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I did spend some time at Fulham, mainly working in the Station Accountant's Office (Verbeek ?) - probably in the late sixties. I was seconded there from Nine Elms Gas Works, to help maintain the Station's (financial) ledgers - they were having problems. I think the guy I actually worked with was Len/Les Redpath, his number two was Clive Filkins. I also spent some time working in the Station Engineer's office. I was seconded there on several later occasions when the local wages units were being merged into one at Fulham. Firstly when the Nine Elms unit was moved in and then again when the Kensal Green team was sent there. I was working at Kensal Green and MIll Hill at that time. Even later, I spent time at Mill House with the BPMD (Building and Property Maintanence Department) sorting out a few of their problems - by that time I was based at Monck Street working for the Engineering Director. My final time there was in a period when I was working directly for the Chief Accountant (Ted Day). He used me to close down the various Gas works/Sports clubs etc in the Western half of London (Nine Elms, Kensal Green, Mill Hill, Staines, Southall, Brentford and some aspects of the overall Fulham Complex). I don't recall many of the people in these places as I was being parachuted in to provide emergency cover and/or solve problems and then moved on to other parts of the North Thames Empire to do the same. An incredibly busy time for me, as every month more and more of the senior and experienced managers were retiring or going out on redundancy with early pensions. I would often work at two or three gas works each week. In addition, I was also being used by the Internal Audit Department, pulling a few of their irons out of the fire at that time. I was then based at Carnwath Road. I was back in the old works site at Fulham a few months ago. For some years now it has been sublet out to small businesses while British Gas decide what (if anything) they can do with the site. Many of the old buildings in and around the works entrance are still there (including the LRS building), although the rest of the site has been flattened .
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