| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| March 2020 |
Information from: Graham Whiteside |
 | | Bill Clarke |
| | Bill worked on Trunk Test in Dial House Manchester. |
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| Febuary 2020 |
Information from: Andria Rogers |
 | | Steve Kruger |
| | Steve worked in Telecoms House on Building Services. |
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| Febuary 2020 |
Information from: Joe Boulderstone-Salthouse |
 | | Alan Jones No8 |
| | Details to follow if you can help get in touch via or Contact us page. |
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| January 2020 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Lance Middleton |
| | Lance retired when the Didsbury Training School closed in 1985. He’d been there about 10 to 12 years. He was a real character and I’m told that in the 1950s he was suspended for 12 months on full pay suspected of Communist connections. He had in fact married an Armenian girl old eastern bloc so no connections found. Lance Died at the right good old age of 100 |
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| January 2020 |
Information from: Harry Bannister |
 | | Alan Jones |
| | Alan spent his early days in the 60’s 70’s and 80’s in Dial House Carrier and his latter management days spent in the NOU in Manchester. |
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| December 2019 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell and Pete Watson |
 | | John Williams |
| | John came from Liverpool to take a level one post. Over the years he worked in the North and Central areas in various guises rising to level three in Dial House. He was a pleasant and respected boss always a gent. |
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| December 2019 |
Information from: Martin Jackson |
 | | Mick Owens |
| | Mick started in 1970 in the Wigan area he then moved to Manchester in the mid eighties on the Private Wire group moving on to the night staff working around Manchester and Lancs Cumbria around 2005. He retired in September 2011. |
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| November 2019 |
Information from: Martin Smith and Mike Ku |
 | | Cliff Maher |
| | Cliff worked as a TO on Rutherford Trunk Auto on the Rota Team for many years before getting promotion into management possibly on Regional Planning and retired as a Tier 2. |
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| October 2019 |
Information from: Mike Ku and Chris James |
 | | Brian Greenwood |
| | Details to follow |
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| October 2019 |
Information from: Andy Hurley |
 | | Fred Eric Taylor |
| | Fred worked as a TO in TVNSC Dial House and Heaton Park Radio Station. He then moved to Postal Engineering as a Level 1 manager. Then to Manchester North ELP Construction and Building Liaison Officer. |
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| September 2019 |
Information from: Christine Keene |
 | | Graham Keene |
| | Graham started BT as a youth in training when he was just 16 or 17. He worked on exchange construction and his boss was Tommy Moss in the latter years. He left BT on the first release in 1992. Sadly he passed away after suffering from dementia. |
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| September 2019 |
Information from: Ged Morris |
 | | Festus Ofili |
| | Festus worked on Building Services mainly based in Telecoms House. |
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| September 2019 |
Information from: Ken Monaghan |
 | | Phil Beattie |
| | Phil worked at The Prestwich Exchange building as a planner overseeing contractors. He died at the young age of 53. |
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| August 2019 |
Information from: Gary Jackson |
 | | Shaun Smith |
| | Details to follow |
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| July 2019 |
Information from: Dave White and Mike Ku |
 | | Jim Boydell |
| | Jim used teach at the Didsbury Training School many years ago. We think he finished his career as a rota manager in the NOU. He was also a very keen cyclist. |
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| July 2019 |
Information from: Don Binks |
 | | Steve Coney |
| | Sreve worked on Exchange Construction in the old Manchester North Area and then throughout the North West region. |
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| July 2019 |
Information from: Raymond Bailey |
 | | Dave Cosham |
| | Dave worked on private wires and in various departments in Dial House. After retirement worked part time in the world of horse racing working at Aintree and Haydock Park. |
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| June 2019 |
Information from: Stephen Corless |
 | | Rod Lomas |
| | Rod worked on telegraph's for many years. Rod was a jazz enthusiast he lived in Denton |
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| May 2019 |
Information from: Ron Dawson |
 | | Sam Corbett |
| | Sam spent most of his career as a Jointer and a Survey Officer on Manchester North Area. He died while playing in a bowling match which along with fishing was one of his passions. |
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| May 2019 |
Information from: Stuart Cameron and Dave Law |
 | | Vinny Collins |
| | Vinny worked on exchange construction in and out of Dial House for most of his career. A larger than life character he was a joy to work with and be around. A great raconteur. He will be sadly missed. |
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