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27 October  2005: demise of Lucy's engineering plant

Chris Brooke's excellent site The Virtual Stoa has pictures of Lucy's engineering plant, in Jericho in Oxford, now rapidly in demise, as it waits to be sold off: for more high-price housing, I presume. 

Between 1992 and 1995, I used to stand outside the plant for many weeks, sporadically selling Socialist Worker. Friends tell stories about one time when we were there and I heard a dog barking, which was enough to make me cower: it turned out to be just a pooch. 

By the end of the 1990s, I knew many of the stewards there, including one who had a lucrative second career as a band manager. Friends wrote SW workplace bulletins, eventually depositing a run of them in the Oxford library, where there was already a long run of Lucy's bulletins, the previous incarnation having been written by members of the Communist Party as far back as the 1930s.