Rowan: Where you still at the exchange in Newhall Street when it had a gas explosion in the basement. Guess it was about 1960.
I recall the telephonists still manned the exchange, after the explosion, even though the rest of the building was evacuated due to the possiblity of a second one occurring, due to the continued gas leak. Brave ladies.
One fatality. I believe this was the caretaker who had lit his stove to brew his tea.
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