| Roll of Honour |
| Farewell to our colleagues who have passed away |
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| December 2017 |
Information from: Mike Norris |
 | | Peter Walker |
| | Peter worked on EL & P in Manchester Guardian / Tunnel and Dial House amongst other places. He retired in the 1980's. |
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| December 2017 |
Information from: Harry Jones |
 | | Gottfried Sohar |
| | Gottfried worked mainly the South Manchester area, on overhead based at Altrincham. |
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| November 2017 |
Information from: Lynne Pringle-Adley |
 | | Nadine Beard |
| | Nadine passed away at the young age of 46. She worked at Grand Island, Manchester. |
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| October 2017 |
Information from: David Mills |
 | | Brian Pugh |
| | Brian worked in Dial House Manchester in the TVNSC for many years. He was also a keen Radio Amateur (G3SMU) |
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| August 2017 |
Information from: Bernie Rowlands and Mike Ku |
 | | Tom Hoey |
| | Tom was a TO in LV/D Repeater Station and then became a level 1 manager in Liverpool. In the mid 80s he was promoted to Level 2 and took up the post of LinkLine Liason Officer in Manchester, based in St Andrews House. |
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| August 2017 |
Information from: Andrea Rogers |
 | | Malcom Pickup |
| | Malc worked on the South Manchester area including Sale exchange and later in Dial House |
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| July 2017 |
Information from: Allan Brown |
 | | Ken Fearns |
| | Ken carried out his National Service in Singapore. On his return he worked on telegraphs before joining the fitting teams. His next step was construction before moving to exchange maintenance at Sale ATE. His final move was to Trafford and Longford where he carried out TO(a) duties. He remained at Longford until he retired. Ken was one of the few people to be awarded The BT Imperial Service Medal. |
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| July 2017 |
Information from: Ron Dawson & Mike Norris |
 | | Paul Reay |
| | Paul spent most of his BT life working in Dalton on the 3rd Floor, Dial House. |
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| June 2017 |
Information from: John Coop |
 | | Jim Purvis |
| | Jim worked in Manchester on External Planning. He spent his last 15 years of employment at the Training School in Didsbury as Instructor on UG installation. |
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| April 2017 |
Information from: Ged Morris |
 | | Lol Williamson |
| | Lol will be widely and greatly remembered as both secretary and chairman of the Manchester Central Internal branch of the POEU / NCU.
Before his Union duties, Lol worked on Trunk Auto rota duties in Rutherford House, Manchester.
Following his Union duties, Lol was a manager in Dial House. Lol was also one of the founders of BTMRstaff. |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Glynn Fletcher |
 | | Colin Cordon |
| | Colin worked latterly in Stockport RSC and retired about 20 years ago. |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Alan Collinge |
 | | Neil Higgins |
| | Neil spent the later half of his career working for Cellnet/O2 most will remember him from his time in Piccadilly exchange where he worked until the early 1980's |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Bill Bailey |
 | | Dave Robinson |
| | Dave was a T2A on Subs Maintenance back in the 70's on Longford, Trafford and Chorlton areas and transferred over onto Sales for several years before leaving the firm and going self employed. |
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| March 2017 |
Information from: Pete McDougall |
 | | Pete Carruthers |
| | Pete was a senior manager in BT Managed Network Services with staff based in Manchester. He passed away at his home in the Lakes. |
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| Febuary 2017 |
Information from: Bryan Roberts |
 | | Bill Bunker |
| | Bill was a larger than life character who worked in Dial house on Private Wires for many years. He continued his work with Openreach on the area his main focus was still Private Wires as one of the few people left with the required expertise. |
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| January 2017 |
Information from: John Regan |
 | | Tommy Hall |
| | Tommy spent all his BT life in Dial House, 2VF, Pioneer and Dalton. He was for many years T.O.A. in Dalton. |
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| December 2016 |
Information from: Steve Corless |
 | | David Stopford |
| | David, better known to us Des, worked at East ATE and Deansgate ATE. |
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| November 2016 |
Information from: Peter Swindley |
 | | Roger Mitchell |
| | Roger worked at Knutsford ATE and later on System X |
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| November 2016 |
Information from: Roy White |
 | | Steve Blake |
| | Steve started as one man installer at Radcliffe A.T.E.in the eighties and went on to become a coach at Pendleton |
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| October 2016 |
Information from: Mike Norris |
 | | Ian Staley |
| | Ian, initially worked Transmission Construction and more recently Transmission Planning on 5th Floor, Dial House |
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