A WELL-KNOWN member of the Sneinton community and former Nottingham City Transport employee has died, aged 95.

Jack Butler, also known as John, lived in Sneinton all his life and worked for NCT for 46 years, retiring in 1974.

He even met his wife on a bus when they were both teenagers – Mr Butler was working as a conductor and Mrs Butler was on her way to work at Boots in Beeston.

"I was 17 and he was 18," said Mrs Butler, now 94. "He was a lovely man. Very popular and well-known."

Mr Butler contributed many letters to the Evening Post and the Bygones supplement, and in April 2006 we printed a story about his and Mrs Butler's 70th wedding anniversary.

Mr Butler started work on the old tram network in August 1928 after leaving school at the age of 14. He was one of the "point boys" who worked on Nottingham's old tram network.

In a letter to Bygones in June 2004 Mr Butler recalled: "My first duty was to stand by the Victoria statue, opposite the Talbot Hotel, and turn the points so as to enable the number three tram to continue from Chapel Bar down Wheeler Gate to Trent Bridge on its journey from Bulwell."

Mrs Butler said: "He was a conductor, then a driver, then an inspector, but he didn't like the job so he went back to driving."

The couple stuck together through the war and its aftermath, when Mr Butler spent time with the Royal Air Force in Borneo and as a coastal guard in Ireland.

Their hobbies included playing bowls, ice skating and walking in Derbyshire.

They were also keen cyclists – travelling from Sneinton to Land's End and back on a tandem twice.