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Background
This web site has evolved from a long held personal wish to record some of the department's history before senility creeps in, or the lack of information from other sources dries up!

Following early retirement at the end of 2002, I was able to make a start on the project by sifting through a quantity of documents that I had gathered during my time with the Directorate and to devise a structure and level of content that I thought would be necessary to make the web site (i) as informative and accurate as possible and (ii) to serve as a long-term reminder of a once proud and professional organisation by recording its history and the people who worked there.

By October 2004 after completing a number of priority personal tasks, I commenced publication of the first phase of around 100 pages and thereafter the site grew rapidly in size and complexity to around 1,250 pages of written and scanned material, plus 222 images by the end of February 2005.

Following a break to get on with other projects at the end of May 2005, site updates commenced again in November 2005 for 6 months and are currently planned to continue through the winter until around Spring 2007 starting November 2006.

If you have comments, constructive criticism, questions or importantly web site contributions, I will do my best to respond accordingly.

 

Domains
In respect of this project, there are currently four domains names registered in my name:

dtels.org
dtels.org.uk
dtels.co.uk
dtels.info

Web Hosting
The four domains are hosted by concisewebs4u on a UK web server and all web site hosting and domain costs are funded by myself.

Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Her Majesties Stationery Office (HMSO) for permission to publish crown copyright material originating from the Directorate, without which this site would not have been possible.

Note: HMSO is now part of the wider Office of Public Sector Information

Also, am am indebted to a number of people who have provided support in the way of material, ideas, feedback etc. A full list is given in the acknowledgements page.

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