1940,s allotment

[minerva]

found this photo at the weekend while up at my sisters, this is my mother and friend down at her grandads allotment in the 40's, cute!

sam
xx

[markymark]

What a fab photo

I wonder if my sons on skateboards will look just as nostalgic in 60 years time? probably not.....

Apart from the war days, it would be fab to go back in time just to have a look how peoples really were, everything seems to have got so hectic, materialistic...droan droan etc  

[Hyacinth]

great pic, sam....aren't they having fun?!

wonder if your grandad had, in his back pocket, the little booklet (3"x4.3/4", 40 pages,) titled 'News Chronicle Pocket Guide to Vegetable Gardening by Albert Gurie - price sixpence'? and wondering if it might jog memories of Hugh/Tim? It was designed for 'lotmenteers,etc..the ads are fascinating..Albert Gurie FRSH also wrote 'Your War Garden' and wrote a 'special article every Saturday in the News Chronicle'. The booklet I bought for 2p at a front-of-house sale in the summer and is fully comprehensive -  got a wind and weather chapter, so that you can learn what the clouds are going to bring; garden friends & foes;longevity of seeds;catch cropping;crop rotation & successional crops - and the whole booklet is as thin as my mouse pad is high..

Am I jogging any memories here, anyone? - Lishka

[budgiebreeder]

6-45 weeknights Dickbarton Special agent Du deradu deradutontonton,Snowy and Jock.Say no more.

[Hyacinth]

and Journey into Space? and being frightened to go up to bed afterwards?

[budgiebreeder]

I dont believe that it wont let me put the name Dick in!!!!!!!I've done it 3 times I just do NOT believe it!!!!!

[ina]

What a wonderful picture, so glad you posted it. Is that a bicycle pump the water comes out of or am I seeing things?

[tim]

We could always call him Richard??

Ina - noooooo!! It's yer actual original brass garden syringe. Before the days of Hozelock. I had a better system when I ran my base's 'allotment' in the '40s (RAF Turnhouse) - I employed our crash tender, when there was no flying!

My olden day standby reference are;
  How to Grow and Produce your own Food.
  How to make Money from an Acre.
I was seriously thinking of 'doing it' when I first retired. Looking at the market now, thank heavens I didn't. = Tim

[Gardengirl]

What a great picture Sam.  Certainly brings back some memories for me.  Glad I am not the only one in this forum that can remember Dick Barton!!

Pat

[Gardengirl]

See what you mean Budgie

Just to be devilish ....Dick....Dick....Dick !!!:D

Pat

[minerva]

sooooo glad you all like my photo, it suprised me to find it, I did not really know my mother as she died when i was young, and to find a photo of her on the lotty really touched me as I thought it was just me who was obsessed, there is another photo of me as a baby with my mother and father in the veggie patch, surrounded by cabbages, (cabbage patch kid!!) so i recon it must be genetic

[budgiebreeder]

What about Paul Temple Oh! my mother told me all about the old favourites.Hammmmmmm Hammmmmmmm

[ina]

Ina - noooooo!! It's yer actual original brass garden syringe.

Thanks Tim. I have never heard of anything like that. Why did people use these and not just a watering can with a sprinkle thingy on the pour spout? Of course the syringe makes a better water gun for kids but I'm sure that was not the real purpose.

[tim]

- for one thing, difficult to pour water upwards?? Like with pesticides etc?

And other reasons! = Tim

[ina]

Ah yes! And the other reason then?

[tim]

- well - much the same idea - a can can't squirt a hard jet - or do a fine mist - or..................? = Tim

[Hugh_Jones]

Tim, we `acquired` a stirrup pump.  Took two of us to operate properly but it was pretty effective at up to 25 yards. Trouble was, there was very little to spray in those days apart from soapy water, quassia chip solution, and Bordeau Mixture.