Centenary Day

[binley100]

Some ofyou may be aware (mainly cos I keep banging on about it) that this is the centenary year for our allotment site. We are having an open day on Sat Aug 20th . from 11:00 to 4:00...the garden will be officially opened at 11:30 by Mr Horace Painter , who may not be known in the gardening community but has certainly done a lot to put Coventry on the map in other areas. There will be :-
Ploughmans lunches with ginger beer (homemade)
Afternoon cream teas
BBQ
Sale of preserves
Sale of cakes and guess the weight of the bread pudding comp
Sale of produce and plants
Chicken corner
woodturner
Bowman (longbows)
Honey
Raffle
Games ie tin can alley
Falcons
Grand raffle with excellent prizes
and there may be more ......

This is all taking place at the London Road Allotments , Humber road, Coventry .
Hopefully the weather will be kind and some of you will come along for a nosey

[dexterdoglancashire]

Congratulations on all your hard work binbags. If I lived closer, I'd be first in the queue to visit :-) Hope it all goes well for you.

[Florence Fennel]

Second that congratulations Binley, we know how hard you've been working so hope it's a very successful day, you deserve it.

[binley100]

Thanks guys

[Bren In Pots]

Congratulations from me as well, I've been clicking your garden link from the beginning so its good to read your officially having an opening.

[Glutton4...]

Bummocks - it's a week too early! We're up that way the weekend before.

Sounds well worth a visit.

[bearded bloke]

Herself & I will be there Bin's

[bobleponge]

Hope the weather is kind Bins, and you get the attendance your hard work deserves.

[FionaH]

Bit of a trek from here, but sell done and I hope it all goes well x

[binley100]

just bumping this cos I've noticed a few Cov grapes on .........

[binley100]

The local paper has been today to take piccies and take details. Hopefully for a big spread so will put up a link when it happens.

[Florence Fennel]

Look forward to seeing that Binley, hope you get your face in there somewhere!

[binley100]

I couldn't be there for this one . Andy had to pose all by himself

[binley100]

Todays paper ........

Community create allotment from scrapheap - Go Green news - Go Green - Lifestyle - Coventry Telegraph

[Glutton4...]

Nice one!

Great piccie of your Willow Arch too!