This telephone exchange is located on the site of a number of previous industrial sites. In 1892 a brick kiln is depicted. This is followed by a quarry. Later Bradgate Colliery is depicted. Prior to this the area was agricultural. The pre-enclosure plan of 1796 labels the area as pasture and shows it linked to Masbrough Common. It was probably enclosed as part of the Kimberworth parliamentary enclosure award of 1800. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.