I am lucky. I can walk to the end of our garden and sit in the sunshine on the cliff edge terrace overlooking Endcliffe Park. Through the yet-to-leaf trees growing tall from the foot of the old quarry immediately below I can see the road. Normally busy with all sorts of traffic it’s almost deserted. A lone car turns off Ecclesall Road onto Rustlings Road and a solitary walker crosses in the other direction. It sounds quieter than a Sunday morning, quieter even than a New Year’s Day morning.
This season OLD BLOKEY offers 3 core activities which can be combined flexibly to create a full day tour. All tours start at Sheffield railway station where OB himself will meet you off a train of your choice. You will then be transported to your chosen activities in the old allotment tractor.
SMALLTON and HEDGE END EXAMINER
No fire without smoke, no spark left unhosed
FIRE BRIGADE BATTLE 30 FOOT FLAMES ON TOWN ALLOTMENTS
By Reginald E Porter, Chief Horticultural Correspondent
Pensioner under gardener Doug Trench is at the centre of another inflammatory controversy on the Town allotments following a bonfire that got out of control resulting in the destruction of a shed of timber and a hedge of blackthorn. The Town Fire Brigade were called to the scene last Tuesday evening as flames 30 foot high engulfed the end of Mr Trench’s allotment.
Elephant in the cold frame? – more like ‘Mastodon crashing through the raspberry canes’ when this explodes across the front pages tomorrow. So I see no point in holding back the inside info any longer – remember you read this story here first!!
SPOILER ALERT – This is the last of 4 episodes chronicling the predation of 9 broad bean plants on Allotment 335. Episode 1 was posted on 20th April 2016 (below).
A number of you have asked about the extraordinary Allotment Committee meeting trailed in the last edition of The Examiner. The meeting was last week and I trust you will agree that for all right minded people it was one to miss!
With mixed feelings I am sharing a further set of extracts from the latest edition of The Examiner which covers the meeting and subsequent events in Smallton. I have no wish to attract the sort of criticism currently being levelled at the script writers of the Archers and am very aware of the potential consequences to my reputation of forwarding contentious political views dressed up as satire.
So this will be our last visit to Smallton ………. for a while.
SMALLTON and HEDGE END EXAMINER
No story is not a story – no manure!
EDITORIAL
Frank Lee Tosh, Executive Editor
The office of the Examiner has been overwhelmed by the response of readers to the article in the last edition about the vermin threat on the town allotments (see letters below for a selection of views expressed).
SMALLTON and HEDGE END EXAMINER
No story too small, no turn left unstoned
By Reginald E Porter, Chief Horticultural Correspondent
Mr. D A Trench of 24 Hop Gardens is struggling to come to terms with the loss of 9 prized broad bean seedlings in the greenhouse on the allotment where he works.
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