Thank you yes will do that and see what the companies have to say, i did work for 1 company up there during the hols when i was at college but dont know if they are there anymore [only just moved back to the area].
Yes i remember Tony Wooldridge vaguely, i remember our main tutor [cant remember his name but can see his face in my mind] getting the whole group together on the first day and giving us a speach about how aircraft engineering was the most important engineering there was and we all had to accept a great responsability doing it.
There was also a cessna 150 in the workshop which came from norwich airport which we worked on and i think it was a skeet helicopter also.