Brian
Iredale |
Born
at an early age. Brought up mostly in the South of England, but
with a short interlude in Sri Lanka due to my Fathers posting
to that country. Schooldays were followed by nine years of hard
labour working for the Ordnance Survey in Southampton drawing
maps. Finding this rather boring, and with very little prospects
for promotion I changed horses and sought further education at
Liverpool College of Art, studying Interior Design for four years.
After leaving college I worked in Maidenhead for a firm of Architects
for approximately two years, and was working mostly on Department
store developments (C&A); interesting work, but not really
in the field that I had trained for.
This was followed by an appointment with Courage Brewery at Reading
in their Interior Design Department, and set the scene for my
career. By definition all of the work was in the Licensed Trade,
and it was here that I acquired my grounding and knowledge of
that particular trade. Many of the people that I met and worked
withat that time are still working within the Brewing industry,
and I still come across familiar faces from that period.
After a period at Courage I left to join Whitbread, working at
their Kings Cross office in London, and then at their new offices
in Luton. Commuting from High Wycombe to Kings Cross and then
to Luton proved time consuming, and when a job opportunity in
Portsmouth came available I transferred from within Whitbread
and moved house to the Portsmouth area. As a satellite design
department of Whitbread we became a victim of 'centralisation',
and operations were transferred to Cheltenham. Not wishing to
move, and with an attractive redundancy package on offer, I elected
to leave Whitbread and set up my own business.
The company has been successfully running for sixteen years, and
remains firmly rooted in Licensed Trade.
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