| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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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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| January 2018 |
Information from: Allan Brown |
 | | Peter Heys |
| | Peter started work on GPO Telegraphs and was the Level 1
over the North TEO when he retired. He was also very much involved in the World of Horse Racing. |
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| December 2017 |
Information from: Mike Norris |
 | | Peter Walker |
| | Peter worked on EL & P in Manchester Guardian / Tunnel and Dial House amongst other places. He retired in the 1980's. |
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| December 2017 |
Information from: Harry Jones |
 | | Gottfried Sohar |
| | Gottfried worked mainly the South Manchester area, on overhead based at Altrincham. |
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| November 2017 |
Information from: Lynne Pringle-Adley |
 | | Nadine Beard |
| | Nadine passed away at the young age of 46. She worked at Grand Island, Manchester. |
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| October 2017 |
Information from: David Mills |
 | | Brian Pugh |
| | Brian worked in Dial House Manchester in the TVNSC for many years. He was also a keen Radio Amateur (G3SMU) |
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| August 2017 |
Information from: Bernie Rowlands and Mike Ku |
 | | Tom Hoey |
| | Tom was a TO in LV/D Repeater Station and then became a level 1 manager in Liverpool. In the mid 80s he was promoted to Level 2 and took up the post of LinkLine Liason Officer in Manchester, based in St Andrews House. |
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| August 2017 |
Information from: Andrea Rogers |
 | | Malcom Pickup |
| | Malc worked on the South Manchester area including Sale exchange and later in Dial House |
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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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