Memories of the Gardens

I think this will be familiar to a lot of our shareholders and their children and even grandchildren.

Hi, My parents were shareholders from back in the 50’s and my Mum, Mary Atkinson was both secretary and then later I believe Chair, for many years up till her final illness and death in the 90’s.

As a child it was a paradise, you could play safely round the lanes with little or no traffic, go and explore Martin’s pond, catch sticklebacks in the stream, from where we used to fetch water in buckets and cultivate our own mini gardens within our parents. We also used to play with the other families, and I remember being taught to play the drums and shoot an air rifle – down the allotments. People used to keep chickens and even mink – horrible nasty things they were but we saw them all.

Thanks very much to Jenny for sharing this with us as we teeter on the brink of a new era. Hopefully future shareholders and renters and their children will see times like this again.

If you have memories you would like to share here or photos pleases email the blog