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BCS	BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (formerly known as The British Computer Society) is the only Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology (IT). With members in over 100 countries around the world, the BCS is the leading professional and learned Society in the field of computers and information systems.
Bradford (Manchester)	The Bradford referred to here is a suburb in the 11th postal district [modern post code: M11] of the City of Manchester (itself now the centre of the County of Greater Manchester) - and not to be confused with the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire. In this part of (Inner) East Manchester, haphazard development during the rapid industrial growth of the late-1800s / early-1900s left the new districts (based on the old villages and hamlets whose names they retained) with curious boundaries interlocking like a jigsaw puzzle. Hinckley Street was (in fact, it still exists today) near to the southernmost boundary of Bradford, where only a few rows of the closely packed terraced houses separate it from any of the adjoining districts of: Beswick (), Ardwick, Lower Openshaw or West Gorton - roughly 2 miles due east of the city centre. However, the whole area now seems to be generally referred to as Beswick (). [ * Beswick in Manchester is pronounced with a silent 'w'.]
BSI	The British Standards Institution
Cortex	Logica's web-based Business Process Model (BPM) and Quality Management System (QMS).
Intellect	INTELLECT is the trade body for the UK based information technology, telecommunications and electronics industry. Formerly known as the Computer Services & Software Association (CSSA).
Logica	Logica plc, 250 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, RG2 6UA, United Kingdom Formerly LogicaCMG plc, Logica plc and before that Logica Limited. For many years based at 64/68 Newman Street, London W1, then at Stephenson House, 75 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PL.
QMC	Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1. Subsequently merged with Westfield College becoming QMWC; now known as QMUL.
Templeton's	Templeton Carpets Limited, a family run company based in Glasgow (at the ornate Crown Point factory building in Templeton Street - that was designed to imitate the Doge's Palace in Venice). Bert Dransfield (Arthur's father) worked in their Manchester showrooms for over 50 years from 1922/23 until after 1983. Before Word War II the showrooms were on the south side Piccadilly (where the Plaza complex now stands), but that building was destroyed in the Manchester blitz in 1940/41 - and the company did not reopen in Manchester until circa 1950, this time in Pall Mall House, at 20 Church Street. Templeton's also had a second 'label' as Stoddard Carpets, that specialised in the bulk supply of high grade carpets for commercial contracts (eg hotel groups; property chains, etc.), rather than the full range of carpet grades Templeton's supplied for normal retail/wholesale and special contracts work. Both ranges were manufactured in the same group of Glasgow area factories, and as economic and social changes in the 1970s/80s caused steady shrinkage of the traditional carpet trade, the two name were brought back together as Stoddard-Templeton - but soon became part of the Guthrie (Rubber) Corporation, as the Templeton family final relinquished control.
TickIT	TickIT is the UK based industry scheme for the effective interpretation of ISO 9001 for assessments of Quality Management Systems in the IT/software sector, based on ISO 90003 (formerly ISO9000-3).
Tintwistle	The last real village in Longdendale going eastwards on the A628 'Woodhead Pass' trunk road from Greater Manchester towards West Yorkshire. By the 1980s Longdendale had become administratively part of Derbyshire (as an extension nearly town of Glossop), although historically it had always been the north-eastern extremity of Cheshire - but from where it would otherwise have been isolated by the formation of the new County of Greater Manchester - but still retaining its Stockport (Cheshire) 'SK14' post code, and the curious 'via Hyde' format postal address - that simply reflected the hard fact that in bad weather the only usable road in or out of the valley would be the A57 towards Hyde (and Manchester). Even Glossop, always the most northerly town in the Peak District of Derbyshire, was so routinely cut-off from the rest of its county, and accessible only via Longdendale, that it too needed an SK series post code.
UKAS	United Kingdom Accreditation Service
ULCC	University of London Computer Centre, Guilford Street, London WC1 - the operational site for the university-wide computer services.
ULCS	University of London Computing Services, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 - the strategic, policy and funding organisation for academic computing services provision - formerly based at Gordon Square - no longer a separate department of the federal university. [The ULCS acronym is now used to the university careers service.]
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