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SBD77 17-07-2013 15:44

Fujitsu / ICL Gorton
 
I have been told this building was either the Fujitsu or ICL building yet when i have looked into it on a image search it looks nothing like them

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...518_084523.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031416.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031455.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031432.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031429.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031424.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031423.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031451.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031458.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...c/S1031475.jpg

NorthMancBeds 17-07-2013 21:14

Well in. Unfortunately trashed by gypsys, graf heads and ravers alike. It was designed for Sun Microsystems by Cruickshank and Seward in the 1970s. Quite a slick technology building in its time. ICL had the site next door and eventually became Fujitsu - originally it was Ferranti and was where the first commercial computers were built. The ICL site was the biggest producer of computers in Europe at one point. A bit of a technology hub in West Gorton...

SBD77 17-07-2013 21:26

Cheers NorthMancBeds


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