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 Inglenook. That was the home and office of Barrows, the builders, run by George Barrow, the son of the well-known master craftsman of yesteryear, Tom Barrow.…

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 course, a lot of Bachelors lived in Mayfield about the time I’m talking about.  The next house, which is called Ferndale and West View –…

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 Parkers Electrical business moved in there. But a short walk along the raised pavement in West Street is a private house called Little Shirley which, up…