My first ever report... I'm far to old and porky to go climbing into some of the places you guys get to so please go easy on me 
I have just found these old photos on one of my hard drives... At the time these photos were taken in 2008, my company had worked for Johnsons for 10 years and we still carry out works on all of their sites even now. The building in Bootle was the former head office for the Johnsons Cleaners (The dry cleaning shops) and Johnsons Apparelmaster (The industrial laundry factories) I had permission to be in the building and had permission to take photos (I actually shared them at the time with the IT director!)
These photos were taken 3 days after Johnsons had relocated to their new buildings the Cleaners side to Knowsley and the Apparelmaster side to Fulwood near Preston. It was literally a "Close the doors on Bootle on Friday and open up at the new sites on Monday" scenario
Once they had moved, we were asked to go in to remove all of the old network cabinets and switches etc. and I left some of my lads to do the ripping out, while I had a wander round the place we had cabled for over 10 years as a bit of a walk down memory lane. The cameras were crap back then so go easy!
The shelving in some of the photos is now in my garage full of MK1 Granada parts!
This building was the HQ of Johnson's Dyers and Cleaners in Mildmay Road in Bootle.
The origins of the dry-cleaning business go back to 1817 when Johnson Brothers started in business in Liverpool as silk dyers. In 1920, Johnson Brothers joined forces with two dry-cleaning companies, Jas Smith & Son and Flinn & Son Ltd of Brighton and "Johnson's the Cleaners" was born. In later years the company started to branch into the textile rental business. acquiring the likes of Bourne, Afonwen and the industrial laundry side of Cannon Hygiene.
Public requirements for dry-cleaning started to decline due to many factors, including the smoking ban (no smoke, no smell on your clothes!) and Johnsons finally sold off the business to Timpsons for £8million in January 2017 (2 weeks after we had finished a rollout programme upgrading all of the point of sale tills across over 200 sites all over the country!!) but continued to expand the industrial side with hotel linen rentals, workwear rentals and tablecloths, napkins etc. for many top London restaurants. We now still work for the group and they have over 40 factories from Aberdeen to Cornwall... it certainly puts the mileage on my car!
The Group is all contained under the banner of Johnson Service Group and Johnson Workwear
And excuse the company plug!!
The two photos above are actually taken in the Disaster Recovery Building which was located at the far end of the car park and was demolished about a week after Johnsons left the site
I have just found these old photos on one of my hard drives... At the time these photos were taken in 2008, my company had worked for Johnsons for 10 years and we still carry out works on all of their sites even now. The building in Bootle was the former head office for the Johnsons Cleaners (The dry cleaning shops) and Johnsons Apparelmaster (The industrial laundry factories) I had permission to be in the building and had permission to take photos (I actually shared them at the time with the IT director!)
These photos were taken 3 days after Johnsons had relocated to their new buildings the Cleaners side to Knowsley and the Apparelmaster side to Fulwood near Preston. It was literally a "Close the doors on Bootle on Friday and open up at the new sites on Monday" scenario
Once they had moved, we were asked to go in to remove all of the old network cabinets and switches etc. and I left some of my lads to do the ripping out, while I had a wander round the place we had cabled for over 10 years as a bit of a walk down memory lane. The cameras were crap back then so go easy!
The shelving in some of the photos is now in my garage full of MK1 Granada parts!
This building was the HQ of Johnson's Dyers and Cleaners in Mildmay Road in Bootle.
The origins of the dry-cleaning business go back to 1817 when Johnson Brothers started in business in Liverpool as silk dyers. In 1920, Johnson Brothers joined forces with two dry-cleaning companies, Jas Smith & Son and Flinn & Son Ltd of Brighton and "Johnson's the Cleaners" was born. In later years the company started to branch into the textile rental business. acquiring the likes of Bourne, Afonwen and the industrial laundry side of Cannon Hygiene.
Public requirements for dry-cleaning started to decline due to many factors, including the smoking ban (no smoke, no smell on your clothes!) and Johnsons finally sold off the business to Timpsons for £8million in January 2017 (2 weeks after we had finished a rollout programme upgrading all of the point of sale tills across over 200 sites all over the country!!) but continued to expand the industrial side with hotel linen rentals, workwear rentals and tablecloths, napkins etc. for many top London restaurants. We now still work for the group and they have over 40 factories from Aberdeen to Cornwall... it certainly puts the mileage on my car!
The Group is all contained under the banner of Johnson Service Group and Johnson Workwear
And excuse the company plug!!
The two photos above are actually taken in the Disaster Recovery Building which was located at the far end of the car park and was demolished about a week after Johnsons left the site
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