User:Frank Clemens

“Frank’s Lane”, Saddlers Way / Allern Lane, Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth, Devon. PL5 4PP

This used to be the end of Allern Lane, but when the Naval Estate was built, this part of the lane was blocked off, a new junction was then made for Allern Lane in Linton Road. Over the years it had become a dumping ground.

November 2019 I took it upon myself to tidy it up. There were tyres, car batteries, a large iron gate post plus a lot of other rubbish.

April 2020 I erected a sign with information on what I had done, I also added a post to the “Tamerton Foliot Community” page on Facebook.

It was well received by everyone, so I then cut through the banks of earth and rubble at each end to make a path that everyone could use.

May 2020, I found six horseshoes when digging on the other side of the hedge, I thought it would be a good idea to hang them from the trees for the children to find. June 202, I made three fairy doors and a fairy house which my wife Rosée and I painted and put into the lane. At the same time we added some animal ornaments to find. Since then visitors to the lane have added lots of painted stones, dinosaurs, animals, dolls, and many other items.

My neighbour gave me a sign for the lane. “Welcome to Frank’s Lane” and since then it has been know as “Frank’s Lane”.

I have created a notice board. The left side has information about the lane. On the right side are photos of things to find in the lane. I have used a plastic cover from a record deck to keep the sign dry, which can be easily taken off to renew the details.

i have since made and added to the lane two wooden seats. Visitors can now rest and enjoy the flowers and listen to the birds. October 2021 I made 5 nest boxes and put then in the trees up through the lane. This year 2021, their has been a lot of activity around the boxes, so far on box has had a pair of Blue Tits with their young.

May 2021 a local lady Julie painted and provided this beautiful painting for the lane, I made a frame to go around it to keep the rain and birds from landing on it.

Thank you to everyone who has given me plants, shrubs, trees, soil, gravel, shillet, slabs and wood to make the lane what it is today.

it has been gratifying to hear from so many people how the lane has helped them through this Covid pandemic, it has been somewhere to take the children, also just to sit, relax, enjoy the flowers and listen to the birds singing.

Pleas enjoy “Frank’s Lane”

There is a web site which you can go on to see more of the lane. https://frankrose.wixsite.com/website