The Departmental Party
This was held on the evening of Friday June 19th using a marquee outside the entrance to the IT building. Many past and present members of the department attended.
- Inside the Marquee
- Outside the Marquee
- Tommy Thomas, Tom Kilburn, Dai Edwards and Hilary Kahn
- Brian Warboys, Dai Edwards and Tom Kilburn
- Brian Warboys and Simon Lavington
- The Dewsbury Boys!
- The 1998 Conference Office Team
- The Class of '66
1.Inside the Marquee
2.Outside the Marquee
At the back is the entrance to the IT building; this is an Annexe to the
Computer Science building (on its left, see picture below, with narrow windows), connected by a
short passage/bridge on the top level. Electrical Engineering occupy the ground
floor, as an annexe to their Dover Street building, and Manchester Computing occupy the ground floor
of the Computer Science building.
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3.Tommy Thomas, Tom Kilburn, Dai Edwards and Hilary Kahn
To the right is Mrs. Thomas.
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4.Brian Warboys, Dai Edwards, Suzanne Siddles and Tom Kilburn
Professor Brian Warboys is the current Head of Department.
Suzanne was a "Punch Girl" in the Department c. late sixties/early seventies;
she married one of our graduates and they later moved to Australia.
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5.Brian Warboys and Simon Lavington
Professor Brian Warboys is the current Head of Department. Professor Simon
Lavington (XTS) of the University of Essex
has written books on early
British Computers, in particular "A History of Manchester Computers", a second
edition of which was published in 1998 to coincide with the Celebrations; this
is reproduced on the CD-ROM also produced for the
Celebrations. This book is one of the sources for these pages.
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6.The Dewsbury Boys!
Tom Kilburn with Mohammed Khalil. Both were born and brought up in Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
In fact Tom commuted by train from Dewsbury throughout the period of 1947 and 1948 when he was under secondment from TRE (and the winter of 47/48 was spectacularly severe). Given the temporary nature of his move to Manchester, he and his wife lived with his parents.
Khalil has contributed many of the photographs of the Party and
Open day. He graduated at UMIST, and was a Research assistant in Hilary Kahn's MINT group and now works at Manchester Computing.
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7.The 1998 Conference Office Team
Suzanne Briscoe (on the Left) and Neale Jones (on the Right) were
the full time staff helping Hilary Kahn in the 1998 Conference Office. In the middle is Neale's
fiancee (now wife). Suzanne is still in residence, in the same office, now
the MINT group secretary.
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8.The Class of '66
The second intake of Computer Science undergraduates held a Reunion Dinner the day before the Party.
CCo SYo RHa BPa KEY
* * DLe BBu ARo *JCl PBo
MKi DOt LDa PBu CBi SEd *
RWh GFr RPh
- CBi Chris Biscombe
- LDa Lucy Davies
- DLe Dik Leatherdale
- PBo Pete Boyce (now Tedd)
- DOt Dave Otway
- BBu Bill Buffam
- SEd Susan Edmondson
- BPa Brian Parsons
- PBu Phil Burke (now Clucas)
- RPh Roger Phillips
- JCl John Clucas
- GFr Gordon Frank
- ARo Anne Rogers
- CCo Chris Coatesworth
- RHa Roger Haigh
- RWh Rob Whittingham
- MKi Mike King
- SYo Steve Youle
* These are some wives of those present -- apologies for not identifying ladies not in the 1966 class.