Welcome to the Technician Apprentice Training Centre (TATC) web site, you can use this information to find out about old friends, or plan reunions etc. The MOD trained a total of 667 apprentices through 28 ‘in-takes’ of the scheme giving each apprentice a broad range of technical skills, many of the apprentices went on to hold senior positions in the MOD and Industry as testament to the success of the scheme. The TATC was based at the Royal Naval Stores Deport (RNSD) Copenacre and looked like this:

Following the sale of the RNSD Copenacre site, it has been scheduled for development probably housing for the Corsham area and recently (2016) has development work started. Most TATC apprentices worked an 9-week on 9-week off block release scheme through Bath (the then) Technical College and during the 9-week working periods they had placements at MOD establishments such as Copenacre, Spring Quarry or Monks Park together with Dockyards and Armament Depots. Underground working conditions typically looked like this:

And this:

If you know of any inaccuracies, or would like to see more content please make contact so that amendments (contact link) can be made. If you have any information that can be added to the pages please advise and if you have any further ideas about this web page please send a message. Current News Sources: There is a TATC group on LinkedIn and a Facebook group too. You can download high resolution images from the Facebook group under the files section, or right-click the picture below and save-as to your own system.

1964 – 1st In-take (8)

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ALFORD

Nick

DALY

Don

BOND

Trevor N

FRANCIS 

John B

HARRIS

John M

LINSAY

Keith

PULLAN

David

RAWLINGS

Christopher 

1965 – 2nd In-take (9)

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BIGDEN

Colin

BOLWELL

Peter

BROWN

Dennis G

CARPENTER

Brian

GRAY

Martin A S

JENKINS

Dave R

MAGRATH

Larry

McLAY

Jim

WILLIAMS

Mr

1966 – 3rd In-take (10)

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ASH

Bob

BUCK

Geoff

BURROWS

Richard W

COLLARD

Denis J

GLANDER

John

GRAY

Alan D

JONES

Paul

LYE

Paul A

MATTHEWS

Kit

WEEKS

Paul (Barry) H

1967 – 4th In-take (10)

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BALL

Pete

CANNINGS

Paul E

DYER

Mr

GOODING

Mr

GRIFFEN

Ron

HARDWICK

Chris J

LEMON

Mike

MOORE

Brendon E

NEWMAN

David M

NEWMAN

Paul D

1968 – 5th In-take (9)

FOSS

Bob D

LUCAS

Jim

DORRELL

Bob H

RODGERS

Geoff

SLADE

Ken E

SMITH

David

STEVENS

Graeme P

TOWNSEND

Bob

WEEKS

Stuart G

1969 – 6th In-take (24)

BENNEY

David C

BOTTLEY

Martin

CLARK

Gordon

CRITCHARD

Simon D

DAVIS

Jon C

FARTHING

Pete F

GOODWIN

Ronnie

GRIST

Nigel

HUTCHINSON

Alan

KNIGHT

Dave S

LEE

Phil J

MORGAN

Andy

MUNROE

Paul

O'NEILL

Phil K

ORAM

Steve D

RUMBOLD

Trevor G

STOTT

Keith

STRATFORD

John A

TUTTON

Roger

WEEKS

Paul H

WHITING

Chris J

WILSON

Alan J

WILTSHIRE

Al

WITHERS

Derek A

1970 – 7th In-take (33)

ALDERSON

N R

ALLINGTON

Kevan J

ATKINS

Ian

BALLINGER

Trevor

BLACKBURN

R

BROGDEN

Paul B

CALLAGHAN

G W

CLARK

Mike R

COLE

D R

ENGLAND

John R

ESKDALE

John P

HALL

G P H

HENSON

Stuart J

HIRST

P R

HOLLAND

R J

HOLLOWAY

Rich J

JEFFERRIES

E

LEE

Dave N

MAGGS

S W

NEWMAN

Rick

PURNELL

Martin

ROBERTS

Paul J

ROBERTSON

Steve

ROSE

W G

RUDDICK

Roy P

SAGE

C

SAINSBURY

Colin R

SHAW

Peter J

SHORLAND

R

STEELE

W H W

STREETER

John

TOUT

Jeff M

WALL

Pete L

1971 – 8th In-take (21)

BAKER

David E

BANCE

David

BARBER

Nigel J

CLARKE

Mike

FISHGUARD

Alan

FRANCIS

Stewart

GODSAVE

Mike

HOLLAND

Bob R

JAMES

Jesse

MERCHENT

Neville

MAGGS

Steve

McDONALD

Duncan

QUARRY

Steve

RUDDICK

Roy

SAGE

Colin

SAINSBURY

Colin

SHAW

Pete

STEPHENS

Phil D

THISLEWOOD

George

TILEY

Paul

WELLS

Geoff R

1972 – 9th In-take (25)

AUSTIN

Rob J

BARNETT

Roy E

BILTON

Michael A

BIRD

David L

BRAIN

M J

DAVIES

Evan J

EDMUNDS

Chris J

ELLEN

Robert M

HOUNSELL

Paul M

JONES

Keith B

MAYNE

John

MILLS

Boris J

MILLS

Robin C

MORGAN

Clive E

PERCY

Chris J

RIDEN

Michael J

SHORT

Alan J

SMALL

Steve J

SOAR

Andrew R

STEVENS

Timothy N

SWEENY

Russ N

TRIGG

Steve M

VICKERY

Andrew

WALLS

Pete

1973 – 10th In-take (27)

1974 – 11th In-take (23)

1975 – 12th In-take (20)

1976 – 13th In-take (22)

1977 – 14th In-take (30)

1978 – 15th In-take (31)

1979 – 16th In-take (26)

1980 – 17th In-take (32)

1981 – 18th In-take (18)

1982 – 19th In-take (22)

1983 – 20th In-take (22)

1984 – 21st In-take (32)

1985 – 22nd In-take (34)

1986 – 23rd In-take (29)

1987 – 24th In-take (25)

1988 – 25th In-take (22)

1989 – 26th In-take (31)

1990 – 27th In-take (30)

1991 – 28th In-take (39)

Bath Tech Lecturers: and their often used phrases!

TATC Staff/Lecturers

TATC In-Take Statistics

Entrance to RNSD Copenacre