A MAN has had a Bradford hospital facility named after him following 50 years of service for the NHS.

Paul Noble, of Sandy Lane, has worked at Bradford Royal Infirmary for half a century, joining the hospital in 1972 aged 15.

The hospital's main boiler house has been renamed The Noble Energy Centre.

Last week, the 65-year-old met with Mark Holloway, Executive Director of Estates & Facilities at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to unveil a plaque which cemented the name change.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: The hospital's main boiler room has been named after himThe hospital's main boiler room has been named after him (Image: Google)

Mr Noble, who is the Estate Manager for Operations and still works five/six days every week, said: "It was a surprise, to say the least.

"I am pretty sure nobody has done 50 years of consecutive service and is still working.

"I was the first apprentice Bradford hospitals took on.

"I am going to far too many funerals at the moment. The colleagues who were in their twenties and thirties when I first started are 80/90 now."

He added: "I started when I left school and I'm still here.

"The job has changed an awful lot, everything is a lot bigger and more technical.

"I look after everything non-clinical, so all the heating, lighting and building fabric."