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Posted on behalf of Ron Suddes It is with regret to announce that Colin Adamson died suddenly in hospital on April 28th aged 73 years. A much loved husband of Sheila and a dearly loved brother of Jean and Elizabeth. He will be sadly missed by all family and friends. Friends were asked to meet at Sa...

Posted on behalf of Ron Suddes It is with regret to announce that Harry Robson died suddenly at home on 16th September 2016 aged 82 years. A much loved husband of Irene, dearly loved father of Harry, Susan and John, much loved grandfather. Friends were asked to meet at Mountsett Crematorium Dipton ...

Posted on behalf of Chris Clarke It is with regret to announce that Jack Scrivener, a former Aerial Rigger at Cheveley Depot and popular character, had died on Saturday 6th August 2016 age 96 years. A notice was published in the Newmarket Journal with the following information: "Beloved husban...

Posted on behalf of Eric Davies Sadly I recently learned of the death of John O'Connor who died on 23rd March 2013. He finished his service as RWE Northern Regional Office, a position I took over when he retired. All those who knew John know him to have been a good engineer and an absolutely smashi...

Posted on behalf of Derek Coombes Hi Folks Some will remember I opted to leave Cheveley ASAP during the dismantlement; a fantastic job in the offing, on the Island of La Palma optical telescope (INT) site run by Cambridge uni. They were keen to get me on site before Christmas, as staff wanted to ge...

Posted on behalf of John Leary I remember my time at the Weyhill Maintenance Planning Group (MPG) in the early to mid 1980’s with considerable affection. At the heart of its work then was the maintenance planning of the fixed and mobile equipments that were purchased by DTELS to support the WARC fr...

It is with regret to announce Ron Suddes has notified me that Fred Williamson passed away on Friday 8th January 2016 aged 80. The funeral service and cremation will be held at Birtley Crematorium, Windsor Rd, Birtley, Chester le Street DH3 1PQ on Friday 22nd January at 11.00am. Friends and ex-collea...

A family announcement was published in the Dundee Courier on 2nd May 2015 and can be viewed at this page

Posted on behalf of Peter Bridgeman It is with regret that I should inform you of the passing of Bruce Thompson who died peacefully in his sleep in April this year after suffering from Parkinson’s disease for some time. Bruce was in the RAF during WWII he served with the desert air force in North A...

Posted on behalf of John Leary Rod was certainly a member of the Stanton Depot team because I met him when I worked at the Wootton Hall outstation in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. From memory, I believe that he was outstationed at the Leicester police headquarters and at that time, had specific res...

Posted on behalf of Paddy Kelly I have just been advised of the recent sudden and unexpected death of Rod Attewell. I have a belief that Rod worked for the Home Office (Directorate of Telecommunications) earlier in his career as a WT, possibly in the Stanton region. Rod went on to work for Ascom Ra...

This is a retrospective posting regarding the death of Glenn Goodman who worked in the stores area at Kippax Maintenance Unit and was tragically shot and killed whilst serving as a part-time special constable on 7th June 1992. The following is a personal recollection by Gerald Swaby who was based a...

It is with regret to announce Martin Swift has notified me that Martin Lynch passed away peacefully on 12th January 2015, age 68. He leaves a wife, children, grandchildren and brother. A service was held at St Peters Church, Bartley Green on Tuesday 27th January 2015 at 11 am followed by cremation a...

Posted on behalf of John Leary I was saddened to read on the DTELS web site that Gerry had died at the beginning of the month after a long illness. It is always sad to read of the passing of a colleague who you had worked closely with during your career. I and Gerry for a short period of time made ...

Posted on behalf of John Leary It is only in the last few days that I have learnt of the passing of Jimmy Woodmansey in August of last year. I was extremely lucky to have worked with many gifted and dedicated people during my career with DTELS, particularly during my time at the Field Service HQ, a...