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Reunion Group List
Copthall House Newcastle Staffs Meetings are held occasionally. Bob Green (01782 615290 or greenbob@btopenworld.com ) Double Majority Association ------------------------------ Meets annually The association is officially supported by Fujitsu. Formerly it was called the ICL Double Majority Association. The DMA AGM and annual reunion is held on the Thursday of the second week in October each year in Stevenage. The 2010 AGM and annual reunion will be held on Thursday 14th October 2010. A formal dinner is also arranged every other year, for those people who served the company for 42 years.
Joe Gardner ( 01438 362806 or joseph.gardner@btinternet.com ) East Grinstead 81 Club (so named from the year it was started) ----- 3 meetings a year We welcome wives and partners to all of our meetings. The first meeting, which precedes the AGM, is held in late April/early May. We meet around noon, currently at the Star in Lingfield, for a meal and a drink in the restaurant, which is private for our use. Although wives are invited and most welcome, they are excluded from the actual AGM. The dates and venues for the remaining meetings and the following AGM are decided at this time. We have a late summer meeting, again about noon for a bar meal and drinks. A Christmas Lunch is arranged in early December at the Star in Lingfield. Gordon Franklin (01342 328479 or gordon.franklin@tiscali.co.uk ) East Midlands UB40s The group meet the first Thursday of every month (1130am - 1400hrs) at The Woodlands, Blenheim Drive, Allestree, Derby, Brian Skeldon ( 0115 9725119 ) ExICL Kidsgrove --------------- Meets monthly A group of Ex Kidsgrove people meets monthly - at lunch time on the first Thursday in the month - at the Foresters Arms, 473 Crewe Road, Winterley, Sandbach CW11 4RF. About 8-12 regulars with another 6 or so intermittents - all ex software, mainly VME. Nick Edmonds ( 01270 585953 or nick.edmonds@yahoo.co.uk ) ICL Australia There is a group of about 500 ex-ICL Australia employees known (modestly) as the All Stars, who keep in touch by means of email and a regular electronic newsletter entitled the All Stars News. The newsletter can be emailed to interested parties on demand. There are regular social reunions, mainly in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Ian Pearson ( ian.pearson5@bigpond.com ) ICL Central London Group ----------------- Meets 6 monthly Meetings take place every 6 months in the Flying Horse at 52 Wilson Street, just to the east of Finsbury Square. Bill Williams 020 7607 9408 ICL Midlands Group ----------------------------- Meets annually The group meet annually in the spring at the Black Horse Leamore Heath on the B4210 between Walsall & Bloxwich at the Harden Road junction. Brian Trow (01785 257317 or brian.trow@homecall.co.uk ) Leo Computers Society The Leo Society has an interesting website - click here to view. The Leo Society organises reunions for people who worked on Leo Computers. The Leo 60th Anniversary and Reunion Event was held on 19th October 2007 in London. There are some photos from the event on the Leo website. There is an annual Pinkerton lecture at the IET ( previously the IEE) in London - a free public lecture. The 2009 lecture will be on 25th November. For more about the Leo Society see their website at http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/. Letchworth Group------------------------ meets monthly We meet the first Thursday in every month at around lunchtime (12.15 onwards). The venue is the old ICL Sports Club in Whitethorne Lane (just off Letchworth Gate) Letchworth. It is still a sports club but nothing to do with ICL now, but they still open up for us (drinks are available, but unfortunately no food). We have a mix of ICL people from various branches - Field Engineering, Management, Support, Development etc. We welcome ICL people from any branch of the company to help keep our numbers up! Dennis Evans ( 01462 811273 or den@whevans.plus.com ) Liverpool Engineers Engineers and Managers in the former Liverpool Region of ICL Customer Engineering hold a regular monthly reunion to which any current or past employee of ICL is most welcome to attend. The event is held each month on the second Wednesday at 12.00 noon in the Trials Hotel, Derby Square/Castle Street, Liverpool. As well as the usual beverages, coffee and bar meals are available at sensible prices. George Lynn 01744 29984 Oxford Region ------------- Meets 6 monthly Our gatherings are at the Bell (Hungry Horse) at Crowmarsh (near Wallingford), at mid day when you can join us for a chat and a nice lunch. If you are interested please contact: Ken Jones ( 01865 340388 or kenwynjones@aol.com ) Stevenage and Letchworth Old Boys Reunion Group -------------- Annual meeting in October Meetings take place each year on the first Tuesday of October in STE04; “The Stevenage Labs”. There is usually a guest speaker in the morning followed by a buffet lunch. All ex-employees are welcome. This group was previously called the Punch Card & Stevenage Labs Reunion Group. The 2009 reunion was held on Tuesday 6 October 2009 at STE04, with a talk from George Rowley, who was a designer at LDC No3 Factory Letchworth. The 2008 reunion was held on Tuesday 7 October 2008 at STE04, with a talk by Keith Crook entitled "From a house to a pinhead" which broadly covered how we got computers from the huge, slow and expensive to the small, fast and cheap. The 2007 reunion was held on Tuesday 2nd October, with a talk from Mike Stewart on the company. The 2006 reunion was held on Tuesday 3rd October, with a talk from John Harper on the Bombe Rebuild Project. These machines were developed and built by BTM at Letchworth for code breaking, and they had a crucial (but secret) role in the second world war. Adrian Turner ( 01491 872012 or adrian.turner5@tiscali.co.uk ) Surrey Engineers -------- Annual Meeting The Surrey Engineers reunion is a long established annual event where we get together for a good chat over a pub meal and a few beers. There are over 50 ex and current field engineers based in Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire and Middlesex on our invite list and we are always looking to add new members to the group - for details contact Trevor as below. Trevor Harding ( 01483 565144 or trevor@harding14.plus.com ) Thames Valley Club (TVC) at Bracknell (BRA01) ------ Annual Meeting Many pensioners and former staff are life members of this Company supported staff social club – for more details see the club website at: http://www.thamesvalleyclub.com/ The TVC has a member’s bar, and some pensioners can usually be found there on Friday evenings. Come along as a guest. The TVC also organises social gatherings for life members and pensioners. The 2009 event was a barbecue evening on 24th Sept 2009 - a fine evening and a well attended event. For more about the TVC please contact: TVC Club Administrator at tvc-admin@uk.fujitsu.com Tin Hut Reunion Group Occasional informal gatherings - see contact below. We have also published an illustrated article on this website about `Starting Work on the World's First Electronic Computer' - 1952 Memories by Olaf Chedzoy Group - Click Here to download (947kb). Olaf Chedzoy ( 01278 741 269 or OBChedzoy@aol.com )
West Branch Engineers We have been getting together on a regular basis since late 1986. We are all ex-engineers from the old Bristol West Branch from BTM to Nortel. The numbers have varied over the years, down to our present eight regulars. We meet on a Tuesday lunch time every four weeks at the George Inn on the A38 at Cambridge Gloucestershire. The best pub lunch for miles around. Everybody welcome. Just give me a ring. Eric Reynolds 01452 712047 West Kent Reunion Group ------- meets every 3 months Our meetings are on the first Thursday of April, June, August and December) at 12.00 midday in The Bull Inn Hotel, Wrotham Village (between Sevenoaks and Maidstone), Borough Green, Kent where bar food is available. We also meet three times a year at The Sennockian, Sevenoaks High Street, Sevenoaks, Kent at 7.30pm. Meetings typically comprise 5 to 12 ex ICL employees. Most of these have been engineers or managers with an engineering background, but not exclusively so. Our meetings are informal and friendly, and all are welcome from any area. Ron Harding( 01732 761076 or rjharding@onetel.com )
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