I first met Jim when I joined the staff at Heaton Park Radio Station, where he was a rota TO. in the late 1960’s. He left to become an instructor at Didsbury training school, and I was a student on his very first basic transmission course when he was being assessed for the job. Many years later he was one of the first friendly faces I saw when I was promoted to management in St Andrews House. We were both working in the NOU in York Street when he retired. He often joked to me that he had been teaching me from day one. Gentleman Jim...RIP. Mike Dalton.

I first met Jim and Dee when Kate was 19. They have always been good friends and warm and welcoming to me and my wife Fiona. Jim was a wonderful man, as husband and father, friend, cyclist and as himself. Warm ,positive, outgoing, thoughtful, full of good humour and wise words, considerate, generous, loyal, very loving and kind. He gave to whoever he met much warmth, and indeed hope that the world could be a good place. All who knew him will miss him but his memory will remain as encouragement to all, as a man who had made the very best of life, and in doing so gave very much to others.

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