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The Lee Manor Society has had an exclusive peek behind the boardings at the demolition of Leegate. As this video and these pictures show most of the buildings have now been pulled down by two giant diggers.

High powered water hoses are playing constantly on the rubbles to suppress the dust. Once complete, the rubble will be crushed to be used as part of the foundations of the new development.

London Square has also fulfilled its promise to erect a bulletin board on the outside hoarding, carrying updates on progress.

Mike Nesbit is a brilliant local photographer who has captured some remarkable pictures of the birdlife in Manor House Gardens. He has kindly agreed to share some of them with the Lee Manor Society website. If you would like to see more of Mike’s work go to his Instagram account mick_nesbit_pics or his Flickr portfolio  About Mike Nesbit | Flickr

It’s been quite a productive winter so far in the LMCG. Recently, Mike Haste and I fixed both the broken beds (see above and below) and re-felted the roof, which was beginning to leak quite badly. 

Ann, Trudy, Farrah, Monica, James and I have kept the garden tidy, harvested the last crops (kohlrabi, chard and spinach), cleared all the beds and covered them with wire and netting to keep the local cats and foxes at bay… We’ve also sorted the compost bins so we have a better system, with some lovely rich soil ready to be mixed into a couple of the beds today.

Finally, we’ve planned what is be grown where this year and are confident that the place will be looking great in time for the annual Lee Manor Society Plant Mart on Saturday 9th May. 

Please see the Community Garden page for more details.

The sessions for the Spring this year are as follows:

(All Sunday 2.00-3.30 apart from the Plant Mart, timings TBC)

22nd February 

15th March

29th March

12 April 

26th April

9th May (Saturday – Plant Mart)

24th May

The February meeting of the Lee Manor Society is on Wednesday February 18th, at The Church of the Good Shepherd, Handen Road, Lee SE12 8NR (whose new wall is very nearly complete). It starts at 7.30pm.

Among the subjects on the agenda is the Plant Mart and Garden Party in May and an update on the Leegate development and London Square’s plans for naming it.

Full details can be found here.

Please also note that the AGM of Lee Green Lives is scheduled for March 3rd at 7.30 pm, in Manor House Library. More details will be available nearer the time.