Dad started his love of allotment life on my Uncle Bill's allotment at Silksworth. From here he got his own in tandem with my husband john...this became his lasting passion. Some of his friends from the pit had gardens at the same place and they could all be found in dads shed..drinking tea and chewing the fat...putting the world to rights and arguing over many different subjects.... After his death, his friend Bobby came to tell me that on Google earth the pic over dads allotment showed him in the garden...he's there forever now..