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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Admin aka Dan on June 19, 2003, 12:33:03

Title: Where are all our sites
Post by: Admin aka Dan on June 19, 2003, 12:33:03
To replicate an earlier lost thread ...

Mine is in Liverpool, if anyone knows it, in Calderstones park.

Very nice location.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: gavin on June 20, 2003, 17:56:04
Hi - mine's in Seacroft, East Leeds - small and plagued by vandalism this year.

And it's on the webs too at http://www.keirg.freeserve.co.uk/diary/

All good wishes - Gavin
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Joan on June 20, 2003, 23:35:12
Mine`s in Retford, Nottinghamshire.  ::)
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Chloe on June 22, 2003, 02:39:12
Mines, in Northwood, Middlesex, just outside of London.

Chloe
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: stewart on June 28, 2003, 18:04:17
I'm at Accrington, 2 minutes walk from local casualty department of hospital - may come in handy some day :D
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: mellie on July 15, 2003, 17:45:03
hello, i'm new to this... I pick up my keys tomorrow
I am in Portsmouth. ;D
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Admin aka Dan on July 15, 2003, 20:29:36
Mellie,

Welcome to the site, and the world of allotments !
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: OP on July 16, 2003, 12:26:15
Staines/ Egham on the Middlesex/Surrey border.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Mack on July 20, 2003, 18:33:10
Middlesbrough / Just recently received the keys since work to them as been completed to erect steel railings and install very good “Site Safe” storage facilities.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: LynneA on July 23, 2003, 15:13:33
On the Enfield/Edmonton borders in North London - right by the A10!
 ;D
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Beer_Belly on August 26, 2003, 10:04:58
I'm in Leidschendam in Holland.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: legless on August 26, 2003, 10:19:22
Whitley Bay, in Tyne and Wear!
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: allotment_chick on August 26, 2003, 19:52:39
My plot's in West London, south facing on a gentle east-west slope.  Man, how I wish it would rain!  The new strawberry patch is barely started and the ground is like concrete.....
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: teresa on August 26, 2003, 21:11:41
I am in Northamtonshire like all praying for rain who knows a good rain dance.
A corner of a farmers field and the lottie holders can pump water from his spring when they feel like it. So I suppose its classed as priviet, the farmer sells his cow muck to the lottie holders. Nice bunch Teresa
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: traceym on August 27, 2003, 02:33:40
My site is in Walsall,west midlands,been neglected for the past three weeks due to me having a trapped nerve,but looking forward to getting back to it once i,m fit again.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Ceri on August 27, 2003, 18:59:12
Hopefully soon in Whitley Bay (hello legless!), currently  back garden has veg beds while waiting - allotment officer for the area reckons I'll be lotting by this time next year - I don't know if that is quick or not in terms of a waiting list - but I'm naturally impatient and WANT ONE NOW!!!
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: legless on August 27, 2003, 19:59:16
i'm at hillheads cerig and its not council run so you need to be on their list as well. if you go down to the allotment office/ shop thing on a sunday morning between 10.30 and 11.30 they'll put you on the list, do it now as rent is due in september and thats when some plots become free i suppose. its behind the ice rink next to the football club.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Ceri on August 27, 2003, 21:23:04
many thanks - legless - then nice lottyman at ntc does add you to the self-managed lists as well but a visit will always help - I'll pop down as soon as I can - went to visit the ones at Leg of Mutton, Monkseaton (by where the car boot sale is) and chatted to a few people - that looks a really nice site - all the lotties were well used and looked after - but like gold dust I think! A pity, cause its a 10 min walk from my house!! - if you still want boards I can get some scaffold board pieces from the yard for you if you want.  Cheers  Ceri
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: legless on August 28, 2003, 17:12:57
thanks for the offer Ceri, thats really very kind, but we have decided to see how it goes without the defined beds and just leave paths every 5 foot or so, the wooden beds look ever so neat, but its a bit like minimalist homes - they look lovely but i'm not sure they'd suit my random clutter  ;D

Yes, I went through the council initially and they put me on all the lists but i actually got this one through going personally and the man writing my name in a list (literally) in a dusty book - very hi-tech!

The ones at Monkseaton are lovely, you're right there. Where are the Nexus ones you mentioned?

As you're already growing veg i'll probably bug you for local knowledge of planting times etc now!! I am very new to this so very appreciative of all advice!
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Ceri on August 29, 2003, 10:33:00
If you come out of Whitley Bay metro main entrance, turn right and walk along towards cullercoats they are in a long line following the track line. There were some really well used ones towards the Lish Avenue end, but the ones nearest the metro were awful.  (this is for legless, and probably will mean absolutely sweet nothing to anyone else - sorry!!)
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: legless on August 29, 2003, 12:21:12
oh yeah, i never realised they were allotments some of them are so bad, what a waste.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: ina on September 03, 2003, 00:54:01
Hoorn in the north/west of the Netherlands. -Ina
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: Suze_O on September 03, 2003, 01:24:35
South East Wales - but not lottie - grow vegs in garden.  South West facing so loads sun but also (being Wales) loadsa rain, just sweeps in down the valley with nothing to stop it.

Clearing new space now for loads more veg space next year.  Would love a lottie but time wise, could not manage it.
Title: Re: Where are all our sites
Post by: good_life_girl on September 04, 2003, 14:28:25
Surbiton in Surrey - very lucky that the living room window of our flat looks out over the allotments so I can keep an eye on what's going on from the comfort of the sofa!