Where are they now

"Where are they now?"

People from Burroughs Machines Ltd, Preston Branch

I worked from the Burroughs Machines office in Blackpool Road, Preston, England, from 1974 to 1981.

2011 BURROUGHS REUNION DRINKS!

A gang of ex-Burroughs folk met up at The Smoker in Knutsford - the last reunion in the North that I know of was a couple of years before that. They came from across the North-West.

From Preston there was Alan Talbot, Charlie Nash, Peter Happer and myself, as well as Bill Seddon and Keith Marsden who were the ones who made it happen.

My colleagues in Preston included:

Alan Talbot - Branch Manager

Norman Beebe - Zone Field Engineering Manager (Banks)

Gordon Briggs - Field Engineer

Ernie Burridge - Field Engineer

Ray Chatburn - Field Engineer

Peter Collett - salesman

Brian Dugdale - Field Engineer

John Fishburn - Branch Manager - got promoted to World Headquarters in Detroit, USA

Sheila Garland - Receptionist

Frank Goldsmith - Zone Service Manager

Pat Gormley - Zone Field Engineering Manager (Commercial)

Adrian Grayston - salesman - now running his own company

Peter Happer - salesman

Peter Hargreaves - salesman - co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, the financial services firm based in Bristol, UK

Gary Hempstock - Field Engineer

Ray Hill - Field Engineer

John Holt - Field Engineer

John Jenkins - Field Engineer

Peter Jones - salesman, Burroughs Business Forms - now in politics as well

Martin Jervis - salesman

Kevin Jones - salesman

Dave Kay - salesman (now working for IBM UK)

Max Kirkham - salesman - now a teacher at Arnold School

Andy Lowe - Engineer

Charles Marsden - salesman

David Metcalf - Systems Analyst

Tom Moore - salesman

Ross Morrell - salesman - now working for Atos Origin

Charlie Nash - Branch Manager

Ron Needham - Field Engineer

Mike Ohajuru - salesman, Burroughs Business Forms - now Director, MATERNA Communications

Graeme Parkin - Workshop Engineer

Eileen Phillips - panel builder

Elliot Ray - Field Engineer, who retired when I was still there

David Robinson - Field Engineer

Keith Sharp - salesman

Richard Stansfield - salesman

Lawrie Taylor - Field Engineer

Ged Thompson - salesman - now owner, Delacey Professional Services

Ken Tipper - Branch Field Engineering Manager

Alan Waddington - Field Engineer

Dennis Wadsworth - Branch Engineering Manager

Derek Warburton - salesman, Burroughs Business Forms

Bob Warner - Field Engineer

Gordon Whitby - Field Engineer

Graham Williams - Field Engineer

And here's an old picture of the Preston Field Engineering team that deserves to be up here too.

It was taken at Elliot Rae's retirement party. Click on the photo below to see the full-size picture.

If you see anyone in the picture whose name is not on the list above, please just send it in - or if that's you in the line-up -

get in touch!

One of the software houses that we worked with a lot was SAM Systems of Manchester.

Bill Seddon and Keith Marsden, who were two of our main contacts at SAM Systems, now run Gardien Ltd in Bowdon, Cheshire.

Bill Seddon

Keith Marsden

If any of you are out there, why not drop me an email and say "hello!" - or "get that picture off there!"