Have we all forgotten the LOB (Location of Offices Bureau) and those
cute advertisements on London Subway trains?

During the Seventy's and early Eighties they helped companies leave
London. Indeed that is why Milton Keyes and the enlarged Basingstoke
exist.

By the late 1980s the LOB's role had changed. At that point they were
encouraging companies to move TO London.

One assumes the LOB was quietly put to sleep during the Thatcher years.

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