THIS reporter was almost embarrassed to ask the chair of the First Avenue Allotments, where they were?

It was only when we found that gate at the far corner of Ladyshot, that we uttered “of course” and then remembered that we had been driving past down the A414 for many a year.

It was a pleasure to spend an hour in the company of Bob Hewitt and his team.

It was a pleasure to see all the different types of allotments and that people from all over the world, who had settled in Harlow had their little parcels of land.