| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| December 2020 |
Information from: Geoff Stokes |
 | | Bob Smith |
| | Bob was a level 1 manager on Manchester South Construction staffs |
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| November 2020 |
Information from: John Skelton |
 | | Trevor Bigham |
| | Trevor GPO Telephones in the mid 50's. He worked as a fitter and progressed to being a High Grade Fitter with his excellent problem solving skills. |
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| November 2020 |
Information from: Glynn Flectcher |
 | | Brian Pike |
| | Brian Pike was a fitter in 70s and 80s in the Stockport area. When he left BT he was the landlord of the White Hart in Whaley Bridge. |
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| November 2020 |
Information from: Mike Norris |
 | | Dennis Holyland |
| | Dennis worked on private wires in Dial House Manchester |
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| October 2020 |
Information from: Mike Ku and Bernie Rowlands |
 | | Eric Woodhouse |
| | Eric started his career in Liverpool where he was a TO on Transmission Works Orders at Liverpool D Repeater Station. He eventually got promotion to the Regional Service Division on Transmission Duties where he worked until retirement. |
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| October 2020 |
Information from: James Glynn Fletcher |
 | | Sid Rowe |
| | Sid worked on construction. |
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| October 2020 |
Information from: Jeff Horsfall |
 | | Norman Faulkner |
| | Norman was a Subs Apps and Line engineer working in the Macclesfield area South Manchester. |
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| October 2020 |
Information from: Graham Beesley |
 | | Dennis Mulcahy |
| | Dennis was a Faultsman Jointer based in Manchester |
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| October 2020 |
Information from: Nigel Milne |
 | | Dave Turton |
| | In the 1980-90’s Dave worked in the ADCO and the Datel Planning offices moving latterly to Customer Network Operations Project Management based in Telephone House. Previously he had worked on external works groups around the Manchester area. |
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| October 2020 |
Information from: Jeff Horsfall |
 | | Dave Edwards |
| | Dave was a Customer Service engineer working for Openreach in the Macclesfield area. He also used to cover the PABX customers around Macclesfield Congleton and surrounding areas. |
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| October 2020 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Ralph Brownell |
| | Ralph worked on Trunk Test in Dial House in the 1960's and was promoted to level 1 mamager on External Planning. |
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| September 2020 |
Information from: Chris Bates |
 | | Frank Rowbotham |
| | Frank started out on maintenance at Trafford exchange then followed thirty years on Telex. Both at York Street and Dial House. After the closure of Telex Frank moved to Broadband Provision. |
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| August 2020 |
Information from: James Glynn Fletcher |
 | | Ron Furness |
| | Ron was TOA in Gatley ATE from 1971. |
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| June 2020 |
Information from: Sue Raisbeck Bill's daughter |
 | | Bill Howard |
| | Bill worked in Manchester Central after starting as an apprentice in the 1950's. He is probably best remembered working on large customer switch maintenance as well as being on permanent call out. Bill was a larger than life character known by many for his great sense of humour. |
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| June 2020 |
Information from: Jim Heathcote |
 | | Les Turner |
| | Les worked on exchange construction in the 70's 80's and part of the 90's before he took early retirement. |
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| June 2020 |
Information from: Jeff Horsfall and Dave Armstrong |
 | | Dave Smith 'DAS' |
| | Dave Smith affectionately known as DAS was probably best known as TOA at Macclesfield RSC in the 1970s and 80s. |
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| June 2020 |
Information from: Allan Brown |
 | | Graham Allen |
| | Graham Big G joined as an apprentice in 195x. He later became a TO on Exchange Construction in Manchester and late 1960's onwards was Clerk of Works at the new Turret TkND exchange in Salford and later at Central TXE4. He also spent some time on exchange planning. He was promoted to Level 1 on exchange contract planning in the North West Regional Office in the mid 1980's and worked there until his retirement in 199x. planning for the replacement digital exchanges across the North West. |
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| May 2020 |
Information from: Harvey Derbyshire |
 | | John Essex |
| | John worked on the 1st floor Dial House on Works Orders he went on to manage Telex in the 80's he retired possibly as the manager on Aerial Rigging. He was a keen Radio Ham and a member of the Radio club during his time at Dial House. |
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| May 2020 |
Information from: Lynne Pringle-Adley |
 | | Edith White |
| | Edith who used to be an evening telephonist in Manchester Cathedral Exchange |
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| April 2020 |
Information from: Steven Wilson |
 | | Mike Kelly |
| | Mike worked on Private Wires at customer premises for many years. When Openreach was formed he continued to work at customer sites on installations until his retirement. |
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