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Photo published in BT Today<br>The big guy with specs was George Smith Head of division the second person I don't know the third man standing is Peter Fawkes who was the first line manager of Rampart and the bloke in the red hat was me Dave Shear. The reason there were fingers in ears was because we had asked Peter ( Guy) Fawkes to close the exchange with a bang. <br>Update<br>I recently showed these photos to my dad, Peter Fawkes (now in his 80s) and he still remembers the day well. <br>He recalled a few funny stories from his time as level 1 looking after Rampart. . . . one being the day he discovered his engineers had secretly wired a door alarm on the entrance to flash a warning alerting them they had a visitor, apparently their way to make sure they were working whenever my dad popped in. He told me he never let on to them that he found out. Said if they were clever enough to come up with that idea then well done them. Updated 27th June 2020 by Andrew Fawkes

Photo published in BT Today
The big guy with specs was George Smith Head of division the second person I don't know the third man standing is Peter Fawkes who was the first line manager of Rampart and the bloke in the red hat was me Dave Shear. The reason there were fingers in ears was because we had asked Peter ( Guy) Fawkes to close the exchange with a bang.
Update
I recently showed these photos to my dad, Peter Fawkes (now in his 80s) and he still remembers the day well.
He recalled a few funny stories from his time as level 1 looking after Rampart. . . . one being the day he discovered his engineers had secretly wired a door alarm on the entrance to flash a warning alerting them they had a visitor, apparently their way to make sure they were working whenever my dad popped in. He told me he never let on to them that he found out. Said if they were clever enough to come up with that idea then well done them. Updated 27th June 2020 by Andrew Fawkes

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Original \| Resized -- ? --	Original \| Resized Photo published in BT Today The big guy with specs was George Smith Head of division the second person I don't know the third man standing is Peter Fawkes who was the first line manager of Rampart and the bloke in the red hat was me Dave Shear. The reason there were fingers in ears was because we had asked Peter ( Guy) Fawkes to close the exchange with a bang. Update I recently showed these photos to my dad, Peter Fawkes (now in his 80s) and he still remembers the day well. He recalled a few funny stories from his time as level 1 looking after Rampart. . . . one being the day he discovered his engineers had secretly wired a door alarm on the entrance to flash a warning alerting them they had a visitor, apparently their way to make sure they were working whenever my dad popped in. He told me he never let on to them that he found out. Said if they were clever enough to come up with that idea then well done them. Updated 27th June 2020 by Andrew Fawkes	Original \| Resized Peter Fawkes and Dave Shear with a lovely back of head shot of Thelma , blonde hair and turquoise dress who was Dave Shears best PA.	Original \| Resized George Smith and Dave Shear
Original \| Resized -- ? --	Original \| Resized Dave Shear and Peter Fawkes stood in front of the magnetic drums which had been running on the same bearings for 30 years.	Original \| Resized Edgar Williams TOa trunk test and Ray Starling from trunk test.	Original \| Resized Clive Darbyshire and Cliff
Original \| Resized Doc Dave While is the centre image.	Original \| Resized Dave Shear and Peter Fawkes just about to press the plunger and blow up Rampart exchange in the great tradition of his famous ancestor Guido Fawkes. The explosives were positioned and provided by Brian ( Nutty) Nuttall a very clever TO who nearly killed everyone present.	Original \| Resized Facing the camera George Smith, Dave Shear, and Peter Fawkes.	Original \| Resized -- ? --
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Original \| Resized From L- R Peter Fawkes, then Fred Croft who was originally Lev 1 I the reference centre and inventor of the Auxiliary Traffic recorder which created tons of Saturday OT in Pioneer, thanks Fred. Dave Shear.	Original \| Resized From left Dave Shear, Ken Banks TOa and really the guy who ran Rampart , and Cliff who had been an eng labourer in Rampart.	Original \| Resized Steve Jones + Graham Edney	Original \| Resized Doug Paul ex Rampart To in the middle.
Original \| Resized -- ? --	Original \| Resized The two ladies in the foreground are Thelma and Hilda.	Original \| Resized Ken Banks, Mike Pickering, John Buckley, Wynn Witham	Original \| Resized Ged Cathcart, Steve Worthington, Shaun Burrows,