Originally Posted by
BAeuro
A very interesting read.
It’s awful to think that the building was ‘illegally’ gutted for anything valuable. The security company must have been in serious trouble.
What shocks me the most is how everything was just left, like there was an evacuation and it was never safe to return. All the cabinets with paperwork and files just left. Why weren’t they cleared out?
I’ve spent the last few days reading/researching all about Cranebank and the refurb of TBC. There’s some interesting stuff out there.
Having been in Cranebank, I'd say that anything with value had been taken out from the building when it moved to TBC and TBA. The mock-ups in the SEP hall, with the possible exception of the 737 fuselage, were way past their sell-by date: the seats you can see in the video are mightly old, the mock-ups are just wood and metal with residual (i.e. scrap) value and the furniture, well, it was quite old. I worked in an office in Waterside that had received desks and chairs salvaged from Cranebank and the asset labels on my desk still had the Landor logo! This was in 2018.
The stuff that really costed $$$ were the sims and they are all in TBA now, I think a few FTers have been there.
You're right about J & K, oopsie!