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1910 at Upper Brook Street Manchester, his mother a former Huddersfield nurse, his father a Colour Sergeant in the Cheshire Regiment, veteran of 12 years in South Africa and Burma/India and Master Signaller instructor at the British Army signalling school in Poonah. The youngest of four siblings Reg was a normal adventurous boy who read a lot and grew up to be a studious young man with a flair for maths. He was also a devout Christian and a member of St. Clements Church Moss Side where he was treasurer and church warden. His first job was working for his uncle in his electroplating works where he became acquainted with the uses of electricity and in his own time studied evening classes at Manchester Technical College. After gaining qualifications in Magnetism and electrical telegraphy it enabled him in 1931 to gain a position with the General Post Office Engineering Department in
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Manchester. Many more qualifications followed and experience in establishing automatic telephone exchanges, working in 80 of them and being one of the youngest Clerks of Works in the country. His ability soon became obvious and in 1937 at just 27 he was seconded as a lecturer to Dollis Hill Central Training College, London. I should explain that in the 1920s the British Empire still arguably led the world in most things, and electronic communication although in its infancy was already beginning to develop apace. So much so that the astute Post Master General of the time identified that the Post Office needed improved facilities for research and that a permanent Engineering Research Station should be established. The treasury were persuaded and eventually agreed and in 1933 the Post Office Research Station Dollis Hill was completed and officially
opened by the Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald. This was in effect one of the very first Research establishments in the world, a think tank as we would know it today, where the best technical brains of the Post Office were sent. It was called ‘The new wonder house for experiment and invention for the improvement of telephonic and telegraphic communication’ and the motto engraved in the stonework above the impressive main entrance read To Strive To Seek To Find. The 1930s were years of rapid development in the telecommunications field and the various research teams at Dollis Hill made many important contributions. In 1936 the Speaking Clock (TIM) was designed and constructed there. TransAtlantic telephone cables were also developed there and links for outside television broadcasts such as the first broadcast of the
Remembrance Day Service in 1937. One of the brightest stars at Dollis Hill at that time was Tommy Flowers, who with his team put together what was in effect the world’s first programmable digital electronic computer, named Colossus. One of his team was Reg Wiseman. Colossus Mark 1, given the name because of its massive size, was later taken to Bletchley Park and reassembled to assistAlan Turing who had asked for help with his wartime decoding. It was a huge success and Colossus Mark 2 followed which enabled Turing to amongst other things break the German Enigma Code. With the second world war in full swing Reg was needed all over the country to assist the war effort. Bristol, Whitehaven, Plymouth and in Carlisle he set up the country’s first Morse Code training courses for service personnel. He spent much time between RAF Middle Wallop setting up
communications centre and plotting tables for the D-Day operations and Devonport to organise communications for the underground Combined Operation Headquarters. The limit of work was often 24 hours a day. His heart though lay back in Manchester with his wife Ethel whom he married in 1936 and his young children, so in 1944 he applied to be released from Dollis Hill to accept a Technical Officers position in Buxton. After wartime Manchester, the peace, beauty and clear air of the Derbyshire countryside must have been a godsend. An amiable man, he was highly admired and respected by all who knew him for his huge technical knowledge and ability and willingness to help others often at his own expense. Like many, Reg never spoke of his work exploits which were for the most all classified and covered by the Official Secrets Acts. He retired from the Post Office after 42 years and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal for services to the nation. He wasn’t a soldier or a hero but served the country in many other essential ways. A boffin probably, a backroom boy possibly, but certainly dedicated and a natural tutor, mentor and inspiration to a generation of young engineers and in later years I often heard the phrase ‘Reg Wiseman taught me everything I know’. Reg was a man of principal, compassionate, caring and charitable with a warm welcome and kind word for everyone. During his 42 years as a Post Office Technical Engineer he turned down numerous lucrative opportunities for promotion to London and even abroad. He was in demand but in the end not prepared to uproot his family from Buxton, St.Johns Church and the Peak District which he and Ethel loved. This was the man I am proud to call my father and I trust that through this article I can give him recognition for his wartime contribution to the country. John Wiseman Buxton
BASLOW CHOIR Spring Concert Baslow Choir treated an appreciative audience to a sparkling spring concert on Saturday 18thApril at Ecclesall Parish Church. The opening Haydn’s Te Deum introduced the celebratory theme of the concert and presented the well blended voices of the choir, demonstrating their ability to achieve the required volume to complement the orchestra whilst maintaining vocal quality. This was followed by another 18thcentury piece, the Mozart Mass in C – again in celebratory style nicknamed “The Coronation Mass”. Baslow Choir was joined for this performance by soloists Rachel Abbott (Sop), Anna Cooper (Mezzo) and Christopher Littlewood (Tenor) who appeared by kind permission of the Northern College of Music, and by Stephen Godward (Bass). Following the interval we heard a remarkable debut concerto performance by a talented young trumpet soloist, Francis Sinfield. Having played since the age of 7, Francis, still only 15 and studying for his GCSEs, performed with increasing confidence through the Trumpet Concerto in E flat by Hummel. The second movementAndante demanded considerable control through the sustained notes and following flourishes. He accomplished this, and the joyous concluding Rondo, with a sensitive maturity which fully deserved the loud and lengthy applause he modestly received. The choir next performed ‘Music All Powerful’, written and dedicated to them in 2005 by composer (and previous MD) Michael Coe, an uplifting, joyful piece. This was followed with a composition by the choir’s current musical director Andrew Marples. ‘Canticle of Praise’ was written in 2002 for two groups of performers in different parts of the concert venue. Baslow Choir were
joined by members of MusicWork Vocal Ensemble – an acapella group also directed by Andrew, who offered the echo response to great effect in this beautiful prayer setting, dedicated to the memory of Jane Ramsden. Stephen Godward also joined to give the baritone solo, and Robert
Girdler played organ. The concert was concluded with the ceremonial coronation anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’ by Handel. The full choir, together with guest soloists and MusicWork Vocal Ensemble gave their final rousing performance supported, as throughout, by the excellent free-lance
professionals of the South Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra under their leader Karen Hoyle, all conducted with consummate precision by Andrew Marples. This was an exciting, varied concert of uplifting music and the audience left with the memory of some magical moments.
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