The council opened The Manor House site in 1973 which comprised of 60 plots accessed by a muddy track leading from the main gate in Manor House Lane, Yardley then branching off left and right travelling up and down the hill. During the early years the pot holed muddy track was covered over with broken bricks and rubble and eventually covered with a layer of tarmac.

The site had no other facilities other than a concrete garage with an asbestos roof. In time an old large shed was acquired and erected by the men on site and appropriately was called the pavilion, that shed still stands today thanks to the many maintenance projects carried out by the members, and it is still used today as a storage shed for our annual show equipment.

The earliest copy of minutes of a Committee Members Meeting was on 6th June 1979 at the chairman’s residence, the birth of our association.

In the 1970’s a Water supply was installed with 5 stand pipes built up and down the hill to furnish all 60 plots.

In the late 1990’s Electricity was connected to the site via a small meter cupboard located just inside the site by the main entrance gate, at a later date the electricity supply was installed from the meter cupboard to the old concrete garage which is now our site shop selling all manner of goods to our loyal members.

Over the past 40 years our association has seen the growth of allotmenteering bringing together individuals interested in leisure gardening into an ever-flourishing team of gardeners working together, not only working on their own plots but also assisting in improving and maintaining their allotment site.