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About
The Future of this Web Site
I am
Looking for a new Webmaster to assist with this website
When I first launched this site I was aged 74, it has been running
for about 6 years and with around 75 visits/day, it continues to
attract new members.
I have just passed my 80th birthday and with a multitude of
medical conditions, I have to think about the continuance of this
site.
So I am asking members for their views and in the process maybe
get some volunteers to become involved. Ideally I would like a
couple of people to join with me to form a 'Team' of three to
manage the site until I let go! Some knowledge of Coding would be
helpfull. Email me -
mailto:wm.rees@icloud.com
Historic High for BT Shares in 1999
It would appear that BT reached the high of
1,513p (£15.31)on the last trading day of 1999, amid a wider FTSE 100 rally
as the market was swept up in the technology bubble.
See also BT Privatisation
Listing history.
BT Head Office Sale
hots up as Canary Wharf eyes deal...More
Coping with the Cost of
Care: Often-Overlooked Tax Deductions and
Tips for Seniors and
Their Families
The information on this
website may be helpful to members.
When informed recent notices will be shown here and
details will be added to the Obituary page whether or not they
were members. Where possible Funeral
arrangements are included. Please send details to me.
Notices will usually be taken down after about six months, however
details of all of these notices are available as a list through the
Membership Functions\Search facility. They may be gone but through this
web site they are not forgotten!
Brian Bewley: passed away Abt. 9 Dec 20 in a
nursing home aged 85 my thoughts are with his family at this difficult time. He
was a TXE 4 TO at Worle and Weston Super Mare.
Informant: Roy Pearson 14 Dec on FB Group BT P & P UK
Eddie Brady: It is with great sadness that I write to say
that a good friend, former colleague and fellow member of the board,
former Planning Manager, Bradford, sadly left us on Tuesday night 8 Dec 20. I am
sure he will be remembered by all who met him for his great humour and non PC
management style, a delight I was able to experience for three years and will
fondly remember for all time. Due to restrictions regarding funerals it is hoped
that a celebration of his life will be held at a date sometime in 2021.
Informant: Peter Troy 11 Dec on FB Group BT P & P UK
Alan Thorneloe: Passed away today 6 Dec 20 he worked on
El&P Sheffield and Lincoln started 1970. No further information. R I P Al,
will miss ye.
Informant: Stuart Cobley on BT Sheffield FB Group 6 Dec 20
Sam Shore: Who retired to Bridlington some years ago. died last weekend
Abt. 29/11/20. Sam spent all his working life at BT and many of you will
remember him.
Informant: On FB Christine Cooke whose husband Roy Cook worked in BT
Sheffield external planning from 1976 to his retirement in 2003.
Selwyn Thomas: Sad news of the passing of Selwyn,
many happy memories in Bangor Auto in the 70'sNo
further information
Informant: Ron Edwards on FB 28 November at 23:05
Ian Cameron: an engineer for 20+ years sadly passed
away last month. He worked at exchanges in Bath and surrounding areas.
Informant: Ian's son Daz Cameron 29 Nov 20.
Diana Beckett: Previously of Warminster Wilts and a
retired long time employee of BT Sheffield. Sadly passed away on 6th November
2020. Funeral Grenoside South Chapel 30 November at 14.30 - Coop Funeralcare.
Informant: Pat Lomas in BT Sheffield Employees (past & Present) FB
Group on 19 Nov 2020
Anthony Talbot : My Dad sadly passed away on the 27th
October 2020 from Mesothelioma, aged 88. He was also known as Tony or Dick. Tony
worked for BT between 1961-1987 in Exeter and Devon laying cabling and pole
testing. If there is anyone who remembers or worked with Tony, his daughter
Catherine Young would love to hear from you, you may email her at
cyoungl@btinternet.com
Posted by Tony's daughter Catherine 11 November 2020
Norman Faulkner: Sadly Passed away 27 October 2020 aged
93. Before retiring Norman was a Subs Apps & Line engineer working in the
Macclesfield area(South Manchester). RIP Norman.
https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/faulkner/4888602
Jeff Horsfall
FB Group British Telecom past & Present UK
Roy Dyson: Sorry to have to post sad news, but John
Whitehouse has posted on the Chesterfield BT page that Roy Dyson passed away on
the 25th of this month. Informant. Mark Fisher FB Group BT
SheffieldEmplyees Past & Present
Informant:
Len Jenner: formerly of the BT Crouch End, Haringey, North
London office, has sadly passed away at the ripe old age of 96. Len worked for
over 40 years for the GPO/British Telecom, starting out as a keen telegraph boy
in central London and working his way up to executive level. He spent many happy
decades at the BT office at Crouch End at departments including personnel,
recruitment, engineering and finance. He leaves a family of three daughters,
eight grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
Informant:: Len's Daughter Sandra
No
Minis, No Gold Bars, This Time, Just Hard Cash - My Cash!!
Read more and
see what it cost me and tell me what it has cost you! Posted 25 July 17
Pension Stuff
GMP Information for BTPS members
reaching State Retirement age between 6 Dec. 2018 & 6
April 2021.
Read More..
RPI v CPI - BT
Pension News from BT press Release 19 January at 16:46
Section C members of the BTPS
will be pleased to hear that the court has ruled that RPI must
continue to be used. BT is "disappointed" and after reviewing
the judgement will consider whether to appeal. BT has confirmed
it will continue to use CPI for Sections A and B.
Posted 20 Jan 2018
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Recently Retired? Did you get
the Retrospective 0.7% Increase Included in Your Pension
Calculation? See More
DetailsPosted Jan 2018
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CPI
Inflation Rate
Figure released last week was 3% does this mean
BT pensions will be increased by 3%??
Posted 22 Oct 17
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A Cap on our Pension Benefits
-Another Threat to our Pensions?
This is serious and we all should be asking
BT and Pension Trustees some questions.
See More? Go to Pension NewsPosted July 2017
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BT Pensions - Trustee
Newsletter 2017
The Trustee Newsletter 2017 has now
been posted out to BT Pensioners and a copy in PDF format has been
placed on this website
Click Here
to
View. The Newsletter mentions a discretionary lump sum that maybe
payable on the death of a pensioner
Click Here
for
details. Posted
June 2017
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BT Pension Increase at April 2017?
I did not see any
reference to the 2017 pension increase in The Trustee News letter 2017,
however The CPI Inflation Index figure released October 2016 was 1% so can we expect the
increase will be 1%? The RPI index was 2%!!
Posted 28 Feb 2017
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Do you think that your Spouses Pension is
Absolutely Safe?
Well go to Daily Mail Article on Private
Sector
Pension Reform and Think Again! Posted 26 July 2016
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BT Pensioners Reconnect
and Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines are delighted to announce a brand new benefit
for BT and C&W members, offering a 10%
Discount, including friends and family
traveling on your booking.More
Details here Members Only, User Name & Password required. -
Not a member? Then Register Here
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If adverts are only of the
slightest interest, please do look at them as it can provide a very modest
revenue that helps me to offer free membership.
Notice Board
Members are welcome to use this Notice
Board for personal notices - Politics, Religion and any form of Abuse excluded.
Another Local Group - Last Thursday in the
Month Club - London North Central Area Retirees
More details
Cost
of Transferring BT Pension Abroad -
More Details
Researching GPO Staffing of WW2 Radio Security Services(RSS).
I have been approached by Stan Ames to help him make contact with anyone who
worked in RSS or anyone with knowledge of this Wartime service. Would
particularly like to know about the "I" Grade or Rank. - please reply to me:
wm.rees@icloud.com
Posted 28/11/15
BT is
to bring its Indian Call Centres back home from India
In a bid to improve its appalling customer service
record.
See more and get full report
Daily mail 19 September 2015
Did this actually happen?
Important Pension Information
Where there is a Partnership and
no Marriage. Did you know that you can nominate a dependent Partner for a
pension similar to that for a Spouse, when you die.Read
More Posted by Bill Rees September 2015
I have been trying to locate a
friend and colleague, BRIAN HIGGINS, for sometime and sadly, I have now been
advised that he died some 3-4 years ago. Brian and I worked together in Mid Reg
Datel Marketing in 1970's.
Many
more new members are required to make searches on this site more
effective.
Registrations
have now reduced to as few as 4 or 5 per week so I would like every member to
make an effort to recruit at least one new member.Click
the box Below. Please email to me the
name and email address of your recruit(s) so that I may confirm that your
recruit(s) has registered.
This website has almost 60,000 visits a year that is almost 5000 visits per
month.
Only a few of these visits result in a new member being added. Why?
Am I doing it
right?
I just do not know if this site
is meeting the needs or expectations of members.
Please tell me what you think
about it and say how you think it can be improved, what can be added and
what should be removed.
What Could You
Do?
It would be very helpful if
members would volunteer to adopt a page and be responsible for its upkeep
The CWU, under the
banner of, "Remember Your Pensioners, BT!," are
planning to negotiate with BT, for Pensioners to be offered the same
discount, on products and services, as are offered to employees.
A Plan 107 (A Boss/Secretary system) was being
installed and the extension telephone was to be situated alongside another
Telephone. When the job was completed the lady asked for a different colour for the extension telephone. Asked why? She said
"so she could tell
which one was ringing!!" a statement she repeated. The Fitter simply
adjusted the bell coils and all was well. (Comment; Did he mean 'bell gongs?' )
Story taken from a post on Facebook Group GPO Telephones
Cable
and Wireless Pensioners Associated Site Launched
The
BT pensioners site has been further developed to create an Associate Site which I
hope will prove popular with C&W Pensioners. Links between the two
sites will be provided for those with an interest in both companies.
Pensioners
Loose Out in BT Drive to
cut costs.On Wednesday 14 November 2012, I received my usual copy of BT Today
(Pensioner Edition) and it was with some dismay that on page 21. I read
that the Pensioner Edition would cease publication from this issue
onwards, because it can no longer be funded. Does BT really need to make
such meagre savings off the back of it’s pensioners?
See
A Point of View
This
site is principally to enable PO/BT Pensioners, employees and ex-employees
to re-establish contact with old colleagues.
been added to the
site and photographs are urgently required. Men/Women at work, in training
or at leisure could be interesting subjects. Jpeg format preferred. Upgraded
08 Apr 13, to improve presentation
and
increase capacity.
BT Pension Scheme
Declines to Publicise or
Offer any assistance with this site
More
Info
This
is the time of year when we are informed of the BT pension increase for
2013/14. My notice of increase arrived 24 April and as expected the
increase was 2.2% based on the September 2012 CPI measure of inflation.
This compares with:
The RPI measure of
inflation of 2.6%
The State Pension Increase for
2013/14 of 2.6%
Cable & Wireless Pension Scheme increase of 3.1%.Read
More
1.
A
former PO photographer, Pen name
'Si
Texen,'
in
the reprographic unit at 2-12 Farringdon Road in the 1960s and
70s,
2.David
Helsdon, a veteran of BT International (Faraday, Wood Street, Wren
House and Kelvin), published his first novel a few years ago, a
comedy-thriller called SHAIKH-DOWN under the pen-name of David
Gee. His second book, The Bexhill
Missile Crisis. has
now been published and is now available to buy as
an e-book from the Amazon Kindle store as well as in paperback
from your local bookstore or direct from the publishers to order a copy
as e-book or paperback click on www.davidgeebooks.com
3. Stanley George:
'Please Wipe your Boots' Now Available in Paperback
on Amazon
a
memoir by a 1960's apprentice and an essential read for all ex engineers. More Detail...
4. Roger Parr: 'Our Thoughts Entirely'
A collection of poems with a rich mixture of emotions - love, humour,
melancholy - and thought-provoking themes.
A
BT Retiree, David Wyatt, writes from N. Zealand to BT Pensioners Reconnect…..
I'm hoping that you are able to assist me I worked at BT for approx
17 yrs and emigrated in 1982.
Click on link below for more
information and a 10% Discount
with The Genealogist
Are
you a World War II Veteran or do you know someone who is?
A
former WWII Lancaster Bomber Crew Member, Ted Cachart, has contacted me to help publicise
grants that are available from the Big Lottery Fund to enable veterans
and their widows/widowers to pay a remembrance visit to the area in which
they served. Applications can be made if a grant has not been received since
2009. Grants range from £330 - £5500
(for Far East Visits)
The Big Lottery Fund Tel. No. is 0845 00 00121
Would you like to make contact with some old colleague in particular? If so let me have details to post the name here
This
Website which is independent of BT, receives no financial support from any
source and is entirely funded by me Bill
Rees who developed the site.
You
can now search for former
colleagues by Surname only,
as well as First Name and
Surname
Now that you have visited the site, please
become a member, even
if you feel that you won't revisit very often. Increasing the number of
members improves the functionality of the site.
To gain an
appreciation of the whole site and to understand how it could develop.
Please do browse other pages
via the links at
top & bottom of
this page
