Join the Tring Allotments Association "Lottie" by clicking on the "Lottie" tab above. You will find a form to fill in. We need your eMail address so we can give you access to the Members section of the website, which we hope to develop further of the next few months, your plot number which we will use to identify you within the members section rather than your eMail address as we don't want to encourage SPAM and finally you address so we can send you your membership card and seed catalogue.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild Bt GCVO PC (8 November 1840 – 31 March 1915) was a British banker and politician from the international Rothschild financial dynasty. Known as "Natty," he was the eldest son of Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808–1879) and Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild (née von Rothschild). Natty was renowned for his public spirit and generosity. Notwithstanding his support for free enterprise, he embarked on a major programme of housing and improvement across his estate, effected by his agent Richardson Carr and the architect William Huckvale.
A hospital and nursing service, allotments and recreation grounds were among the facilities he provided. The estate became renowned for its Jersey cattle and its Shire horse stud, and for hosting the annual one day Tring Show, precursor of the Herts Show. - See more at: chilternsaonb.org
Description: Saturday 1st June 2019 - Plants Sale, Church Square, 10am to 1pm Saturday 17th August 2019 - Summer Show and Barbecue, Community Garden, Duckmore Lane Allotment site, 12 noon until 6pm Monday 28th October 2019 - AGM at Nora Grace Hall from 7.30 - 8.30pm. All welcome.
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Description: "Lottie" held it's first produce show on Saturday 03/09/2016. This, the third, held on 17th August 2019 was the best so far . Check out the gallery
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Description: Use the contact form for any website suggestions. By the way my name is Brian and I have plot no 48A and I am helping the committee with this site. Cheers bp
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Tring Allotment Association
Summer Show and Barbeque
Saturday 17th August 2019
12 – 6.00
Competition Classes:
Open to "Duckmore Lane" Allotmenteers Only
Tring in Transition is creating a new Community Garden near the Duckmore Lane entrance. For more information on the project click here
Membership of the Allotment Association is currently only £5.00 per year, giving excellent value for money. It is funded purely by membership fees and plant sales and therefore relies on this income to fund the benefits above – your membership would be greatly appreciated.
If you would like to join the Association or to renew your membership, please use the contact form.
Allotments have been in existence for hundreds of years, with evidence pointing back to Anglo-Saxon times. But the system we recognise today has its roots in the Nineteenth Century, when land was given over to the labouring poor for the provision of food growing. This measure was desperately needed thanks to the rapid industrialisation of the country and the lack of a welfare state. In 1908 the Small Holdings and Allotments Act came into force, placing a duty on local authorities to provide sufficient allotments, according to demand.
However it wasn’t until the end of the First World War that land was made available to all, primarily as a way of assisting returning service men (Land Settlement Facilities Act 1919) instead of just the labouring poor.
The rights of allotment holders were strengthened through the Allotments Acts of 1922, but the most important change can be found in the Allotments Act of 1925 which established statutory allotments which local authorities could not sell off or covert without Ministerial consent, known as Section 8 Orders. Further legislation has been listed over the intervening years which have affected allotments, the latest of which is the Localism Act 2011.