Memory Lane

Met some old work colleagues in a pub in London today, in the area where my oil industry career started in 1982.    St Christopher's Place  looks much the same as you can see in this reflection.
Memories in extras:-
1) In 1982 this was Gulf House, 2 Portman St;  the European HQ of Gulf Oil. In those days it looked like the building you can see reflected in the glass. Now its a glass /concrete building with a fancy lift on the outside
2) When Chevron took over Gulf, in what was then the biggest takeover in history, we were moved to 95 Wigmore St, which did not look like this in 1986. We were moved again to Canary Wharf in 2001 when Chevron bought Texaco. Life went downhill from then on, I much preferred working in the West End.
3) The Jubilee Line which was extended in 1999 from Charing Cross to Stratford and the new stations had these fancy  doors to stop people being pushed into the onto the tracks. Very welcome in rush hour when you were at the edge of the platform, 
4) The Three Tuns - scene of long drunken Friday afternoon lunches in the early days before being sent to Wigmore St. 
5) Les Porte Des Indes- French styled Indian restaurant  that must have been there for ever. Delicious
6)  T Burrows. Really good gentlemen's clothes shop in James St. I bought many items there for various boyfriends,. Cant believe its still there and looks exactly the same as when I last bought a jumper.

Those were the days