Piggery (Kett's Heights)

I have been meaning to publish this post for a while, well shortly after I posted about Kett's castle however I have been busy hunting and searching for new places to post about.

Anyway here it is.

A piggery on Kett's heights. I found this while searching for St Michael's Chapel on the heights. I thought I would post this on my site as it is a history that has been forgotten about. Today the site is overgrown with very short walls visible under the plant growth.

The piggery was a former stables which was converted at the start of World War Two when the need for locally produced food was high. Along with the piggery a concrete lined pond was used as a place to collect water for the livestock.

At the site of St Michael's chapel the flint walls are all that remains of a greenhouse which along with the piggery (stables) are all that remains of the height's previous use. Before being a place for food production, the height's were used as gardens created by the manager of the city gasworks which resided at the bottom of the hill. Local people used the hillside and gardens as allotments growing Alexanders which is used as a substitute for celery. This plant can still be seen growing in abundance all over the hillside.