The colleges at which we took our sea-going qualifications (the ‘ticket!’ are a subject of great interest to many former R/O’s. We are attempting to construct a comprehensive archive of college memories. If you have anything you can contribute please get in touch via the ROA website contact page. Some of the pictures illustrating collges have been used in QSO magazine and also in the Long Silence Falls but are worth repeating in for these pages.
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Regrettably my memory doesn’t provide me with any level of detail about my time there but in 1964 I up-graded my 2nd Class PMG to a 1st Class and got my Radar Maintenance Certificate at South Shilelds Marine and Technical College. I remember the name of only one lecturer, Jimmy Doig, who ran the radar course and he was excellent and a veritable joy to learn with. As is the way of ageing memories, I suspect that other names will drift into my consciousness as time passes. At that time the college had at least one class of youngsters taking combined PMG and C & G courses, not all of them will have gone to sea but there must be a fair number of retired R/Os around who started at the South Shields college and graduated via the Westoe.
I think you might want to add Northern Counties Radio School in Preston Lancashire to your list of training schools, hopefully there are still some ex R/O’s who went there.