To me, Purple was reserved for Motorway Communictions - or potentially major trunk road. With te exception of Scotland when it was also use for street lighting.

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To me, Purple was reserved for Motorway Communictions - or potentially major trunk road. With te exception of Scotland when it was also use for street lighting.

Driving on the A12 going North this morning…

Purple first, followed by orange. Then alternating purple and orange. So colourful! 😂

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Vorboss was pulling in their purple coloured microduct along Ropemaker St in London on Saturday.

When people talk about Ropemaker Street I always think of the old long gone BT building in Bunhill Row as I use to use Ropemaker Street as a shortcut. There also use to be a BT London Front Office (LFO) building in Featherstone Street that I went to a few times over the years.

I was mistaken. It was Chiswell Street coming up the intersection with Finsbury Circus / Moorgate. Close but no cigar for me 😅

I never worked for BT but did do a lot of work opposite them on outsource deals with Global Services back in the day. So I felt like a native at BT Centre. Had a couple of events up in BT Tower which was a nice touch. Think it was Ben Verwaayen hosting at the time.

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I was mistaken. It was Chiswell Street coming up the intersection with Finsbury Circus / Moorgate. Close but no cigar for me 😅

I never worked for BT but did do a lot of work opposite them on outsource deals with Global Services back in the day. So I felt like a native at BT Centre. Had a couple of events up in BT Tower which was a nice touch. Think it was Ben Verwaayen hosting at the time.

Extremely close between Chiswell and Ropemaker Street so an easy mistake. Was never lucky enough to go up the BT tower, the nearest I got was the security people at the bottom where I could get keys to various BT building out of core hours. BT Centre was another thing, worked a lot in there during Ian Vallance's time and knew his chauffeur so often got a ride around the city in his car, it always amazed me he had a garage within the underground car park for his car.

Entertained quite a few international guests in BT Tower over the years. Had a couple of semi-formal dinners where the hosts were on on one ring and the guests on te other, so conversations could only last 30 seconds or so during the meal. Itwas great when somone was having a good few glasses and they stated revolving - if they were standing astride the divde, they would topple over, or if lookig out, and unaware, start to wonder what was happening!

I got handed an award atop the tower way back when .. can’t recall who by though.
A lump of engraved crystal, and a bar of chocolate embossed with a picture of the tower.

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Entertained quite a few international guests in BT Tower over the years. Had a couple of semi-formal dinners where the hosts were on on one ring and the guests on te other, so conversations could only last 30 seconds or so during the meal. Itwas great when somone was having a good few glasses and they stated revolving - if they were standing astride the divde, they would topple over, or if lookig out, and unaware, start to wonder what was happening!

Was that when it was open to the public or when BT had made it and internal only venue?

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I got handed an award atop the tower way back when .. can’t recall who by though.
A lump of engraved crystal, and a bar of chocolate embossed with a picture of the tower.

Last lump of crystal I got when working with BT. More like a lopsided ice hockey puck 🙈😂

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I got handed an award atop the tower way back when .. can’t recall who by though.
A lump of engraved crystal, and a bar of chocolate embossed with a picture of the tower.

Last lump of crystal I got when working with BT. More like a lopsided ice hockey puck 🙈😂

The only issue with that puck is that you can't eat it unlike the chocolate Zarjaz got 😎🤣

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