Formal reunion dinner for ex-ICI Grangemouth chemical plant workers

Former workers from the old ICI chemical plant in Grangemouth are being invited to a reunion 25 years after the chemical manufacturing company departed the town.

The site employed workers from a wide area, including Stirling and Clackmannanshire, and The Friends of Grangemouth ICI (FOGIS for short) are hoping to organise a formal reunion dinner five years on from their last get-together.

All former ICI employees who at one time worked at the Earl’s Road site or still work there under new owners, can meet up for the informal dinner on Friday, April 28 next year at the Macdonald Inchyra Hotel.

ICI owned the site from 1928 to 1993. At its peak it employed over 2000 people. ICI itself, once the largest chemicals group in Britain, no longer exists having been taken over by a Dutch company in 2007.

FOGIS organising group member Maureen Burns, who worked at the site from 1970 till 2002, said the reunion would be a “great opportunity to get together with old friends, swap reminiscences and stories and renew old acquaintances”.

The cost of the dinner will be £40 and it will begin at 7pm.

Pete Williams, another long serving former ICI employee, added:” We are very keen to contact as many of those who might be interested as possible but we only have limited contact information from the past.”

Those interested should contact Maureen Burns for more details or book a place by emailing: mpburns@ blueyonder.co.uk or contact details can be registered at Grangemouth Heritage Trust at Tel 01324 666603.