| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| July 2018 |
Information from: Harold Garner |
 | | Mike Flynn |
| | Mike lived in Glossop. He joined the GPO from the Forces. He worked as a TO in the 60s in Dial House on Works Orders. Later he went to work on TEO with Alan Bannister and then finally MR/G on Transmission Maintenance. He was promoted to Level 1 and then finally Level 2 within the NW Regional Headquarters before taking retirement.
Mike served 30 plus years as a JP in the Tameside Area where he was also active on the Mottram Bypass Committee for many years. He was a keen Badminton and Table Tennis player in his time. He will be sadly missed by all of his colleagues. |
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| July 2018 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher (Flek) |
 | | Arthur Whyte |
| | Arthur worked as a cleaner at Whaley Bridge until retirement. |
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| June 2018 |
Information from: Allan Henson |
 | | David Millington |
| | Details to follow |
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| June 2018 |
Information from: Peter Carey |
 | | Vin Carey |
| | Vin spent his earlier years with the GPO at Dial House then moved to Eccles Exchange where he worked until his retirement making many friends on the way.
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| May 2018 |
Information from: Brian Carrick |
 | | Tony Lyons |
| | Tony spent most of his BT career in Guardian Exchange, the last few years before early retirement were spent in Dial House. |
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| May 2018 |
Information from: John Essex and Mike Ku |
 | | Dave Oldham |
| | Dave was heavily involved in the early days data transmission using modems. He went on to manage many teams within BT. He was also an accomplished keyboard player and sailor. |
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| May 2018 |
Information from: James Glynn Fletcher |
 | | Jack Henshall |
| | Jack worked for a long time on subs. in the Heaton Moor area and latterly on the test desk at Stockport ATE. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Stan Gorman |
| | Stan worked in the Telex Exchange in Central, York Street. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Jeff Cook |
| | Jeff worked on Manchester Central auto before transferring to the Training School at Didsbury. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell |
 | | Sid Conroy |
| | Sid retired from BT in 1994 spending his later career in the Sales Department rising to the heights of a Level 5. He was a colourful chap and well liked by all those who he worked with in BT. He was a very busy and active person both in BT and at home, an avid and very capable DIY man who could turn his hand to anything. He also had a market stall at Altrincham Market with his wife Sandra selling shoes. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: Bill Howard and Allan Brown |
 | | Martin Butlin |
| | Martin worked in Dial House Manchester on Trunk Test |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Brian Carrick |
 | | Ian Sandels |
| | Ian passed away peacefully after a long fight with cancer.
Ian worked in Manchester on Outside Broadcasts from the age of 21 to his retirement. |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Alan Murphy and Ian Gregory |
 | | Albert Hobbs |
| | Albert worked in the Manchester NOU, Blackfriars Unit E, Blackfriars TXE4, and Subs Maintenance in the old Manchester Central Area. |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Roger Curran and John Ainsworth |
 | | Steve Brady |
| | Steve worked in Swinton on Exchange Maintenance around 40 years ago before moving into the NOU around 1990 working on System X and AXE10 Maintenance/Surveillance. He moved on to network support and worked there until being put in the CTC. He then got as job working in Dial House on MEAS around 9/10 years ago where he worked on various roles until he left BT in 2017 on a release package. Steve was a popular and well liked man and was always ready to share his extensive knowledge. |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Chris Miles |
 | | Alan Miles |
| | Alan worked for BT for in it's many guises for 42 years before retiring in 1987.
A great many years were spent working in Dial House where he rose to the rank of Executive Engineer before spending some time as a Lecturer at Horwood House near Milton Keynes then finishing his career in Bristol. |
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| Febuary 2018 |
Information from: Eric Garner and Jeff Horsfall |
 | | Pete Warhurst |
| | Details to follow |
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| Febuary 2018 |
Information from: Pete Watson and John Williams |
 | | Jeff Roberts |
| | Jeff spent most of his service in the Manchester South area rinsing from Y2YC to level two. He retired to Cambridgeshire |
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| Febuary 2018 |
Information from: David Mills |
 | | Barry Jones |
| | Barry joined the old GPO as a Y2YC. He spent most of his working life in the Manchester Television Network Switching Centre before retiring in 1993 |
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| Febuary 2018 |
Information from: Pete Watson |
 | | Ron Wood |
| | Ron was level one on external planning in Manchester Central for most his career |
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| January 2018 |
Information from: Alan Farrell and Don Binks |
 | | Cliff Carter |
| | Cliff was a line manager on Switch and Transmission Exchange Construction in the old Manchester North area |
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