Remembering Mile Gully
published: Monday | June 16, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
AFTER READING the article on Mile Gully, it offered me recollections of my childhood, and how I remembered how sleepy it was about 55 years ago when I last visited my grandmother, the late Emma Dwyer of Inglewood. My father, the late David Dwyer would arrange with my mother to send me to Inglewood for summer vacations. The highlight for me was going to Greenvale train station to collect a package that my mother would send for me. Just thinking how I had to walk on those stone roads after leaving a short asphalt road in Mile Gully, makes my feet hurt.
I also recall how green and fertile the land was and the dairy farming pasture land that was the property next to my grandmother's. The way the locals lived "inland" from the roads, used to bother me somewhat. As a Kingstonian I was accustomed to seeing traffic which was relatively light in those days, but represented civilisation.
The surrounding hills and forestry was something that offered tranquillity, and a place to dream as a child would. Now that progress has come to the area, I say it's about time. Mile Gully and surrounding neighbours, congratulations!
You must not let your guard down at this time. Remember citizens first before politics. Thank you Mr Watson you'll be missed. Will someone please get the pump fixed a.s.a.p.? Don't you know that tank water is not good on the teeth?
