| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| April 2023 |
Information from: Graham Whiteside |
 | | Roger Curran |
| | Roger worked for BT from 1971 until his retirement in 2015. |
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| April 2023 |
Information from: Heather Renshaw |
 | | Mike Walker |
| | Mike worked on EL and P in Dial House in the 70's and 80's |
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| March 2023 |
Information from: Phil Brooks |
 | | Alvin Brooks |
| | Details to follow, if you can help get in touch via our 'Contact us' page. |
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| March 2023 |
Information from: Alison Gunning |
 | | Peter Entwistle |
| | Peter started work at GPO Telephones in 1973. He worked firstly in Traffic, then moved onto Telephone Accounts followed by engineering on provision and installation with Business Systems. Most of his career was spent here. His final years at BT was spent working on Mobile Networks finishing in March of 2015 |
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| Febuary 2023 |
Information from: Andrew Hurley |
 | | Maurice Ireland |
| | Maurice started as a Y2YC in 1953 his last year being on Transmission, a TO Dial House Trunk Test. Head of sales Manchester North. |
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| Febuary 2023 |
Information from: Mike Norris |
 | | Nick Hough |
| | Nick started with GPO Telephones in 1968. Worked in Dial house for many years on Traffic Works Orders. Promoted MPG2 in 1990. Worked for London Business Processes Group, but based in Manchester. Left BT in 1995 then worked as a Project Manager, or Project Planning Engineer, in: civil engineering and construction, nuclear, telecom, and the railway sectors. |
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| January 2023 |
Information from: Robert Armstrong |
 | | John Wardle |
| | John was a Transmission T.O. at Buxton |
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| January 2023 |
Information from: Jeff Horsfall |
 | | Barrie Smith |
| | Barrie was a former UG Maintenance engineer working out of Macclesfield TEC in and around Macclesfield, Congleton and surrounding areas. |
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| January 2023 |
Information from: Jeff Horsfall |
 | | Ken Sparkes |
| | Ken moved to the GPO after his servive in the Military Police. He worked in the Macclesfield, South Manchester area. First in an External Works unit where become gang foreman. Ken then later moved into provision Control before taking early retirement in one of the first release schemes. |
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| January 2023 |
Information from: Alan Farrell |
 | | Ted Officer |
| | Ted started his career in Blackburn Exchange, served in the Royal Signals as Captain, AE EE Supplies Department, Area Engineer Cardiff Area, Regional Engineer Wales and Border Counties and Marches, 1970 Telephone Manager Manchester North. |
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| December 2022 |
Information from: Ged Morris |
 | | Dave Foley |
| | Dave worked on Construction in Dial house. He spent many years installing IP equipment in the POP sites in the building. |
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| December 2022 |
Information from: Alison Gunning |
 | | Jean Frith |
| | Jean worked in the restaurants in Dial House, Portland St and occasionally York St until she retired in 1991. |
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| December 2022 |
Information from: Jeff Horsfall |
 | | Peter Hammond |
| | Peter worked in various roles within BT around the Altrincham and Sale area mainly customer facing. He also worked in the Wilmslow Computer Centre installing and maintaining ARSCC ‘E’ and Northern Telecom Remote Line testing, for the RSC’s in the Manchester area. He played a major part in setting up the Customer Service centre in Church Street and the MBMC in Dial House. When the Wilmslow centre was closed he moved to Lancaster House, in Liverpool, where he was the Field Support for the Vanderhoff Remote Line Testing system. Then moved to the Diagnostic Test centre at the former Ashton RSC before moving back to his home ground at Altrincham, in the Diagnostic Test centre. He remained there until retirement when he then took a part time role, as a guide, at the Woodford Avro museum. |
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| December 2022 |
Information from: Karl Highcock |
 | | Keith Highcock |
| | Keith was based at East TEC on External Works Supervision, as a T.O. supervising the external contractors. He worked there a number of years before taking Release '92. |
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| December 2022 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell |
 | | John Ollerenshaw |
| | John worked in Manchester North Area on Exchange Maintenance until he was promoted to Level 1, and then again had responsibilities for Exchanges in the North area. |
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| December 2022 |
Information from: Dave Bell |
 | | Rob Roland |
| | Rob worked at BT Manchester in Dial House 1965-1994. Emigrated to Canada November 1994 and worked at MTS Allstream Telecommunications company had various names during this time until 2010. Laid off then worked for himself. |
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| November 2022 |
Information from: Graham Copeland |
 | | Roy Cohen |
| | Roy has worked in many staffs within BT mainly on Circuit Provision. He was working on frames with Openreach when he suffered a fatal heart attack at Bury exchange whilst working. |
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| August 2022 |
Information from: Graham Berry |
 | | Kevin Walters |
| | Kevin spent a lot of his working time in Dial House. Working on Circuit Provision and Maintenance. He transferred to Openreach later in his career working on frames then around the patch. |
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| August 2022 |
Information from: Roy White |
 | | Stanley Ashurst |
| | Stan started as a one man installer at Radcliffe TEC in the early to mid eighties. |
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| August 2022 |
Information from: Andy Redford |
 | | Ian Wing |
| | Ian worked on the SDH-ASDH team in York street and Dial House and then onto International Circuit Provision, he moved onto the tech support for SDH later. |
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