Dig this! 9 archive photos of keen Wearside gardeners as we celebrate National Allotments Week
We just love allotments and there’s a special reason to put the plots of Wearside and County Durham in the headlines.
It’s National Allotments Week and we are celebrating with a reflection on some scenes which we rooted out of the Sunderland Echo archives.
Giant pumpkins in Shields Road, a barbecue at a community allotment, and the official opening of a new site at Marley Pots. We have it all.
So if you are planning to celebrate our great allotments, why not start by browsing through our retro selection. It might just sow the seeds of some great memories.
So if you are planning to celebrate our great allotments, why not start by browsing through our retro selection. It might just sow the seeds of some great memories.
5. Helping out in Tunstall
Well done to these youngsters who helped to paint the gates at the Tunstall Allotments in 2009.
Photo: CA
6. Helping out at North Lea
Gardener Tom Race was showing his North Lea allotment to primary school children when this photo was taken in 2007. Liam Hepburn, David Ross, Megan Porteous, Matthew Simpson, and Jack Sanders were all in the picture.
Photo: KB
7. Ready for work
Al Hill of Groundwork (4th left) and members of the Burnside Community Allotment Society, Houghton in 2013. Recognise anyone?
Photo: Picture by Kevin Brady
8. So happy in 2019
The Just Let Your Soul Grow community allotment group was in the picture 3 years ago when it received new trees and got help with planting from Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins, with founder Jennie Franks (middle) also in the picture.
Photo: Stu Norton