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Milton Keynes has been added to the growing number of places you can take a virtual tour of via Google's Street Map facility.

Which saves me a job. I'd been meaning to take a picture of this place for ages as it must surely be added to the pantheon of sacred places for anybody who has ever twiddled a spanner or more likely sworn creatively at a stuck fastener.

I regularly pass by, it's on the way to my local sorting office so I've been past twice this week already to pick up the latest copy of Sideburn and then my new torque wrench. But my initial encounter was the first of a regular visit way back when I was driving a 7.5 tonne truck, picking up waste office paper for recycling.

Naturally the roller door on the loading bay glided upwards with beautifully lubricated precision and the place smelled awesome - it fair swells a man's heart to draw in a lungful of the heady brew.


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