jul 2018, 09:13 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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