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Old 23rd March 2019, 15:44
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When I started my PMG2 course at Manchester's College of International Marine Radio (Brook's Bar near to Old Trafford) in 1958, the college was run by two men, Woods and Tomlinson. After running the Brook's Bar venture successfully for several years they had decided to open a residential radio college to train R/Os in Cumberland - Wray Castle. Tomlinson left Brook's Bar to run the new venture, which had just opened, leaving Woods to run the Manchester end of the business. There were initial doubts about the viability of the residential course but by the time I went to sea, the courses there were filling up nicely and there was a growing sense of optimism.


Eventually it closed some time around the end of the 1990s but I remember seeing advertisements for GMDSS courses being offered there - you would have had to be some optimist to sign up for one of those.
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