Do you, or have you ever, worked in a very famous building?

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I've just lost the best part of a day watching Designated Survivor and it has made me think about all of the behind-the-scenes people who work in The White House, or Buckingham Palace, or any kind of place like that.

Does anyone have any exciting stories of what it is actually like?

I worked at Kensington Palace for 13 years, going back 20 years now but I absolutely loved it and look back on that time with such fond memories. I miss it terribly!

I used to work for a film studio in LA and regularly walked down “New York Street”, my office was blown up in Die Hard and in Fight Club.

I went for an interview at the MI5 building. Just like Spooks from the reception, then disappointedly normal once you got through the revolving entrances...

Yes, have worked at Hampton Court Palace, Tower of London and NHM. My favourite bit is going through doors that visitors can’t. It never gets old! It’s also lovely once the visitors have gone home you can walk through the amazing spaces completely alone.

@district

In some country I believe someone fell in the spent fuel pond (probably tripped over his outsized bowling shoes). I believe he got contamination behind his eyeball and it had to be removed to clean behind... Sweet dreams!

ChiChi Thames House MI5 above ground is pretty standard. Blew ground is where it gets interesting 😁

*below

MOD and FCO.

@Pollaidh SHITTING HELL

A friend worked in Windsor Castle and sang in the chapel. I stayed there once.

toffeepumpkins

I once worked in a cave, does that count?

Oh where? I used to love going to Chiselhurst Caves.

DH worked at the Bank of England for many years, it's an amazing building with beautiful interior garden/quad, (went to a posh reception there) plus a cupola. Apparently the vaults and bullion yard were also quite something.
I worked at Broadcasting House briefly... a rabbit warren of a place away from the posher bits. .
Also in a superb Art Deco Lutyens building in Fleet St.
And the ITN building in Gray's Inn Road, designed by Norman (Lord?) Foster. (It had no internal staircase,was a sort of an empty square built round a huge inner space and an internal glass bridge connected one of the sides to the opposite side)) You can often see shots of it on the News at Ten.

All the government offices I've been in have been pretty shabby inside (except the Treasury building after its refurb). No 10 is particularly disappointing

Loutue so you mush have met Princess Diana!

I used to work behind the big Union Jack doors you see as you come to the Isle of Wight from Southampton.

I worked in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna for a year. And at NATO for five years. NATO used to be a hospital and has huge wide corridors. We used to play cricket in the corridors and one of my colleagues used to go around the building on a small scooter.

I used to work in the Royal Courts of Justice, fascinating building full of history.

Not exciting at all while working there but I used to work in the building next to the MI5 building so I see it in films very often. Makes me happy

liquid are you EH? Or rather HE these days?!

I’m ex EH and as part of my (rather fabulous) role visited and worked in;

Osborne House
Carisbrooke Castle
Dover Castle
Walmer Castle
Deal Castle
Portchester Castle
Battle Abbey & Battlefield
Kenilworth Castle
National Monuments Record

Each and every one absolutely fantastic.

I worked in the Royal Courts of Justice for a while - highly theatrical, very Victorian gothic

I worked in new Scotland Yard

It’s a crap hole

I work in a lovely little museum. It's not very famous but it's a beautiful medieval building that dates back to at least the 1400s.

My Dad used to work at the V&A in London and he loved it. It was always very exciting if they got a visit from the royals, although security was obviously mad.

I worked in Trump tower on 5th Avenue for a year.

I work in the Houses of Parliament. I do have to remind myself what a privilege that is and. It get blasé about it.

It is a complete rabbit warren. I spent my first six months almost constantly lost. Even now when going to parts I haven't visited before I take a map and allow an extra 20 minutes.

There are always quite a few tourists / school parties/ MP group tours in the public parts.

It is as, is well known, in need of repairs!

Happy to answer questions.

I know it’s absolutely not the same as working somewhere famous, but we took a school orchestra to perform are disneyland Paris for a day and had to go ‘backstage’ before the performances, just as normal ‘cast members’ would. It was very odd seeing it from that side and did slightly take the magic away.