The Rhubarb Triangle - where is it?
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Uno Hoo wrote: | ||||
No, Si. That farm used to be Tom Hill, Potato Merchants. I mean the one that stands well back on the left with a long track leaving Woodhall Road at a right-angle, with the golf fairways on the right. About 400 yards before the golf club entrance. Since the rhubarb days it was home to a fleet of road tankers for some years. I'm surprised and interested to read your comments about the plane landing up there. I'd never heard about that. |
That's the farm I meant, Uno!
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That's the farm I meant, Uno! |
Sorry, Si. My mistake. For 18th hole I read 19th, so thought you meant the clubhouse

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I like rhubarb and even tried growing it in Spain, but it didn't work. I believe it needs cold winters and not too hot summers, but at sea level near the Med, we rarely got subzero weather more than one or two nights together and in summer the weather gets very hot. I have had rhubarb pie in Normandy and have seen Dutch rhubarb here.
Getting back to the Rhubarb Triangle, I seem to remember that on Selby Road in the Garforth area there was a white house (reminder of Le Mans) on a hill and I believe rhubarb was grown around there. Can anybody correct me if I am wrong.
Getting back to the Rhubarb Triangle, I seem to remember that on Selby Road in the Garforth area there was a white house (reminder of Le Mans) on a hill and I believe rhubarb was grown around there. Can anybody correct me if I am wrong.
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peterg wrote: |
I like rhubarb and even tried growing it in Spain, but it didn't work. I believe it needs cold winters and not too hot summers, but at sea level near the Med, we rarely got subzero weather more than one or two nights together and in summer the weather gets very hot. I have had rhubarb pie in Normandy and have seen Dutch rhubarb here. Getting back to the Rhubarb Triangle, I seem to remember that on Selby Road in the Garforth area there was a white house (reminder of Le Mans) on a hill and I believe rhubarb was grown around there. Can anybody correct me if I am wrong. |
Don't remember rhubarb out that way but, you are probably right about growing - common practice is to lift the crowns in late autumn and leave them on the soil surface over winter to let them get well, bitten by the cold!
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peterg wrote: |
I like rhubarb and even tried growing it in Spain, but it didn't work. I believe it needs cold winters and not too hot summers, but at sea level near the Med, we rarely got subzero weather more than one or two nights together and in summer the weather gets very hot. I have had rhubarb pie in Normandy and have seen Dutch rhubarb here. Getting back to the Rhubarb Triangle, I seem to remember that on Selby Road in the Garforth area there was a white house (reminder of Le Mans) on a hill and I believe rhubarb was grown around there. Can anybody correct me if I am wrong. |
The house isn't white,but is this it ?
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=201039_170418&DISPLAY=FULL
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I lived at Carlton, near Rothwell, in the 1980s. The local grower (Oldroyd) considered Carlton to be at the epicentre of the triangle, and himself to be the King of rhubarb land. I remember my kids coming home with armfuls of tusky on day and, when I asked where they'd taken it from, they said they'd followed the tractor home, and just picked it up from the road as it fell off the trailer!
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The house isn't white,but is this it ? http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=201039_170418&DISPLAY=FULL |
It probably is the house I meant and the Leodis note does state that rhubarb was grown there.
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On the subject of rhubarb ....
Noticed that beside Elland road football ground there used to be one of the biggest rhubarb sheds I've seen (where the speedway track went) - seem to exist around 1900. Anyone know where the larghest shed was
Noticed that beside Elland road football ground there used to be one of the biggest rhubarb sheds I've seen (where the speedway track went) - seem to exist around 1900. Anyone know where the larghest shed was
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To answer my own question
http://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/wakefield/business-guide/feature/rhubarb-triangle-brewers-fayre/53902
http://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/wakefield/business-guide/feature/rhubarb-triangle-brewers-fayre/53902
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