| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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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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| July 2018 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher (Flek) |
 | | Arthur Whyte |
| | Arthur worked as a cleaner at Whaley Bridge until retirement. |
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| June 2018 |
Information from: Allan Henson |
 | | David Millington |
| | Details to follow |
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| June 2018 |
Information from: Peter Carey |
 | | Vin Carey |
| | Vin spent his earlier years with the GPO at Dial House then moved to Eccles Exchange where he worked until his retirement making many friends on the way.
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| May 2018 |
Information from: Brian Carrick |
 | | Tony Lyons |
| | Tony spent most of his BT career in Guardian Exchange, the last few years before early retirement were spent in Dial House. |
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| May 2018 |
Information from: John Essex and Mike Ku |
 | | Dave Oldham |
| | Dave was heavily involved in the early days data transmission using modems. He went on to manage many teams within BT. He was also an accomplished keyboard player and sailor. |
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| May 2018 |
Information from: James Glynn Fletcher |
 | | Jack Henshall |
| | Jack worked for a long time on subs. in the Heaton Moor area and latterly on the test desk at Stockport ATE. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Stan Gorman |
| | Stan worked in the Telex Exchange in Central, York Street. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Jeff Cook |
| | Jeff worked on Manchester Central auto before transferring to the Training School at Didsbury. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: Laurence Capewell |
 | | Sid Conroy |
| | Sid retired from BT in 1994 spending his later career in the Sales Department rising to the heights of a Level 5. He was a colourful chap and well liked by all those who he worked with in BT. He was a very busy and active person both in BT and at home, an avid and very capable DIY man who could turn his hand to anything. He also had a market stall at Altrincham Market with his wife Sandra selling shoes. |
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| April 2018 |
Information from: Bill Howard and Allan Brown |
 | | Martin Butlin |
| | Martin worked in Dial House Manchester on Trunk Test |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Brian Carrick |
 | | Ian Sandels |
| | Ian passed away peacefully after a long fight with cancer.
Ian worked in Manchester on Outside Broadcasts from the age of 21 to his retirement. |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Alan Murphy and Ian Gregory |
 | | Albert Hobbs |
| | Albert worked in the Manchester NOU, Blackfriars Unit E, Blackfriars TXE4, and Subs Maintenance in the old Manchester Central Area. |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Roger Curran and John Ainsworth |
 | | Steve Brady |
| | Steve worked in Swinton on Exchange Maintenance around 40 years ago before moving into the NOU around 1990 working on System X and AXE10 Maintenance/Surveillance. He moved on to network support and worked there until being put in the CTC. He then got as job working in Dial House on MEAS around 9/10 years ago where he worked on various roles until he left BT in 2017 on a release package. Steve was a popular and well liked man and was always ready to share his extensive knowledge. |
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| March 2018 |
Information from: Chris Miles |
 | | Alan Miles |
| | Alan worked for BT for in it's many guises for 42 years before retiring in 1987.
A great many years were spent working in Dial House where he rose to the rank of Executive Engineer before spending some time as a Lecturer at Horwood House near Milton Keynes then finishing his career in Bristol. |
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| Febuary 2018 |
Information from: Eric Garner and Jeff Horsfall |
 | | Pete Warhurst |
| | Details to follow |
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| Febuary 2018 |
Information from: Pete Watson and John Williams |
 | | Jeff Roberts |
| | Jeff spent most of his service in the Manchester South area rinsing from Y2YC to level two. He retired to Cambridgeshire |
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