News
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World in a Box
We have received the following communication from Martin Orchard about a fascinating video commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the deep-sea container trade in Australia:
Dear David ...
Posted 9 Dec 2019, 12:44 by Mike Chapman
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Flinders Bay model at the Fremantle museum
David Iredale has kindly sent through the following report and photographs covering his visit to the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle, Australia: The SS Flinders Bay Model (wrongly indicated as ...
Posted 2 Sep 2019, 00:03 by Mike Chapman
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BT to move to former Beagle House site
It has been announced that BT (British Telecom) will be moving their HQ from St. Pauls in London to One Braham by the end of 2021. One Braham has been ...
Posted 18 Aug 2019, 12:53 by Mike Chapman
SCARA (ex-staff association) News and Notices
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Roy Coleman
Dear SCARA Member, Tina Osbourne has kindly forwarded the following message received from Susan Coleman.
"My husband, Roy Coleman, father of Hannah and James, passed away on Monday 10th February ...
Posted 19 Feb 2020, 04:55 by Mike Chapman
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Lily Allan
Dear SCARA Member, Very sadly we have been advised by her son Stephen that Lily Allan passed away on Friday 31 January 2020. Lily stayed in touch with many of ...
Posted 3 Feb 2020, 09:38 by Mike Chapman
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Commodore Robert Royan
Dear SCARA Member, We are sorry to advise that Commodore Robert Royan died on 18 January 2020. Norman McConochie writes,'I have just been advised by Bob Royan's daughter ...
Posted 20 Jan 2020, 12:22 by Mike Chapman
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Ian Pedgrift
Dear SCARA Member, We have received sad news of the death of Ian Pedgrift from his wife Margaret. Margaret writes, "sadly I have to inform you of the death of ...
Posted 10 Jan 2020, 09:48 by Mike Chapman
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SCARA update December 2019
(This message has been sent to all SCARA members) Dear SCARA Member, We hope this finds you all in good spirits and looking forward to the festive season. We have ...
Posted 8 Dec 2019, 12:26 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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