New allotment venture in Flintshire

[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/

[Geoff]

Sounds like a good idea. Didn't know Flintshire still existed - spent my first 22 Summers there.

[alan refail]

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

[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.

[alan refail]

Hi Geoff

Yes it did.

http://www.dyserth.com/

[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.