West Allotments
I lived in High St, The Wynd and West Ave in the 60's and 70's, as Alan J says the allotments along the ridge that backed on to the 'Store Gardens' were there then and used by J Stewart, J Dagliesh, J Douglas, R Straker, W Bethel et al.
Just to the west of Cud McDonnells yard was a marshy area with a spring or water that came to the surface and slightly to the SW was an ash tip, lots of bottles for catapult practice, scrap metal and other house hold waste.
The field as I remember it was split into two which were separated by a line of elders, hawthorns etc which ran along the lowest part of the field, there was a gateway the east of the trees and a fence which ran around the eastern perimeter and separated the tip / marsh from the fields.
It was all possible to access the allotments in front of the Masonic Hall from the field as most had steps up and over a low dry stone wall that ran from the Masonic car park wall to the garden wall of 'Youngs' garden which is at the bottom of the Wynd next to the gas works entrance.
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