Reminiscences
The Day a Telephone Exchange died – Part One
It was ten minutes to eight on a normal Monday morning when an enormous explosion rocked the area and the Telephone Exchange was completely destroyed spreading over 200 yards of the…
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We’re moving slowly up the High Street to Oak Cottage, which was Pound Fold many years ago when it was two cottages. In my day, the smaller east part was called…
Read MoreDavid Gray’s Reminiscences of Mayfield and Five Ashes – Part 3
Above Oak Croft there were a wool shop, a coal merchant’s office and a cycle shop; I think all of them were probably run by Bachelors or the Bachelor family; of…
Read MoreDavid Gray’s Reminiscences of Mayfield and Five Ashes – Part 2
Directly opposite the Baptist Chapel front door is the Corner House which, in the 1800s, was a beer house called The Plough; then, later, our telephone exchange; and then I remember…
Read MoreDavid Gray’s Reminiscences of Mayfield and Five Ashes – Part 1
Awaiting text David Gray, January 2017
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