On this day in south west Hertfordshire
Since the outbreak of war, Harrow Council have provided no fewer than 1,649 plots which with the 1,236 existing before the war brings the total of allotment plots available in the the district to 2,885. Thus, the number has been more than doubled in six months.
[From the Watford Observer of March 22, 1940]
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