| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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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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| September 2015 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher (Fleck) |
 | | Vic Sands |
| | Vic, worked at Stockport exchange 60s and 70s. |
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| August 2015 |
Information from: Pat Horner |
 | | Ann Smethills |
| | Ann was an operator in Cathedral Exchange before moving onto the engineering group. |
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| May 2015 |
Information from: Bob Tattersall |
 | | Doug Whelan |
| | Doug worked on Manchester South area on PABX Mtce for many years,he then retired in the mid 90s and worked in Oman for the Government on telecoms duties. He then came back and became a stalwart of the golf society and a vociferous Man U and fitness fan. |
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| March 2015 |
Information from: Peter Faulkner |
 | | Arthur Cottam |
| | Arthur worked at Pendleton Telephone Exchange for some 30 years as TO on exchange maintenance |
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| March 2015 |
Information from: Geoff Plevin |
 | | Bill Ravenscroft |
| | Bill worked in RSC's in Bury and
Cheetham Hill (possibly). He went on to manage Altrincham RSC and then moved to the Customer Contact Centre in Church St Manchester.
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| Febuary 2015 |
Information from: John Makinson |
 | | Alan Gawne |
| | Alan worked around Wilmslow and ended up as the TOA in Congleton exchange around the time of the installation of the then new TXE4A unit. |
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| Febuary 2015 |
Information from: Mike Ku |
 | | John Garner |
| | John worked around the Northwich area and in particularly in the TXE4A at Winsford. He Suffered a heart attack whilst on a MANCASS trip to India
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| Febuary 2015 |
Information from: Mike Ku |
 | | Barry Winton |
| | Barry held several management posts in South Manchester and worked as a Management Trainer during the 1980s. Just before retirement he was the Tier 2 manager on Linkline Liaison based at St Andrews House. After retirement he became a walking guide and also used to ferry visitors to boats in the Lake District. He will be sadly missed by many. |
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| January 2015 |
Information from: Chris James |
 | | 'Big' Dave Wilson |
| | Dave has worked for many years on the Dial House construction staff. Dave had been retired for about two years, but was dignosed with cancer shortly after leaving. He will be sadly missed. |
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| November 2014 |
Information from: Stuart Cameron |
 | | Geoff Kennedy |
| | Geoff worked in Deansgate and Tandem then on rota in Blackfriars test in Dial House. |
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