Allotments in times of crisis
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Occasionally, as in the two world wars, the function of allotments as an alleviation of individual poverty has been extended to cover their role in the task of surmounting a national food crisis. But inevitably, as soon as such a crisis has passed, their original, traditional and individual purpose would re-emerge.
According to the Sunday Mercury on 17 October 1965, ¶®ÒõµÛ Corporation controlled 10,931 plots on 161 sites covering 984 acres. The paper's resident gardening expert Jim Pearce, said, "A lot of allotment land in ¶®ÒõµÛ is quite definitely idle and should be looked at according to present day priorities." That purpose included serving ¶®ÒõµÛ's growing population of flat dwellers.
Sunday Mercury 17 October 1965, p.10.
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