Impression sketch
of Mount Pleasant Sorting Office - by Jamie. See original at: http://www.cityroadonline.co.uk/history-mount-pleasant-sorting-office/
Built on the site
of Coldbaths Field Prison,
As result of the
Post Office Act,
The Mount
Pleasant Post Office became
One of the
largest sorting offices
Across the world.
Opening in August
1889 on 12 acre site -
By 1915 to be highly involved
By 1915 to be highly involved
In war effort - witness
to soldier's post
Passing through
from
Front to home.
Monday 6
September 1915 saw dawn,
On an early autumn
day -
Business was usual, with one of the sorting
rooms on an upper Level,
With 30 men working.
Business was usual, with one of the sorting
rooms on an upper Level,
With 30 men working.
Amid the packages
was evidently
A wrapped shell -
Within the
vicinity were two offices
And a Mr Fox, a
post office
Overseer.
One soldier’s packed relic of war front
Exploded - with
injuries
To Captain Baker, losing three fingers,
Along with one
thumb,
Blown off.
As seriously injured in
the explosion
Was General
O'Callaghan,
Who was taken to
Royal Free Hospital,
With shrapnel
wounds,
To his arm.
Less seriously,
Mr Fox suffered
with an injury to his
left hand,
But did not need
to stay at the hospital -
No other injuries were made,
Nor damage to the building.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Explosion of War Relic - General
Injured. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 7 September. P.10. Col.3. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11817077/Daily-Telegraph-September-7-1915.html
[Accessed: 7 September 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 7 September 2015).
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