The Merrylee Story
Merrylee Plotholders Association celebrated 100 years of gardening in 2017. As part of a city wide heritage project, a few members of the Association delved into the archives to research and write the history of Merrylee and chart its development over that time. The Centenary Celebrations booklet reflects changing horticultural trends, the impact and importance of growing during wartime and brings us up to date with new developments, a changing membership and why allotments are still relevant inthe 21st century.
Our thanks to Joan Menmuir, David Carver, Ray Cartner and John McGregor for their hard work in producing this unique record of the life and times of Merrylee Plotholders Association.
This link takes you to book print lay out. in time we'll re format this into a 'long read'
We hope you enoy it.
Allotments for the 21st century
Last year we were delighted to welcome the BBC to Merrylee for the filming of the CBeebies show Dogsquad. You can watch Tinks run around the allotments helping her owner Charli with some gardening in episode 9, series 1 Mission: Sunflower Adventure or find it here.
Filming took place around the association hut and our raised bed area which is used by members with different accessibility needs.
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