| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| December 2019 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell and Pete Watson |
 | | John Williams |
| | John came from Liverpool to take a level one post. Over the years he worked in the North and Central areas in various guises rising to level three in Dial House. He was a pleasant and respected boss always a gent. |
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| December 2019 |
Information from: Martin Jackson |
 | | Mick Owens |
| | Mick started in 1970 in the Wigan area he then moved to Manchester in the mid eighties on the Private Wire group moving on to the night staff working around Manchester and Lancs Cumbria around 2005. He retired in September 2011. |
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| November 2019 |
Information from: Martin Smith and Mike Ku |
 | | Cliff Maher |
| | Cliff worked as a TO on Rutherford Trunk Auto on the Rota Team for many years before getting promotion into management possibly on Regional Planning and retired as a Tier 2. |
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| October 2019 |
Information from: Mike Ku and Chris James |
 | | Brian Greenwood |
| | Details to follow |
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| October 2019 |
Information from: Andy Hurley |
 | | Fred Eric Taylor |
| | Fred worked as a TO in TVNSC Dial House and Heaton Park Radio Station. He then moved to Postal Engineering as a Level 1 manager. Then to Manchester North ELP Construction and Building Liaison Officer. |
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| September 2019 |
Information from: Christine Keene |
 | | Graham Keene |
| | Graham started BT as a youth in training when he was just 16 or 17. He worked on exchange construction and his boss was Tommy Moss in the latter years. He left BT on the first release in 1992. Sadly he passed away after suffering from dementia. |
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| September 2019 |
Information from: Ged Morris |
 | | Festus Ofili |
| | Festus worked on Building Services mainly based in Telecoms House. |
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| September 2019 |
Information from: Ken Monaghan |
 | | Phil Beattie |
| | Phil worked at The Prestwich Exchange building as a planner overseeing contractors. He died at the young age of 53. |
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| August 2019 |
Information from: Gary Jackson |
 | | Shaun Smith |
| | Details to follow |
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| July 2019 |
Information from: Dave White and Mike Ku |
 | | Jim Boydell |
| | Jim used teach at the Didsbury Training School many years ago. We think he finished his career as a rota manager in the NOU. He was also a very keen cyclist. |
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| July 2019 |
Information from: Don Binks |
 | | Steve Coney |
| | Sreve worked on Exchange Construction in the old Manchester North Area and then throughout the North West region. |
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| July 2019 |
Information from: Raymond Bailey |
 | | Dave Cosham |
| | Dave worked on private wires and in various departments in Dial House. After retirement worked part time in the world of horse racing working at Aintree and Haydock Park. |
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| June 2019 |
Information from: Stephen Corless |
 | | Rod Lomas |
| | Rod worked on telegraph's for many years. Rod was a jazz enthusiast he lived in Denton |
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| May 2019 |
Information from: Ron Dawson |
 | | Sam Corbett |
| | Sam spent most of his career as a Jointer and a Survey Officer on Manchester North Area. He died while playing in a bowling match which along with fishing was one of his passions. |
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| May 2019 |
Information from: Stuart Cameron and Dave Law |
 | | Vinny Collins |
| | Vinny worked on exchange construction in and out of Dial House for most of his career. A larger than life character he was a joy to work with and be around. A great raconteur. He will be sadly missed. |
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| March 2019 |
Information from: Colin Dutton |
 | | Ron Bates |
| | Ron was a Manager at Ashton involved in pole erection and recovery. |
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| Febuary 2019 |
Information from: Ron Dawson |
 | | Steve Payne |
| | Steve spent most of his career in Dalton trunk exchange before moving on to trunk test TVNSC and finally the outside broadcast group. He was a very sociable larger than life character who loved his football representing MANCASS and playing for his home town team Atherton Coll’s. |
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| Febuary 2019 |
Information from: Noel Michael Garlick |
 | | Mike Carr |
| | Mike worked at GPO then BT from the 1960s until his early retirement in 1991. Most of Mikes working life was in accounts at Telephone House and Church St Manchester. |
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| Febuary 2019 |
Information from: Alan Farrell |
 | | Doug Edwards |
| | Doug did his early work on Exchange Maintenance around Walkden Swinton and Pendleton. He later moved onto the TXE4 support group. He was also a committee man on the P.O.E.U. Manchester North Internal Branch for many a year. He was a well liked and much respected guy. |
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| January 2019 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Graham Bell |
| | Graham Dinger Bell worked on Trunk Test in Dial House for several years before transferring to the Training School at Didsbury specialising on Transmission. When the school closed he moved back to Dial House managing the Works Orders staff until his retirement. |
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