Lots of fun, face paint, feast and fire engine at fabulous allotment open day Sunday 5 July 2009. See photos on this page. Fire engine stories and photos here and more fire engine photos here. Raffle photos & story here. More photos to follow soon, and stories on the kids fun area.

Over 300 people turned up to enjoy the food, fun and fresh air and sunshine at a fabulous allotment open day 5 July 2009.

They enjoyed food made with plot holders’ own fresh produce, including delicious vegetable and chicken curry, jerk chicken, rice and peas, couscous and a variety of Turkish dishes.

Children had a lovely time with a treasure hunt, face painting, and drawing pictures. Sheennagh Cowie from the Walthamstow Town’s Allotments Association judged the children’s pictures and fire fighter Dave awarded the prizes. And several people proudly displayed beautiful henna and glitter hand paintings done by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Adults and children were thrilled by the London Fire Brigade fire engine that came to demonstrate equipment for fighting fires and dealing with other incidents. One lucky gardener had his plot watered by the fire hose, and others had a go with the metal cutter. Kids tried on helmets and sat in the fire engine cab. 

Fire fighter George Bankes awarded the wonderful prizes in the raffle that were donated by local businesses, and we sold allotment honey jam, plants and produce.

Gardeners had worked hard to get their gardens ready to show off, and visitors had a look round the site and took the chance to chat to gardeners at work on their plots. They also looked at a photo display about the allotments, picked up free gardening information, and several signed up to the waiting list at the thriving and popular allotment site.

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