Broadgate

For a long time.

So yes, I joined in 89 when the late 80s in those days, I mean, Broadgate was, I went to the groundbreaking at Broadgate.

It was boom time in the 80s.

The market was absolutely thriving.

There's a nervousness around going into, you know, north of the Clerkenwell Road and then, you know, up into Shoreditch.

But I think now with the areas around Broadgate filling up, a lack of space available, not everyone wants to pay £130 a foot.

So I think it's going to be really good.

I think next year we'll see more interest in...

London suffered the noisome stench arising from the great number of the dead.

The Broadgate development, um, which, uh, you know is on the northern fringe of the city of London, is on a site, uh, which was called the New Churchyard in the early modern period.

It was founded in 1569 to take plague burials.

It was used in every successive plague, and indeed in all the intervening years.

Uh, and certainly a lot of people were being buried there.

Every time there's been excavation on that site, both when they put through Broad Street the overground railway line, when they dug the underground, and when they demolished the station in order to build Broadgate itself, they found large numbers of bodies.

[sombre music] In October, Joseph Penny died.

The shovels and basket that were the tools of the grave maker's trade were returned to his mother.

So, yeah.

So, and one of the advertisers in one of the magazines that I worked on at the time was Broadgate Estates.

And so I went and met the guys from Broadgate and they were like, do you want a job? And yeah, the rest is history, I guess.

So what was the first job that you had within the sector?

So it's based at an estate called Regent's Place.

I know Regent's Place.

So just off Houston Road, amazing British land site.

So back in the days of Broadgate Estates, joined as assistant estate manager and then became estate manager and just worked under brilliant people.