Land settlement associations

[Hesstondriver]

Not sure if this is off topic really but I’m sure of interest to many .

fundamentally a social experiment to take workers from industrial areas during the depression and relocate them to small holdings across the country. Providing the holding, training and the market for produce.

Land Settlement Association - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The Sidlesham Heritage Trail, The Trail

There is a fantastic book based on our local LSA holding. ‘Go home you miners’.

and details of the Fen Drayton LSA can be seen here from page five :

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/media/7801/chapters-1-6.pdf

@onthehoof very local to you and I know you like a bit of local history

 

[grainboy]

Also at Potton, and Wyboston, beds,

 

[essex man]

My grandfather helped run the one near here, foxash at ardleigh.

 

[DanniAgro]

There was one near me, at Newent, which was very successful until the late 80s when imports torpedoEd its viability.
I knew one tenant, he wasn’t ex forces but a gamekeeper who bought his way in.

 

[glasshouse]

Not sure if this is off topic really but I’m sure of interest to many .

fundamentally a social experiment to take workers from industrial areas during the depression and relocate them to small holdings across the country. Providing the holding, training and the market for produce.

Land Settlement Association - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The Sidlesham Heritage Trail, The Trail

There is a fantastic book based on our local LSA holding. ‘Go home you miners’.

and details of the Fen Drayton LSA can be seen here from page five :

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/media/7801/chapters-1-6.pdf

@onthehoof very local to you and I know you like a bit of local history

Yes, thatcher fukked it
Same in scotland

 

[David.]

Didn't there used to be a lot of small Fen farms/market gardens established between the Wars, known as Troopers Pieces?

 

[Barleymow]

There was newbourne nr Ipswich ,we had a friend there lived on odd shaped tomatoes in the 70's

 

[essexpete]

There was newbourne nr Ipswich ,we had a friend there lived on odd shaped tomatoes in the 70's

My Great Uncle, Neville Belcham, was there growing tomatoes from the late 40s. To the late 60s. I am certain that was Land settlement.

 

[glasshouse]

 

[glasshouse]

That could have been written yesterday

 

[BRB John]

Only now they want to break up the land so they can plant trees and flower meadows so the townies can dance through them singing the hills are alive with music..

 

[Bongodog]

Yes, thatcher fukked it
Same in scotland

The LSA was on its knees before Thatcher, I went to school in the 70s with kids whose parents walked away from the LSA as they couldn't make it pay and thought they could do better on their own. They all soon discovered that didn't work either. Most ended up taking jobs elsewhere to make ends meet.

 

[onthehoof]

Not sure if this is off topic really but I’m sure of interest to many .

fundamentally a social experiment to take workers from industrial areas during the depression and relocate them to small holdings across the country. Providing the holding, training and the market for produce.

Land Settlement Association - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The Sidlesham Heritage Trail, The Trail

There is a fantastic book based on our local LSA holding. ‘Go home you miners’.

and details of the Fen Drayton LSA can be seen here from page five :

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/media/7801/chapters-1-6.pdf

@onthehoof very local to you and I know you like a bit of local history

Yep, I've got the book
Not sure who bought the site but lots of new houses on it now

 

[Princess Pooper]

There was one on the south side of Spalding, Lincs at Low Fulney. https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI125508

Recollections of the Land Settlement at Low Fulney by Monica Ilett - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

In the years between 1934 and 1939, at the height of the depression, over 1100 small-holdings were established within 26 settlements around the country. This was the Government of the time’s response to massive unemployment, especially in the Industrial North East of England. The scheme was set...

www.heritagesouthholland.co.uk

 

[Bogweevil]

LSA sites south of Chichester, Manhood Peninsula, I think, quite a lot of horticultural establishments still going.

 

[glasshouse]

The LSA was on its knees before Thatcher, I went to school in the 70s with kids whose parents walked away from the LSA as they couldn't make it pay and thought they could do better on their own. They all soon discovered that didn't work either. Most ended up taking jobs elsewhere to make ends meet.

No different from any small farmer
They should not have been sold or rather thrown away