Title
Eastern Electricity papers of Alick Barnett
Reference
UK0108 NAEST 157
Date
1925 to 1995
Creator
Scope and Content
Papers of Alick Barnett who worked for the Eastern Electricity Board for most of his career. The majority of the papers relate to his work for Eastern Electricity which he joined as a Student Apprentice in 1964. He then worked as a Field Engineer, in various locations in East Anglia up to 1989 before being promoted to Operations Engineer at Whersted, Eastern Electricity's headquarters, where he worked until 1995. Most of the papers date to this period from 1964 to 1995.
The collection also includes some significant earlier material (1925 to late 1940s) related to Northmet which became part of the Eastern Electricity Board following nationalisation of the electricity industry in April 1948.
Exent
8 boxes + several loose technical drawings
Admin. history/Biography
Alick Barnett joined Eastern Electricity in 1968 having been a Student Apprentice with them since 1964. Between 1989 and 1995 he served as Operations Engineer at Eastern Electricity's headquarters. During this time he was involved with devising and delivering operational safety courses for both company staff and others operating high voltage electrical networks, including a bespoke training course for EuroTunnel Control Room staff, and formulating the company's electrical, operational safety policy. He also wrote Electrical Distribution Safety Rule Approvals and Operational Procedures for Eastern Electricity, introduced new Safety Signs and negotiated and wrote the Code of Practice for entry to Railway Operational Property which was adopted by the Electricity Supply Industry. When he left Eastern Electricity to join Linton (UK) Ltd., a power engineering consultancy service, as a Freelance Electricity Consultant, he continued revising and rewriting Eastern Electricity's Distribution Safety Rules and also wrote Electrical Safety Rules and trained operational staff at Essex and Suffolk Water, Tilbury Docks, Anglian Water, Ipswich Hospital and Crane Ltd until 2003.
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Subject
Conditions governing access
Please refer to IEE Archivist
Level of description
sub-fonds
