Child’s Hill Allotment Society
Images from the site
Veg
Red cabbage find out more from this link to Wikipedia
Flowers
Oriental poppy
Find out more about Oriental poppies from this link to Wikipedia
Sheds
A make do and mend approach means people create unique sheds.
Find out more about international allotments from this link to Wikipedia
Plots
The allotment movement in England came in to being in the late eighteenth century, partly in response to the Parliamentary Enclosure Movement of 1750-1850 and partly as a result of the invasion of common land by the rural labouring poor known as the “Diggers” in 1649. The harvest failures of 1794-6 and 1799-1801 led to the first allotment movement, and the Swing Riots of 1830-1 to the second. The vast increase of manufacturing industry led to a move by agricultural workers from the depression-hit countryside to the towns, and there was an increasing demand from these new urban dwellers for land.
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Images
I'd like to develop
a gallery of allotment images here. So if you
have photographs of the site which you would
like to be included
please send them to:
al_lawn@hotmail.com
I cannot include many
so I will add what I can.
Labelled: Images for the allotment
File size: Make sure images are sent as jpeg's, 72dpi and no bigger than 700 pixels wide.
Details: Please include your
name and plot number
in the email and when they were taken.