{"id":648,"date":"2023-08-19T14:12:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T14:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/?p=648"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:37:13","slug":"istels-10th-anniversary-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"ISTEL&#8217;s 10th Anniversary &#8211; 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Probably due to the sound based of BLSL. and the people who worked there, ISTEL grew rapidly from its formation in 1979  and reached its 10th Anniversary in 1989 a leading, thriving Computer Services organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The management of ISTEL recognised the changes and effort of the staff of who drove the company forward over those 10 years and presented a small souvenir gift to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We are pleased to say that it appears that many ex-ISTEL staff still have those souvenirs and we have reproduced the gift content as a memory of that event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Visit the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/?page_id=345\">ISTEL Timeline<\/a><\/strong> page to see this memory and, if you can, send us your thoughts and memories of ISTEL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJC-011-1024x905.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-650\" width=\"768\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJC-011-1024x905.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJC-011-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJC-011-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJC-011-1536x1357.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DJC-011-2048x1809.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably due to the sound based of BLSL. and the people who worked there, ISTEL grew rapidly from its formation in 1979 and reached its 10th Anniversary in 1989 a leading, thriving Computer Services organisation. The management of ISTEL recognised the changes and effort of the staff of who drove the company forward over those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rememberistel.redditchheritage.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}