00:00Anyway, welcome. Thanks for coming along. Pleased to see some old faces. How long has
00:17it been since we've been here? 25 years since we stopped. And some of us were here for 25
00:25years or at least before that. I started away back in 1973 and I was there for 11 years which
00:41are fond happy memories. It's a big experience and it's glad that we are remembering the yard
00:48and unfortunately the people that lost their lives as well which is a sad occasion. But yeah,
00:56this is very nice to see that the history is still being kept here and how Ventas are taking
01:02over and hope they have many years like we did. It's great to see and I just hope it brings the
01:12same amount of investment and opportunity to the current young people in the area that it did to
01:20me. It set me up for life. Wonderful experience. I'm delighted to be back to see what I had. I spent
01:2919 years, 7 months of my life here and I have to say it was very good and it was good for the
01:36economy of the local Inverness, Nairn, Forest and Elwynn structures. So this yard provided a lot of
01:43help for a lot of people at the right time. I enjoyed my life here. You know, it's like every
01:49other job has its good days and bad days but I enjoyed it very much. Hard work but good money.
01:58We're delighted it's been a long time. We've worked at this for nearly three years and doing
02:05things together. A lot of work went into gathering the photographs and selecting the photographs,
02:11making the boards and eventually having the boards installed here on site. Yeah, we're delighted.
02:19To see some of these guys, I haven't seen them since we closed the place 25 years ago so it's nice to see some old faces.
02:29The impact that the yard had on the local community and the economy was incredible at the time.
02:37Providing thousands of jobs. Lots of people came to the area to live in the area. In fact, a lot of these guys here today don't belong to the area.
02:46Originally they came here to work and stayed on. I think a similar thing is going to happen once the
02:53inventors get working. The bliss of the UK will come to the area. It's great, it's enriching and improves the whole area.
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