The Tech!

Michael Alexander · August 27, 2007, 11:26:38 AM

While I was out this morning I took this one.....

Leon Sumter · February 21, 2009, 02:31:06 PM

thanks for this photo Mike. This really brings back memories because this where I spent the last 3 years of my career in OMD. I had a lively big office in the right wing, down right side passage, round corner to right and then into my office.

Michael Alexander · February 21, 2009, 02:42:33 PM

That was also Rick Paley's office many years later, and the same office I went to for my apprenticeship interview....

Leon Sumter · February 21, 2009, 02:56:04 PM

awesome Mike. In fact my classroom kind of adjoined my office, had a window at rear facing the school/Mess.

Michael Alexander · February 21, 2009, 05:47:57 PM

.... and then , the tree;s grew taller, they build a fence..... obscuring the view...... all you would see today is the carpark...... an empty one at that....

Gordon Brown · February 22, 2009, 10:17:26 AM

No technical training going on these days Mike?

Michael Alexander · February 22, 2009, 10:25:16 AM

No more Appies for quite a few years now.....

Leon Sumter · February 22, 2009, 07:53:45 PM

I think this is shocking, that a large institution like Namdeb does not do apprentice training.

Leon Sumter · March 11, 2009, 03:52:08 PM

Mike I looked at a recent google earth view of the tech and I see that there must have been a post '83 addition to the rear of the building which goes to the rear boundary of the tech property. I seem to recall in the early days that there was a driveway all around the actual building.
I also notice that there are ramp ways (wheel chair friendly obviously) on the front stairs that were not there in my day.
What is this old tech building actually used for now these days?

Michael Alexander · March 11, 2009, 05:14:06 PM

I think it is Engineering Projects dept or something to that effect..... There was a building added to the back of the tech in the 80's and then the whole back area was fenced off between the single quarters and the tech, needless to say the appies "created" holes in the fence......

Leon Sumter · March 11, 2009, 08:41:14 PM

thanks Mike for the update on the tech building.

Michael Alexander · March 12, 2009, 06:57:31 PM

Correct that.... MIning Projects...drove past today....

Alfred Boehme · March 12, 2009, 07:33:50 PM

I hear they mite turn the old tech into high school class rooms?

Michael Alexander · March 12, 2009, 08:56:06 PM

No need to.... I heard from a reliable source that the school expects to lose 120 pupils this year due to the VS ....

That should leave in the region of 400 pupils ......

Alfred Boehme · March 13, 2009, 04:21:31 PM

I'm going to re-populate Oranjemund