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500 years old this year


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 3:57 pm
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1792 was the start of my company. feels like I've been there since day 1...


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 3:58 pm
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Only 4 years this place, although *cough cough* a company with a similar name and nature of trade was here before a 'misunderstanding' with HMRC killed it.

Last place started out in 1861, but was bought up in the 90's by one that was started in 1834 - oh how we used to mock the 'old boys' next door, until the whole thing was bought up by a real old timer firm who started in 1727 in 2000. You could argue they were bought up, well 83%ish of it in 2008 by the UK.


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 4:08 pm
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I'm self employed. 🙄

If it's the kids' school I do volunteer type stuff at, that opened in 1350.


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 4:25 pm
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No vicars here?


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 4:31 pm
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But it clearly hasn't been a company for all that time come to think of it, so I lose.


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 4:40 pm
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Bodleian?

Yep, though not in one of the nice looking bits!


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 5:02 pm
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East Anglian Real Property Co.limited just folded after 89 years,
But the timing is a bit weird, what with Brexit coming up

So we are finally safe from German invasion or is there a plan B to their cunning Red Roofed Barns

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/revealed-hitlers-plot-invade-england-5040483


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 5:57 pm
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No vicars here?

I'm a Vedic Purohita 🙂


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 6:12 pm
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dragon, you could very well be spot on the money with that guess.


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 6:16 pm
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I was there when they gave out the commemorative 250 years book 🙂


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 6:20 pm
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1807 educational publishing.


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 7:23 pm
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Everyone...Intertek we use your testing services.

Company I work for is a civil engineering firm 151 yrs old.


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 8:22 pm
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current employer only 5 years old, but plenty of chopping up and TUPE involved -most of us worked for a much much older employer and are still in the same posts sat at same desks as we were before current company even ever thought about.

More excitingly, when I was a lot younger I very briefly worked for the Gendarmerie Nationale, which wikipedia tells me is only 2 years younger than the Revolution. But much older still if you consider that the first gendarmes were TUPE'd over from the Marshalcy which started somewhere in the 1100's...


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 8:58 pm
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My own company opened it's doors 6 years ago today. Not the oldest, but I'm possibly the proudest!


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 9:30 pm
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I've done some volunteer work for St John Ambulance, which (sort of!) started in 1099...


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 10:20 pm
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My wife used to work somewhere that started in 1534.


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 10:31 pm
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If only Druid.H was still here


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 10:40 pm
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My wife used to work somewhere that started in 1534.

CofE vicar, then?


 
Posted : 01/03/2016 11:48 pm
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CofE vicar, then?

No, Cambridge University Press.


 
Posted : 02/03/2016 12:05 am
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300 years. But in reality 15 in its current form.


 
Posted : 02/03/2016 2:03 am
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