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The demolition of Beagle House is underwayThe 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
Denise DurrantWe 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
Captain PJ ClarkThe 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
Barbara FryDear SCARA Member, We were very sorry to hear from Tom Fry that his wife Barbara died on the 13th April 2018. Tom says "many of my colleagues in Zimbabwe ...
Posted by Mike Chapman
Spring Soirée 16 May 2018Dear SCARA Member, We are very pleased to advise details for an informal springtime 'get-together' in London on the 16th May. We are hopeful that similar events can/will ...
Posted by Mike Chapman
Vernon Rolls, Tony Doveston & Beryl RatnayakeDear 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
Lou van de VeldeDear 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
C.K.HoDear 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
We've brought together the information about how to order ship DVDs and the OCL book, British Box Business - A History of OCL into a new area of this site.
First Liverpool ReunionThe 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
OCL/P&O Birmingham Reunion 2014The 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
2014 Tokyo ReunionNovember 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
Julia LouppovaMy 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
Nick FrostMany 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
Billy BraggAccording 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
