Following Nick Pollard’s article in the September 2021 issue of Sunbury Matters, we received an interesting email from reader Richard Wood. He was intrigued by the reference to the telephone number of the Sunbury bank as Sunbury 4. He commented “I was a plumber until retirement and many years ago I removed a lid over a cold water tank. This also had an early telephone number: Sunbury 15, please see photo.
If you look very carefully under the word ‘Builder’ Billy Broom has written his name in pencil! The hole at the top of the lid, is where the hot water vent pipe came through, when it was the lid on the cold water tank”. Richard finishes with the request for information about who or which businesses had the early telephone numbers. If you know, or have any information, do get in touch. Email me and we can follow this up in a future issue: monica@villagematters.co.uk. Thank you!