Never Gonna Give... Never Gonna Give...

30 years ago, almost to the day, I arrived outside this building in a hired mini van with 3 work colleagues. 

We were part of a team who were going to create a new Eating / Drinking Venue in Glasgow and as part of our "grounding", we had to recover interior fittings from here to take to the new venue. 

As we arrived, another team were exiting the building, with a bigger van and more men.  They greeted us as they left - "we'll leave you to lock up".... 

and in we went. 

Four floors of Disco rooms, balconies, discarded LP's and Singles, posters, lights, chairs, beer glasses.   Everything all over the floor.  Mirrors and speakers ripped off the walls.  It looked like it had been trashed. Recently.  

It had.  As we had arrived, the gang who were raiding the place and removing anything they could fit in the van that they thought was worthwhile. 

We just thought they were in to "do a job". 

That was pretty much how life in this part of the Country went for us for the next couple of years 

:-)