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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #20 on: August 05, 2007, 16:45:37 »
Hi Pigeonseed,

Yes, there are over 250 plots and some had fallen into incredible disrepair. The air photo comparison between 2003 and 2006 is dramatice though as some of the new plot holders have gone to huge lengths to remove what I can only describe as saplings!

We are organising plot tours in September. I'll post details nearer the time.

Hi Riffster,

Yes we get a ready supply of wood chip from local tree surgeons and the photo was taken in the very dry spell in 2006. Although I really have the OH to thank!

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2007, 21:27:13 »
That's good news - I'm glad to know they're on the up

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #22 on: August 21, 2007, 23:14:05 »
Bringing this up to the top of the board  ;D

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2007, 21:24:21 »
Hi fellow Londoners, I'm in Enfield on the outskirts of North London. We are situated next to a park and a cemetery.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2007, 02:39:43 »
That will be the dead centre of Enfield yes?  ;D

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2007, 20:56:07 »
The waiting list is that long Eristic people are dieing to get in here.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #26 on: September 05, 2007, 21:20:46 »
Park Road in Isleworth - anyone else in Isleworth, Hounslow or Twickenham??

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2007, 00:18:15 »
Hi, I lived in Isleworth from 1970 - 1985. Happy days!! Went to The Blue School and then The Green School. Didn't take much notice of lotties back then though!!
If it's Rosie's allotment - how come Muggins here does so much digging?

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2007, 07:56:40 »
Wimbledon, on the Gap Road site next door to the cemetery, very close to pigeonseed. Not that she's in the cemetey of course! We have 2 allotments having got the first one about 20 years ago now which is a bit of a scary thought.

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2007, 10:35:23 »
East Acton - although I prefer to think of it as Shepherd's Bush borders. We are on the Bromyard Avenue site, which is just off the Uxbridge Road (and if you know that part of town, the site is in the car park of the Virgin Active health club... only 15 plots!).

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #30 on: October 18, 2007, 22:22:49 »
Hi Weed-digga

My youngest son is still at the Blue School in Year 6 - off the Orleans next year.

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2007, 16:42:49 »
Sunny Walthamstow.

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2007, 16:54:57 »
I help my daughter with her new plot in Greenwich, alongside the railway into Maze Hill station and its platforms. It's a small site with water and a row of sheds, and I am very surprised at how run down the plots are. All we've done so far is strim down the weeds twice and dig some rough little beds out of the grass, and it already looks better than many of the others.

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #33 on: November 08, 2007, 18:11:48 »
hi all

my plot is middlesex  hayesend
were my heart is down at the plot

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #34 on: November 08, 2007, 18:43:47 »
Hi JD and welcome to the forum, Walthamstows not that far away mind you I only know the dog track.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #35 on: November 18, 2007, 23:46:22 »
Forster Road   Beckenham

not to far from Eltham

My grandmother lived in Beckenham for a while.
My dad had a plot at the Bromley (or was it Bickley) Lido. Fond memories of swimming there then going onto the plot for soft fruit refreshments (currants and raspberries). When the Lido went private, we'd go swimming at the pool Beckenham and then onto Gran's for tea.
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #36 on: January 23, 2008, 12:37:31 »
Just to add another Londoner - St james Road here - SE16 Southwark/Bermondsey.

Nicely situtated by a busy road!
Keep getting worried that the stuff I grow will taste nasty - or turn out poisonous!

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #37 on: January 29, 2008, 06:14:35 »
Abbeywood, South East London, about 5 miles from where we live.  A bit of a drive, but worth it.

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2008, 23:53:26 »
Well if we are talking INSIDE the M25 ???  Then I'm in here too  ;D about a 'spit' away from J19  ::) ;D
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - London
« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2008, 01:32:54 »
Right on the NW fringe of London - the countryside proper starts two lanes behind our house and we've still got a farm on our road (not working properly any more, alas).

I've put the pin on my plot. If you zoom in you can count the grapes & loganberries!

Anyone in the area fancy joining us? I'm plot secretary and I'm working my way through the waiting list....

Hi Trevor_D, we're almost neighbours, I'm in Rayners Lane! Newton Park West site.  :)

 

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