For those of you who have an allotment on the Stonepit Coppice (part of the Chamberlain Estate within St. Ann’s Allotments) a very happy 150th anniversary. On the 27 November 1874 the Nottinghamshire Guardian published an extract from the Annual Report of the Nottingham Town Council Chamber Committee, and its creation of 200 plus…
This month we have had the privilege of receiving an article from our regular volunteer Paul, compiling the experiences of the artist Dame Laura Knight. My name is LAURA JOHNSON, and in this year of 1903, I will marry my fellow artist, Harold Knight. In the meantime, I love being here on Uncle Arthur’s allotment…
There are many early examples of improper behaviour on the Hungerhills. I was reminded of this by a notice found by volunteer Mo Cooper in the Nottinghamshire archives. Town of Nottingham Notice, dated 12th October 1815 Complaints having been made to the mayor and aldermen, that many depredations upon the property, and gross violations of…
The artist Dame Laura Knight is regularly mentioned in relation to the Hungerhill Gardens. Her Uncle Arthur was a tenant during the late 19th century, and, to her biographer, she recalled “Uncle Arthur bringing home washing baskets full of roses from his allotment at Hungerhills, enough to fill three cut-glass bowls followed by the harvest…
On the 12 September 1862, the Nottinghamshire Guardian reported that an Amateur Horticultural and Flower fete by “a society, whose object is the promotion and encouragement of Horticulture and Floriculture, has been organised, during the past few months, amongst the amateur gardeners of the Hunger Hills and its immediate neighbourhood.” The fete was held in…
You may remember that the Rev. (and subsequently Dean) Samuel Reynolds Hole was synonymous with the St Ann’s Rose Show at St Ann’s Allotments. From attending his first show in the 1850’s he came to know the rose growing secrets perfected by the local working men in their glasshouses on the Hungerhill Gardens. He became…