Pepper Place

Pepper Place: This road name covers a family who between them gave about 60 years to delivering mail in Kesgrave. The road was named after the middle generation. Jean Pepper describes the work as sorting the post in an old shed at the rear of the Post Office on the Main Road (now Bairstow Eves) which was very cold as no heat was provided and the first task most mornings at 5.00am was to chase the mice out from the building. She sums it all up by saying, “We were a happy bunch and enjoyed our work.” Her mother Mrs Pearsons spent about 30 years on deliveries, while Mrs Roe, the daughter and granddaughter, spent approximately seven years in postal duties.