During my 30s and 40s my career took me around the country and in every area I’d put my name down on the allotment waiting list. I was offered an allotment in Manchester but I had already moved to London at that point. Here is a list of my allotments throughout the years… …an interesting note is my plot at Trewsbury Road Allotments. After many years I decided to give it up and when I reapplied to the council around 6 years later the only plot available turned out to be exactly the same plot I had worked many years earlier.
1990 to 1993 Dunraven Allotments, Rhondda; 1994 to 1995 Churchfield Allotments, Rhondda; 2006 to 2007 Castilon Road, Catford, London; 2007 to 2018 Trewsbury Road Allotments, Sydenham, London; 2018 to 2018 Lennard Road Allotments, Beckenham, London; 2018 to 2022 Forster Road Allotments, Beckenham, London; 2021 to 2022 Forster Road Allotments (Annex Site), Beckenham, London; 2023 Meadow Hill Allotments, Croydon; 2022 to 2024 Trewsbury Road Allotments, Sydenham, London. Currently I do not have an allotment but am developing a homestead on private land.
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The first day of warm sunshine this year and I’m standing on an allotment in the next valley over from my home. I’ve volunteered to buddy-up with a plot …
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A look around my miners cottage garden and harvesting leeks at the homestead and planting snowdrops.
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Looking back over the year on The Rusty Allotment during 2015.