The New Community Garden

Here is a bit of the ground between two roads, the road you see and up to the left is the second one, going over the railway lines. The entire place has been a self sown wilderness which started out as a shrubbery when the roads were being developed. My dad (100) has lived around here since he was 17 and tells me that they took the railings away during the war, promising to return them at the end of the war. There is still a horrible, bent and stretched, old chicken-wire fence round it and the amount of rubbish that has been thrown in and not cleaned out is dreadful. The foxes have a lair there and the smell as you walk past is attrocious.

It has been decided that the first bit, enclosed by the bridge support wall, should be cleared and turned into a decorative space. The whole winter it has lain, roughly cleared but no progress. Watch this space for week by week pictures of it's progress and the odd pic of the surrounding area.