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The airline also owned a Hostel in Cranford that used to house hundreds of both Engineering and General airline apprentices which was in existence until the late 1980s early 1990s when they started winding down their apprenticeship schemes and no longer needed the facility. It had also for a time, been used to house a large number of Metropolitan Police cadets while they trained, whilst also still being used by BA. The Hostel site was sold off in the 1990s [when BA was selling everything off] and for a while was used to house asylum seekers and homeless people [whole families to a room that used to house one apprentice!] until that was shut down. The site is now a 4* boutique hotel [The Heston Hyde Hotel]
The infamous Thorncliffe House.