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I worked in Southend, London & Nottingham over the years, in HQ, VAT, Investigation & Training.
Rodney Howard is not a name I recognise, but then I have forgotten so many!
Yes Rodney moved about a bit too...the old 'move to take promotion' civil service routine.
He had two spells at Southend, some time in Northern Ireland and Liverpool. He ended up '2 down from God' spending his time flitting back and forth to Brussels on 'policy missions' before finally retiring about 15?yrs ago to Suffolk.
He has been a good family friend for many years. When he was Surveyor in West Norfolk he tried his hardest to get my wife to push further up the HM ladder as he considered her capable of much loftier position. But any move to take promotion was always a problem for us ...as my job was too good a 'golden handcuff'....until they offered me serious 'bugger off money'. By then it was too late for Jans career as she had a brain tumour and had to retire early due to ill health.
Those were the reasons I switched to being a photographer/ graphic designer....so I could run my business from home.
Anyway, enough of potted life history thread drift. 😆
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Eric