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Sign of the Times

This week I took back the keys from a tenant that had rented a pump depot off our family for 36 years.  It was sad to see at first hand the effect the economic downturn is having on the individuals within companies that are having to face the upheaval of a bolt from the blue.  To see the depot quiet and empty after so many years of industry and work was quite shocking.  The date the shelves had been put up in the stores was April 1978, and now the room was bare.  We talked about the friendships that had been forged over the years working there, and how those relationships would be missed.  I’m sure it’s a situation being played out all over the country but it hits home when speaking to the individuals affected.  As a boy I can remember those workshops being used by my dad’s business. And now there is the question of what to do with them.  And when, and if a new tenant will come along.