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New
Photo B'ham Anchor
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Hurd Seeking Contact with London External Engrs
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Occupational Pensioners
Project to build a
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have now reduced to as few as 4 or 5 per week so I would like every member to
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This website has almost 60,000 visits a year that is almost 5000 visits per
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Only a few of these visits result in a new member being added. Why?
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right?
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Please tell me what you think
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what should be removed.
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Posted
revised 27 June 2015
Communications
Workers Union (CWU)
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.
http://www.cwu.org/remember-your-pensioners-bt.html
Bank
Charges for Transferring BT Pension Payments Abroad
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This should make you Smile.
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?' )
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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.
A
Photographs Page has
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
Click
Here for a BTPS explanation of the effect of GMP on Pension
Increases.
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See
Telephone Kiosk No.6 Feature Page
Click
Here
&
Where old Red Telephone
Boxes go to die?
Click Here
The
CandW Website featured in CAWPA News Summer 2013 Edition does not seem
to be of much interest to C&W Pensioners.
Tell
me Why? wm.rees@icloud.com
BT People are New Published Authors
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...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/PLEASE-WIPE-YOUR-BOOTS-Irreverent-ebook/dp/B00V5C3Y7S/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1431255567&sr=1-1&keywords=please+wipe+your+boots
4. Roger Parr: 'Our Thoughts Entirely'
A collection of poems with a rich mixture of emotions - love, humour,
melancholy - and thought-provoking themes.
http://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=Our+Thoughts+entirely&search=Find+book
See
More...
A
Success Story
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.
More
on this Story
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Interested in Researching your Family
Tree?
Click on link below for more
information and a 10% Discount
with The Genealogist
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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
Ted
can be contacted by phone 01773 853181 or email: ted@49squadron.co.uk
Learn
about Ted the 15 year old Bomber Crew hero and his amazing and inspiring
story
http://www.fiskertonairfield.org.uk/photo2_2.html
The
recent death of Ted Cachart is reported on Fiskerton airfield web site.
RIP
Ted.
Can
You Name Them
Birmingham
Anchor People - C.1970 Can you name anymore people?
See
Also the Photo Gallery and Albums
Can
You Name Them
Youths
A or B Course - Bletchley Park C.1956/7
John
Jenkins is Back Row 3rd from left -are you out there somewhere John?
Photograph
supplied by Mel Smith
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Local
BT Pensioner Groups
See Local Groups page.
1.
London.Central Areas
www.lexpolobs.com
2.
London N. West
paulcoelho@dnis.co.uk
3.BT
Manchester Staff
www.btmrstaff.co.uk
London Centre /West End/Inbound
Group Advanced 0800
This group is very active and
has regular re-unions.
Marjorie Wann
- organiser marjoriewan@btinternet.com
Re-union Photographs are published
on this site Click Here
Who
would you like to make contact with?
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.
Thank you.
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