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New allotment venture in Flintshire

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:30 am
by alan refail
With some of our North Wales councils having no interest in providing allotments, here is a promising venture.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w ... -26929103/

Re: New allotment venture in Flintshire

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:35 pm
by Geoff
Sounds like a good idea. Didn't know Flintshire still existed - spent my first 22 Summers there.

Re: New allotment venture in Flintshire

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:48 pm
by alan refail
Geoff wrote:Sounds like a good idea. Didn't know Flintshire still existed - spent my first 22 Summers there.


It didn't exist from 1974 to 1996 (part of Clwyd). Resurrected in a much changed form as a unitary authority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintshire

Re: New allotment venture in Flintshire

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:26 pm
by Geoff
Sounds like the bit I knew near Dyserth probably went with Rhuddlan into Denbighshire. Not been back to that area since my mother died in 1989.

Re: New allotment venture in Flintshire

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:07 am
by alan refail
Hi Geoff

Yes it did.

http://www.dyserth.com/

Re: New allotment venture in Flintshire

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:33 am
by Geoff
Thanks for the link. My Grandfather retired there in 1929 and as my Father was a teacher we spent all the Summer holidays there every year. When Grandfather died it was kept on for holidays and my parents eventually retired there also. It was sold when my Mother died and as I said above I've never been back. Some of the pictures are good and I remember the holes in the school roof after the blasting accident at the quarry.