Not just a telephone engineer
January 14, 2012
Our next story gives an insight into changes in the British telecommunications world, beginning as the G.P.O. and later BT. The contributor began work at 15 in a factory in 1954 in Tottenham, but soon moved to the Parks department as a gardener and also worked as a bowling green keeper. He was always keen to teach himself new skills, which stood him in good stead in his work installing equipment for the G.P.O. (later BT). He worked his way up to Supervisor, and then became an Instructor planning and implementing new courses for telephone installers all over the country. After leaving BT he returned to gardening and maintenance, working with patients in a residential home and then set up his own maintenance firm.
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