| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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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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| December 2018 |
Information from: John Ogden |
 | | Steve Ogden |
| | Steve started as a TTA on EL and P in 1969 he then has spells on Exchange Construction and Maintenance in Manchester North and South areas. He subsequently moved to the BT training college at Stone for several years before moving to America for 15 years with BT-Concert. He returned to the UK a few years ago. |
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| December 2018 |
Information from: David J Mills |
 | | Harold S Garner |
| | Harold joined as a Y2Yc. He worked in the Auto exchange field being on the area pool before running Woodley Telephone exchange for some years. He later worked on Transmission at Manchester G before being promoted. He eventually went on to work at the RNCC before retirement. |
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| December 2018 |
Information from: Ken Monaghan |
 | | Howard Nixon |
| | Howard worked in many places including Blackfriars and Collyhurst Exchanges and then on various jobs in Grand Island and Dial House. |
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| November 2018 |
Information from: John Fradley |
 | | Albert Sanders |
| | Albert worked for many years in Guardian and Rutherford House |
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| November 2018 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell |
 | | Ted Ings |
| | Ted Ings who was a Level 1 AEE will be known to many in the North West for his Regional Involvement in Electronic Exchanges |
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| November 2018 |
Information from: Bill Hayes |
 | | Neil Rothnie |
| | Details to follow |
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| October 2018 |
Information from: Mike Ku |
 | | Ron Scanes |
| | Ron started his career in the Stalybridge and Ashton area and then took up Transmission duties in Dial House on Works Orders on the 1st Floor. He ended his BT days as the North Area ASCO. |
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| August 2018 |
Information from: Alan Farrell |
 | | Ray Mee |
| | Ray worked in Dial House on Electric Lighting and Power EL and P. |
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| August 2018 |
Information from: Barry Durbar and Richard Poole |
 | | Ted McGee |
| | Ted was 86 and spent his later years in BT on Exchange Maintenance at Wilmslow. |
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| July 2018 |
Information from: Harold Garner |
 | | Mike Flynn |
| | Mike lived in Glossop. He joined the GPO from the Forces. He worked as a TO in the 60s in Dial House on Works Orders. Later he went to work on TEO with Alan Bannister and then finally MR/G on Transmission Maintenance. He was promoted to Level 1 and then finally Level 2 within the NW Regional Headquarters before taking retirement.
Mike served 30 plus years as a JP in the Tameside Area where he was also active on the Mottram Bypass Committee for many years. He was a keen Badminton and Table Tennis player in his time. He will be sadly missed by all of his colleagues. |
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