October 2018

Two Acts of Parliament in 1845 and 1882 encouraged local authorities to provide ‘field gardens’ for the ‘labouring poor’. The 1887 Allotment and Cottage Garden Compensation for Crops Act required county councils (then Lindsey in the case of Barton) to provide allotments where there was a demand. Following a further act of 1908 allotment land […]

Allotment sites I am familiar with are; Dam Rd., Barton, Clough Rd., Hull, Hotham Rd., Hull, southern side of Beverley south of Keldgate (a site under imminent threat of being sold for building some years ago but saved by local action), Ferriby Rd., Hessle, at northern approach to Paull village and doubtless others I cannot

The aerial view plan above is a copy of an ancient manuscript showing the town and port of Hull in the 14th century. The original is classified as ‘Copy of an Ancient Plan of Hull, reduced from a drawing in the British Museum, Cotton MSS, Augustus 1, Vol. 1, fol. 80’. One (of many) interesting features

A particularly interesting allotment site locally is the one in Hessle, sited at the bottom of a disused chalk quarry beside Ferriby Road it is interesting to look down and see the, mostly, well-used and valued allotments. This relatively small quarry was the ‘parish quarry’ from which chalk clunch might be taken by the parish

Am just interrupting Allotments theme to highlight something I encountered yesterday while walking Humber bank promenade at East Halton ‘marsh’. The series of previously large arable fields immediately inland of the concrete embankment flood defence are now in the process of being transformed into what will be a wetland nature reserve. This is a large

Although the above picture, taken from the internet, is of an allotment site near Middlesbrough allotment sites in Hull and Barton are well-used and, generally, well looked after. Each allotment site has its own organising committee and doubles some are members of the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners. Allotment sites are also supported