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I was brought up a couple of miles from those smallholdings. One of the tenants had an old van and he used to deliver veggies to our road.
None of that pak choi stuff. It was spuds and whatever was in season.
Maybe someone could do this with milk....
Chris | 18.03.17 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Some years ago now I was told by a lady who had been born in that area, that the road through the area of Littlle Woodcote was known as the Egg Run, many of the smallholdings keeping chickens.
This name is always used in our house,for directions. -'Across the egg run and up to the lavender fields' sounds much better than take the A something road,don't you think?
Jo W | 18.03.17 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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When you stepped from Boundary Road onto Telegraph Track you crossed into London's Green Belt. Over the fields to your west was Queen Mary's Park, a country park on land that was formerly part of the famous Queen Mary's Hospital For Children. In the 1970s and 80s the hospital hosted a regular BBCTV progamme on Christmas morning with Noel Edmonds meeting the children.
The chalk of the North Downs lies about 18 inches under the soil but in Little Woodcote there are unexpected pockets of clay. I am told that this is spoil from tunneling when the Northern Line was extended through the London clay from Clapham to Morden in the 1930s.
RayL | 18.03.17 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Welcome back - and so soon!
Yes, Sutton Community Farm, my current bête noire, due to the machinations of the AQA Business Studies GCSE Controlled Assessment and its egregious demands.
The farm is a wonderful place, however, it is set up as a Social Enterprise, a business model where profits are invested back in the community, yet still relies on grants, and, of course, volunteers. Their website is to be applauded with Business Plan and financials clearly displayed.
I am not sure that it can become sustainable, and would be pleased to be proved wrong. As for this theme at GCSE level it has been a source of frustration for teachers around the country...
Ken | 18.03.17 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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RayL - You're right about the Queen Mary's Christmas Day show. It was Leslie Crowther before Noel Edmonds.
My brother featured two years running!
Not the same hospital stay, but a broken leg the first year, bone disease the second.
Chris | 18.03.17 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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oh, thankfully back to the "normal" DG posts...and not that silly brexit stuff.
Grumpy Anon | 18.03.17 - 2:03 p.m. | #
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Comments like that do make me more likely to post more of that kind of stuff :)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.03.17 - 2:47 p.m. | #
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Wow 15 years since BedZed - feeling very old... Love those vents.
Kevin | 18.03.17 - 4:56 p.m. | #
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We seriously looked at BedZED for a place to buy, but they're quite expensive for the area and Thames Water still struggles to contain the more airborne of their emissions from the water treatment plant. As in, some days it really stinks.
I used to offer up some Sutton suggestions, but I do believe that DG's done it all now.
Chz | 20.03.17 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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