Saturday, February 17, 2007

The Origins of Allotments

As recently requested, click on the above 'Origins of Allotments' title to be taken to a site which explains them far better than I ever could. Ours, here in Faversham, date from when the nearby housing estate was built (sometime between the wars - around 1930, at a guess). The slowly-diminishing line of popular trees, which today still surround two sides of the site, possibly indicates that the field was previously an orchard?

2 comments:

Rita M said...

Hi Tim ,

informative site 'Origins of Allotments'

We get lessons in history :o)

http://www.eynsham.org/allotment.html

Beautiful pics :o)
http://www.eynsham.org/allottsnow.html

Thanks Tim

Best Regards Always,
Rita :o)

Tim Hopper said...

Hi Rita! Enysham does look to be a lovely little town (in West Oxfordshire, as I finally managed to work out). The more I look at that second pic down on my original link, the more I think it's an uncanny vision of how I wish my plot to look come summer - let's hope so, eh?! :o)

Kindest Regards, with added thanks for your recent comment to my Care2 profile! :o)

Tim :o)x

PS. They certainly got more snow in Enysham than we got here in Faversham - mayhaps due to us being closer to that continental warmth? :o)