| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| May 2025 |
Information from: Alan Farrell |
 | | John Chant |
| | John spent most of his service in the north of the areas. He started as a youth on Subs App and line, then on exchange construction, followed by a period on E.L. and P. He left B.T. in 1993 |
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| May 2025 |
Information from: John Dillon |
 | | Geoff Bygrave |
| | Geoff worked in Trunk Test in Dial house before moving to Cellnet, also based in Dial House. |
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| April 2025 |
Information from: Pat Bright |
 | | Phil Bright |
| | Phil worked in many locations within Manchester including Pioneer Exchange in Dial House, Rutherford Guardian, Manchester 'A' Trunk Test and TVNSC. He took voluntary redundancy from BT in 1996 and moved to Eccleshall. He had various jobs subsequently working for Nynex to bus driving with Arriva and much in between. |
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| April 2025 |
Information from: Alan Pearce |
 | | Haydn James Mason |
| | Haydn worked on Electric Lighting and Power in the old Manchester North area and was based for a while at Oldham Exchange. He was also involved in the Territorial Army outside of his BT life and also did a lot of charity work. |
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| April 2025 |
Information from: Geoff Plevin |
 | | Mike Spencer |
| | Mike used to work out of Gorton on Customer Apparatus and Line. |
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| April 2025 |
Information from: Barbara Pitchford |
 | | Brian Pitchford |
| | Brian was in Pioneer and worked mainly upstairs on the Manual Switch Boards alongside Colin Dutton, Brian ‘Booper’ Benson and Tony Robinson, was on the Dalton Staff so we all worked alongside each other on the 3rd Floor in Dial House. |
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| March 2025 |
Information from: Richard Pennington |
 | | Denis Todd |
| | Denis worked in Dial House on transmission construction. |
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| Febuary 2025 |
Information from: Ian Ringwood |
 | | Doug Adams |
| | Doug worked on fibre planning in Telecoms House Manchester. |
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| January 2025 |
Information from: Ken Monaghan |
 | | Brian McKeown |
| | Brian worked in many areas of BT. He was manager at Ardwick and East Exchanges, also a Manager at the MAC Centre Dial House . |
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| January 2025 |
Information from: Alan Collinge |
 | | Pete Williams |
| | Pete worked in Manchester Central Strowger and TXE4 maintenance during the 70’s and 80’s |
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| January 2025 |
Information from: Colin Woodbridge |
 | | Ian Frank |
| | Details to follow, if you can help get in touch via our 'Contact us' page. |
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| December 2024 |
Information from: Bill Heavey |
 | | Pete Smith |
| | Pete worked most of his working life in Central exchange. Initially on Strowger, then TXE4. |
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| December 2024 |
Information from: Dave Crowley and Colin Woodbridge |
 | | Trevor Bevan |
| | Trevor worked on the south side of Manchester on Transmission construction, he later moved onto Megastream provision. He took advantage of one of the release packages when he was 56. |
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| November 2024 |
Information from: James Glynn Fletcher |
 | | Ian Wright |
| | Ian worked from Stockport and Macclesfield on PABX Maintenance. He referred to himself as a ‘Telecommunications Specialist’, never just an engineer. Ian retired about 30 years ago. |
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| November 2024 |
Information from: Richard Pennington and Colin Woodbridge |
 | | Keith Stott |
| | Keith worked on the South side of Manchester on Exchange construction, Transmission construction and Megastream provision. |
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| October 2024 |
Information from: Colin Dutton |
 | | John Boardman |
| | John worked on the power team in Dial House. |
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| October 2024 |
Information from: Bryan Mullineaux |
 | | Dave Currie |
| | Dave worked in Dial House, Rutherford, Turret and finally returning to the DSN in Dial before retirement due to illness. |
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| September 2024 |
Information from: Harry Bannister |
 | | Alan MacDermott |
| | Alan started in Pioneer in 1966 but Mac transferred to Turret in the late sixties he subsequently left the GPO in 1979 to work for various telecomms companies in the Middle East and Asia developing their training programs |
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| August 2024 |
Information from: Karl Highcock |
 | | Glynn Martin |
| | Glynn joined BT in 1969 on construction MDF duties in south Manchester. He moved to Dial House in 1986 on Circuit Provision. He remained there until he took early retirement. |
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| July 2024 |
Information from: Mike McGarry |
 | | Bob Hulme |
| | Bob was one of the original staff at the new Turret trunk exchange in Salford. He worked on the maintenance rota before he moved Cornwall. |
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