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Nearly One Year On Here we are again, with Christmas festivities and razzmatazz just round the corner it doesn?t seem like nearly one year ago since I wrote my last rambling to say I was taking a break from updating this site to pursue other personal interests. For me this year commenced with long ...

It is with sad regret to announce that Paul Brittain died on Sunday 16th January 2011 at 21:45hrs following a period of illness. Paul is survived by his wife, Pat. Further details will be posted as they are made known to the webmaster. Webmaster Note I'm so saddened to hear of Paul's untimely death....

From Bob Witherspoon. I regret to announce the death of Bob Miller. Bob's daughter, Julie, came across my name and telephone number amongst Bob's papers and rang me in the hope that I had worked with him. Before moving to Durham Detachment, I lived in one of the Home Office houses in Whaggs Lane, W...

Memories of David Metcalf from Steven Cole By early 1984 it was a time of great change in the Directorate. The WARC programme to re-equip and migrate emergency service communications away from the 88-108 FM Broadcast band was well underway, which created many additional posts in the organisation to...

Memories of David Metcalf from John Leary I was immensely privileged to have lead the Weyhill Maintenance Planning group during the time it was dealing with maintenance support for the WARC changeout. The team I led I always considered privately to be my ?All Stars? and are too numerous to name her...

From: John Leary I'm sorry to announce the sad news that David Metcalf passed away earlier this month. Details of his untimely death were briefly published in the Andover Advertiser last week. Webmaster Note: David passed away peacefully at Winchester Hospital on 17th August and the funeral took pl...

From: Paddy Kelly I'm sorry to announce the untimely death of Cliff Wilson on Thursday 22nd July 2010. His daughter has advised the following funeral arrangements: Service and Cremation to be held on Friday 30th July 2010 at 1.00pm at:- Parc Gwyn Crematorium, Narboth, Pembrokeshire, SA67 8UD To be ...

From: Eddie Mole I am sorry to tell you that I have just heard that Mike Backhouse passed away around last Christmas 2009. Mike was based at Cranbrook Depot on the UHF Team headed by Ken Gasson. He spent most of his time working on Cossor, Burndept 450 and 496 base stations. He was a very good arti...

From: Eddie Mole I am sorry to tell you that Ron Edwards, ex Lewes Detachment, passed away on Friday 25th June 2010. Ron was a nice guy who would always help you out if he could and would always go the extra mile to help people. When he retired/was made redundant he used to enjoy riding his motorbi...

Thanks Brian for your replies. If anyone needs to post pictures or documents to this forum, please e-mail them to me and I will upload to the site.

Steven....

From: Mike Bull I'm a member of The Bluebird Project, the team who are rebuilding Donald Campbell's famous 'Bluebird' hydroplane back to working order. Among the few pieces that never came back out of the lake were the radio set,and it's aerial. We know that the radio was a Murphy A41 No.2, fitted ...

Message received via Mike Brain From: Margaret and Alison "Dad very much enjoyed his retirement in Herefordshire. As well as pursuing his various hobbies, he continued as a volunteer repairing Talking Books for the Blind machines until he was unable to manage delicate electrical work. He was al...

From: Mike Brain Paul's funeral will take place on Thursday 28th January 2010, the itinerary is as follows: 13:00hrs - Church (thought to be St.Mary the Virgin) Hope under Dinmore Herefordshire 14:15hrs - Hereford Crematorium For further information, please contact the funeral directors (Bayles) on...

OBITUARY - PAUL SMITH Paul (P.P.H.) Smith was born in Kent in 1921, and commenced a technical career in radio. During the war, one of his assignments was to Sierra Leone in West Africa where he was responsible for the maintenance/calibration of a roomful of HRO communication receivers used by the ?...

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