The Siren
“She checked her garden and each possible approach to her house, finding that her usual secure feeling of this being her sanctuary had deserted her. By 9 a.m. she was watching two robins bobbing back and forth between the lowest branches and her vegetable patch. As she drank her third coffee of the day, she tried to take comfort in remembering how Harvest Path had a history of being a forgotten spot.
It had been in 1955 when the ‘Path’ had been bisected by an access road for the post-war spr...awl that developed on Cambridge’s east side. The major part of the lane had been left as a cul-de-sac, so the final six houses were marooned on the other side of the new road, accessed via an unadopted track that alternated between hard-core bumps and muddy ruts, or alternatively by foot across the allotments.
Since 1955, four of the six had lain vacant after plans for the new road had earmarked them for demolition. Eventually they had crumbled and in a rare reversal of the progress of urbanization, the plots they stood on had disappeared under extra allotments.MoreLess
It had been in 1955 when the ‘Path’ had been bisected by an access road for the post-war spr...awl that developed on Cambridge’s east side. The major part of the lane had been left as a cul-de-sac, so the final six houses were marooned on the other side of the new road, accessed via an unadopted track that alternated between hard-core bumps and muddy ruts, or alternatively by foot across the allotments.
Since 1955, four of the six had lain vacant after plans for the new road had earmarked them for demolition. Eventually they had crumbled and in a rare reversal of the progress of urbanization, the plots they stood on had disappeared under extra allotments.MoreLess
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