About this website

The difficulties encountered in trying to contact former service and civilian friends from RAF Finningley hatched the idea of this website, the aim of which is to provide a means of communicating with other people having the same problem.
My name is Derek Frost and I worked at RAF Finningley as the GPO/BT telephone engineer from 1974 to its closing in 1995, during this time I met many people and made a great many friends. I am now retired and producing this web site was something I intended doing when I retired.

The pages are mainly self-explanatory, some only containing information, but the VISITORS BOOK and the NOTICE BOARD are there to help people make contacts. When you visit this site please make an entry in the visitors book, other people can browse through it, recognize names and obtain your e-mail address, allowing them to contact you, and you them.
Please feel free to make a comment about the site and any suggestions on improving it.

The Notice board is there for you to leave notes that may be of interest to other people i.e. section get-togethers', meets and events etc.

If you would like to e-mail me personally I have provided a button to make it easy for you, but please don't e-mail me concerning re-unions, details are on the reunion page.

The site is aimed at RAF and civilian personnel but I would also be interested to hear from other GPO/BT DTN people who I came into contact with during my working life at RAF Finningley, RAF Bawtry, RAF Lindholme and Northern Radar. If GPTN. AOTN, ATOTN, RAFAN, TASS, TARE, MEDIATOR, OATS, (that's an old one) mean anything to you, then it's you I am talking to. Please pass on the website address, and if you are still serving in the RAF please ask the CRO or in-station magazine editor if they could possibly publish the site address in the magazine. Sorry about the advertisements on the site, but you don't get owt for nowt as we say in Yorkshire.

Many thanks to my son Steven for his help in re-creating this website.

I hope to hear from you in the near future.
Regards, Derek