SPADEWORK CONTINUES TO CREATE NEW BRIGG ALLOTMENTS

Legal formalities are now being completed to create a new allotments site in Brigg.
The plots on Woodbine Park, near South View Avenue, will replace those off Grammar School Road which feature in North Lincolnshire Council redevelopment plans.
The unitary authority is working with Brigg Town Council, which runs all our local allotments, to establish the new site on land once occupied by post-war prefabs before their demolition in the early 1970s. The land was cleared and a park created some years later.
The plots will only occupy a section of the park, and the current play equipment will be unaffected.
Our picture, taken in May, shows some of the land earmarked for fruit and veg growing in the future by tenants of Brigg Town Council. The scene has changed little since we recorded it after walking into Woodbine Park from Preston Drive.
We followed this route every morning and afternoon in the early 1960s while attending Glebe Road School when our family lived in one of the prefabs. No 16 was close to the back gardens of properties on Hawthorn Avenue but we had good friends who lived in prefabs that occupied the land soon to be re-purposed for the new allotments.
The well-established allotments on Atherton Way/Redcombe Lane will continue after those on Grammar School Road have been vacated and the new site established on Woodbine Park.