| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| July 2017 |
Information from: Allan Brown |
 | | Ken Fearns |
| | Ken carried out his National Service in Singapore. On his return he worked on telegraphs before joining the fitting teams. His next step was construction before moving to exchange maintenance at Sale ATE. His final move was to Trafford and Longford where he carried out TO(a) duties. He remained at Longford until he retired. Ken was one of the few people to be awarded The BT Imperial Service Medal. |
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| July 2017 |
Information from: Ron Dawson & Mike Norris |
 | | Paul Reay |
| | Paul spent most of his BT life working in Dalton on the 3rd Floor, Dial House. |
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| June 2017 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Jim Purvis |
| | Jim worked in Manchester on External Planning. He spent his last 15 years of employment at the Training School in Didsbury as Instructor on UG installation. |
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| April 2017 |
Information from: Ged Morris |
 | | Lol Williamson |
| | Lol will be widely and greatly remembered as both secretary and chairman of the Manchester Central Internal branch of the POEU / NCU.
Before his Union duties, Lol worked on Trunk Auto rota duties in Rutherford House, Manchester.
Following his Union duties, Lol was a manager in Dial House. Lol was also one of the founders of BTMRstaff. |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher |
 | | Colin Cordon |
| | Colin worked latterly in Stockport RSC and retired about 20 years ago. |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Alan Collinge |
 | | Neil Higgins |
| | Neil spent the later half of his career working for Cellnet/O2 most will remember him from his time in Piccadilly exchange where he worked until the early 1980's |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Bill Bailey |
 | | Dave Robinson |
| | Dave was a T2A on Subs Maintenance back in the 70's on Longford, Trafford and Chorlton areas and transferred over onto Sales for several years before leaving the firm and going self employed. |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Pete McDougall |
 | | Pete Carruthers |
| | Pete was a senior manager in BT Managed Network Services with staff based in Manchester. He passed away at his home in the Lakes. |
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| Febuary 2017 |
Information from: Bryan Roberts |
 | | Bill Bunker |
| | Bill was a larger than life character who worked in Dial house on Private Wires for many years. He continued his work with Openreach on the area his main focus was still Private Wires as one of the few people left with the required expertise. |
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| January 2017 |
Information from: John Regan |
 | | Tommy Hall |
| | Tommy spent all his BT life in Dial House, 2VF, Pioneer and Dalton. He was for many years T.O.A. in Dalton. |
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| December 2016 |
Information from: Steve Corless |
 | | David Stopford |
| | David, better known to us Des, worked at East ATE and Deansgate ATE. |
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| November 2016 |
Information from: Peter Swindley |
 | | Roger Mitchell |
| | Roger worked at Knutsford ATE and later on System X |
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| November 2016 |
Information from: Roy White |
 | | Steve Blake |
| | Steve started as one man installer at Radcliffe A.T.E.in the eighties and went on to become a coach at Pendleton |
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| October 2016 |
Information from: Mike Norris |
 | | Ian Staley |
| | Ian, initially worked Transmission Construction and more recently Transmission Planning on 5th Floor, Dial House |
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| August 2016 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell |
 | | Harry Kirk |
| | Harry spent some time during his national service in Kenya then came back and resumed his career at Altrincham Exchange working alongside the likes of Bob Quayle, Jack Taylor and Don Dumbar with the level 1 being A.T.Jones and George Stephenson. Harry was a TO in the exchange and spent his time between the exchange and the Test Desk handling customer complaints and dishing out repairs to field staff. He spoke at machine gun speed and it got faster the more excited he became, making it difficult to tell what he was saying at times. At this time he was a football pools collector a job he did for many years, he was also the POEU Union rep. He was always quite cynical of management decisions which he frequently questioned as he thought he new better. He progressed from TO to TOA and was quite knowledgeable in fact you could consider him to have been considered as an expert on TXE 4 the new exchanges being phased in, and was very involved in the severe problems which occurred when they opened Ringway Exchange, only the second TXE4 to be brought on line in Manchester South Telephone Area. This led to his promotion to level 1 on TXE 4 Exchanges in Manchester South Area. He was a man who always had a good sense of humour and integrity; he was also well respected by both staff and higher management. He was also very interested in finance and became a bit of a wizard at investments etc a trait which has manifested itself in his son, he should probably have been an accountant and without a doubt he would have been very successful. He will be greatly missed by his ex BT pals who meet every month for a noggin and natter at Mersey Farm Restaurant. |
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| July 2016 |
Information from: Alan Farrell |
 | | Roger Barfield |
| | Roger started his career on Exchange Construction, in the Manchester area. On the area split, he went to the North area as C.O.W. He left B.T around 1980 and worked abroad for a number of years then returned to the U.K around 1985. |
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| June 2016 |
Information from: Paula Taylor |
 | | Eleanor Higgins |
| | Eleanor worked as a telephonist then in Sales and the Manchester Service Centre |
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| June 2016 |
Information from: Peter Faulkner |
 | | John Faulkner |
| | John originally worked in Dial House Manchester (Started October 1939). Then TOA at Pendleton for many years, finally Irlam ATE before retiring in January 1988. Sadly following a fall he passed away age 93 in Salford Hospital. |
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| June 2016 |
Information from: Mike Ku |
 | | Dave Benson |
| | Dave died peacefully at Southfield House Care Home after suffering from Parkinson's Disease for a number of years. Most of his career was spent in Dial House where he progressed through the ranks from TO, in Pioneer, to Level 2 over Maintenance and eventually retired while in the NOU at York St where he assisted with the setting up of the unit. Dave was also very active with the IBTE for many years. He organised and facilitated the various lectures and was instrumental in putting together and supporting the highly successful Manchester Quiz Team. He will be sadly missed by many of his ex-colleagues. |
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| April 2016 |
Information from: |
 | | John Grundy |
| | Details to follow |
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