Mr Ivor P. Gillson (DIC 1957)

Provided by Mrs Doreen Gillson

Ivor Peter Gillson BSc (Eng) Hons, M.I. Struct Eng D.I.C.
1945 Goineda London University degree 1st Class honours.
BSc Eng Hons

Fulfilled his National Service with the Royal Engineers, serving as an officer in Egypt and Palestine.

1948 - Began his career working with B.R.C. in Stafford.
1949 - Qualified - Member of Institute of Structural Engineers
Gained practical experience in civil engineering working on site with Marples Ridgeway and Alfred McAlpine.
1956/7 - Took Postgraduate course at Imperial College. Studying for Diploma in Concrete Technology (whilst at Imperial College also enjoyed membership of the College’s Gliding Club).
1958 - Took a management course and joined the National Coal Board at their H.Q. in London.
1962 - Joined C.E.G.B. at Burymead House in Guildford where he stayed until his retirement, working in the transmission division and rising to become Chief Civil Engineering Manager.
From 1975 - 90 he also undertook occasional working in India for the United Nations in a supervisory position when a tower testing station was set up in association with an engineering research establishment  (S.E.R.C.) in Chennai.