[HPforGrownups] Re: Vernon's office

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 50170


On Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, at 16:12 Europe/London, Lurker#3412 wrote:

> <snip>
> What I do find odd is that there's a baker's shop opposite his office.
> It's a building with at least nine floors and has its own car park. I
> would have expected to find it on an industrial estate/ business park 
> rather
> than apparently in the middle of town.
> ~Eloise
>
> I had always assumed that it was in the lobby or lunch area of another 
> building. Is this probable in England? I know that where I live the 
> industrial areas (if they are large) have small sandwhich shops or 
> delies (sp?). After all, if there are plenty of business types about, 
> a bakery could make a good revenue.
>

For Eloise:  I wouldn't necessarily expect an office building as 
described above to be in a business park or industrial estate - though 
obviously, it could be.  In my home town, while there is an industrial 
estate on one side of town, there are plenty of offices in the middle, 
too, several of them with their own car parks.   Not many of them have 
nine floors, but the Kodak building is an honest-to-goodness tower 
block.

It might be slightly off-key to have a company that 'makes drills' with 
an office in the middle of town, but I dare say that might depend on 
how old the company is.  If Grunnings has been around for a long while, 
it could easily have town centre offices.

For Lurker#3412: I would expect there to be some sandwich shops, small 
restaurants etc in any industrial estate, but I think these would be 
independent of the offices.  A Lunch area/cafeteria/canteen which 
belonged specifically to one office would be unlikely to be visible 
from the street, and would not be referred to as a bakery.  
Occasionally you might find that in a large block, the ground floor 
level would be let to small service businesses such as bakeries, and 
the upper levels would be offices.

Pen