19 September 1977 - Chester branch as a shy 16 year old straight from school.

I spent 9 happy years there making some lifelong friends who I’ve been able to reconnect with having moved back to Chester four years ago.

From Chester I transferred to Acocks Green Branch, Birmingham in June 1986 & moved to Bennett’s Hill Area Office in April 1990.

I joined Midlands DMC the following year working in Personnel until HR Connect was set up in Hemel Hempstead & I became part of the HRBP team reporting into Canada Square.

For the remainder of my time with HSBC I worked in various roles within HR, based at an office in Birmingham but travelling to Canada Square every week as part of the Graduate Recruitment team & latterly as PA to the Senior HRBP.

In August 2009, after 32 years service, I was made redundant (working in HR was no protection from this fate!!).

I have many fond memories of my time with HSBC & through Horizons I have been able to track what has happened to a number of people I had lost touch with so thank you Martin for all the hours you put in on making this site so successful.