Since this column started two years ago to mark our 30th anniversary, it has been illuminating to look back to the early days of HCB and see how little has changed.
Back in 1981, HCB published a joint November/December issue, bumper in size for the time – although the 44 pages looks pretty slim when set against today’s magazine.
The October 1981 issue of HCB concerned itself largely with liability, and in particular the likelihood that conventions would be introduced to put in place systems by which compensation could be provided to innocent victims of incidents involving dangerous goods.
It is said that one normally realises that time is passing once policemen start looking young. Having got used to that, one then realises that one has somehow become older than the world’s leading politicians.
We are not quite old enough to remember ourselves, but we learn from the May 1981 issue of HCB that bulk liquids storage activities on the UK’s east coast began as long ago as 1929,
Looking back through the old issues of HCB, one is struck not only by how familiar a lot of the discussion is, but also by how the focus of the magazine has shifted over the years.
We are not quite old enough to remember ourselves, but we learn from the May 1981 issue of HCB that bulk liquids storage activities on the UK’s east coast began as long ago as 1929,
One of the joys of revisiting the archive is digging out articles written by old friends in the industry. 