Garden History

Many thanks to Susan Lynn who has worked very hard to compile this history which spans the first 100 years of our communal garden.

Download the complete History.pdf (650kb) which contains more detail as well as all the images.


1938 – The War

At the beginning of September 1938 the Home Office instructed the borough council to dig…

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1940 – Bombed

On 26 th September, 1940, between 1 and 1.15 am a incendiary bomb fell in…

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