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Pigeon Fanciers
 | pictured are Joe Close, and Billy Dove.
courtesy of Linda nee Close |
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Mr & Mrs Ward
 The gardens had always played an important part in the lives of the people of these communities, and especialy during the war years,providing wholesome food to supplement the rations.
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Mr & Mrs Robinson
 | gathering flowers in their Warrenby allotment.
this picture must have been taken after the war ended as growing flowers in the allotment was forbidden during rationing. |
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Edwins garden
 | | Edwin Burdett had an allotment down at the side of the bridge. I remember he had the most beautiful lawn in the 1950s |
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Wilfs garden
 | Wilf Thurwell a charming man who I met for the first time in the 1960s he had a smile for everyone, taken at the back of his lovely cottage on Coatham high street
Sheila |
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Pigeon man
 | Frank Johnson of widgeon street pictured outside his pigeon loft in the 1920s Frank sadley died at the age of 29 years
photo and information from his niece P. Bredley |
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Digging for victory
Digging for victory
In the 1940s most families had an allotment
where they grew all there own vegetables
Many kept pigs rabbits , and chickens.
Some had greenhouses, and grew tomatoes and cucumbers.
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Chuck
A splendid picture
of Chuck Thornhill
on his allotment,
courtesy of
Mary Ward
nee Thornhill. |
WARRENTOWN September 1873
THE CLEVELAND JOURNAL & SOUTH DURHAM ADVERTISER
Thursday, September 25, 1873 WARRENTOWN .
To the south of ‘Tod Point-road the ground is arranged so as to give each occupier a small garden where he can grow his own potatoes and keep his own pig.
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