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Our waiting list is currently closed (June 2008). Information on how to apply for reference and information is here.
Thanks to our contacts with Volker Stevin (the contractors building the Prescott Lock) we were promptly notified that they had found the unexploded bomb on Monday lunchtime (June 2nd 2008). We immediately took the decision to evacuate and close the site, which was closed until Saturday June 7th when we checked that the official cordons had been removed
The bomb was found very close to the area that used to be allotments that we handed back to British Waterways in February 2007. Many of our current allotments lay within the exclusion zone. One of our members has an old Anderson shelter on his plot - we didn't expect it would be needed again.
We would particularly like to extend our thanks to the Army for their long, intense and obviously extremely hazardous work in dealing with this incident so close to us.
See this webpage or this PDF file for futher information.
You can contact the Secretary of the Society, Louise Joly, by email at louise@westhamallotments.org.uk or by telephone 020 7515 4964.
For images from the allotments see our flickr group
You can now find us on this map, we are in London Borough of Newham - but we are not managed by the Borough. You can use the search facility to also find your nearest allotment.
Website and domain created July 2006. Site last updated June 6th 2008