How it all started

I have wanted an allotment for a couple of years and had put my name down on the waiting list for Newton Allotments and Grange allotments but was getting no where. I had had a couple of conversations with Margaret Campbell and Jane Marsden about what Transition Town West Kirby were doing. I had been looking out for redundant land which could be turned into allotments and one day when I went to the tip on Greenbank Road thought that the old football fields behind Greenbank Road may have been ideal.
A few days later I went for a ride on my bike around these fields. I sent an e-mail to the Borough Council who identified that the land was unsuitable as it had been a tip for brick and concrete in the 1980s when they knocked down Oak and Elden Grdens in Birkenhead, but they did identify that there was a piece of former agricultural land behind Coronation Buildings which they may consider allowing to be used for allotments.

Well that is how it began, over the next few posts I will blog the rest of the story so far and then keep everyone updated as to future developments.