| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| August 2016 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell |
 | | Harry Kirk |
| | Harry spent some time during his national service in Kenya then came back and resumed his career at Altrincham Exchange working alongside the likes of Bob Quayle, Jack Taylor and Don Dumbar with the level 1 being A.T.Jones and George Stephenson. Harry was a TO in the exchange and spent his time between the exchange and the Test Desk handling customer complaints and dishing out repairs to field staff. He spoke at machine gun speed and it got faster the more excited he became, making it difficult to tell what he was saying at times. At this time he was a football pools collector a job he did for many years, he was also the POEU Union rep. He was always quite cynical of management decisions which he frequently questioned as he thought he new better. He progressed from TO to TOA and was quite knowledgeable in fact you could consider him to have been considered as an expert on TXE 4 the new exchanges being phased in, and was very involved in the severe problems which occurred when they opened Ringway Exchange, only the second TXE4 to be brought on line in Manchester South Telephone Area. This led to his promotion to level 1 on TXE 4 Exchanges in Manchester South Area. He was a man who always had a good sense of humour and integrity; he was also well respected by both staff and higher management. He was also very interested in finance and became a bit of a wizard at investments etc a trait which has manifested itself in his son, he should probably have been an accountant and without a doubt he would have been very successful. He will be greatly missed by his ex BT pals who meet every month for a noggin and natter at Mersey Farm Restaurant. |
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| July 2016 |
Information from: Alan Farrell |
 | | Roger Barfield |
| | Roger started his career on Exchange Construction, in the Manchester area. On the area split, he went to the North area as C.O.W. He left B.T around 1980 and worked abroad for a number of years then returned to the U.K around 1985. |
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| June 2016 |
Information from: Paula Taylor |
 | | Eleanor Higgins |
| | Eleanor worked as a telephonist then in Sales and the Manchester Service Centre |
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| June 2016 |
Information from: Peter Faulkner |
 | | John Faulkner |
| | John originally worked in Dial House Manchester (Started October 1939). Then TOA at Pendleton for many years, finally Irlam ATE before retiring in January 1988. Sadly following a fall he passed away age 93 in Salford Hospital. |
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| June 2016 |
Information from: Mike Ku |
 | | Dave Benson |
| | Dave died peacefully at Southfield House Care Home after suffering from Parkinson's Disease for a number of years. Most of his career was spent in Dial House where he progressed through the ranks from TO, in Pioneer, to Level 2 over Maintenance and eventually retired while in the NOU at York St where he assisted with the setting up of the unit. Dave was also very active with the IBTE for many years. He organised and facilitated the various lectures and was instrumental in putting together and supporting the highly successful Manchester Quiz Team. He will be sadly missed by many of his ex-colleagues. |
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| April 2016 |
Information from: |
 | | John Grundy |
| | Details to follow |
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| March 2016 |
Information from: Dave Richardson |
 | | Tom Jardine |
| | Tom worked as a TO for many years on Radio/TV maintenance at Heaton Park Radio Station. He later moved into management within BT before retiring. |
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| March 2016 |
Information from: John Ashworth |
 | | Alan Cavanagh |
| | Details to follow |
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| March 2016 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher (Fleck) |
 | | Graham Shaw |
| | Graham worked on subs maintenance at Stockport. |
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| March 2016 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher (Fleck) |
 | | Dave Brindley |
| | Dave was on subs maintenance at Stockport and then he worked on the Stockport RSC. |
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| Febuary 2016 |
Information from: Steve Dunn |
 | | Bill Cullen |
| | Bill worked predominantly as a Telex engineer in Manchester Central and latterly for Telecom Red, he was also a well known union official in the POEU MCI branch. |
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| Febuary 2016 |
Information from: Mike Ku |
 | | Barry Hadfield |
| | Barry "Mr Sutton Common" Hadfield passed away 11th Feb having suffered from motor neurone disease for 3 years. He retired in 1989 as an external technical support manager within the Regional Office. He started his career on the clerical side, then moved to the engineering side where he spent some time in Dial House before being promoted. Barry was 80 yrs old. RIP |
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| Febuary 2016 |
Information from: Sid Weeks |
 | | Steve Routledge |
| | Steve worked on the North area on System X. |
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| January 2016 |
Information from: Mike Norris |
 | | Steve 'Sam' Price |
| | Sam was an extremely popular and well known character, working in Dial House on Trunk Test / Transmission (including many years on Rota), CP and Packet Switch throughout the 70's, 80's and up to Release 92 when he changed career and became a schoolteacher. |
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| January 2016 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher (FLECK) |
 | | Les Tatton |
| | Les, from New Mills worked at Stockport ATE and then later in Manchester. |
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| November 2015 |
Information from: Andrea Rogers |
 | | Chris Barclay |
| | Chris worked in the Blackburn and Burnley area |
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| November 2015 |
Information from: Colin Chatterton |
 | | Tony Robinson |
| | Tony 'Robbo' spent a great deal of his career in Dial House. He worked on trunk auto in Dalton and Pioneer on the third floor. |
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| October 2015 |
Information from: Doug Edwards |
 | | Shirley Edwards |
| | Shirley worked for BT from around 1985 in the London Rd building on finance and then moved to Pendleton Old building with the External Contract Supervisers retiring in 1997. |
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| September 2015 |
Information from: Chris Abbott |
 | | George Ward |
| | George retired in the mid 90's after a long career working in Manchester Central on PBX installation and then as a T1 on Private Wires. Good memories of George who was like a father figure to 'us young uns' on PW's at that time. |
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| September 2015 |
Information from: Geoff Stokes |
 | | Ronny Rogers |
| | Ronny worked for Frank Whitehead on exchange construction and COW duties around Ashton-u-Lyne |
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