• A second “housing crash” means that relocation becomes even more unlikely.

  • The builder who brought the Co-Op site has a fall out with the Bosworths and the Garden Centre, which was trading from in front of the Bungalow becomes unviable due to boundary issues.

  • Bosworth’s approach a landowner around the new Burton Latimer bypass to discuss a new Garden Centre site.  The site is around the Cranford Road and A6 junction

  • The Co-Op land is sold to a builder for development – the Garden Centre land is not included in the sale

  • Sam and Tania Bosworth are married

  • Detailed planning consent is submitted and granted for a scheme to include only the Garden Centre and Co-Op site.

  • The cold frames are replaced by the first retail structure on site, a steel framed polythene clad structure to sell bedding plants from.  Remarkably that structure is still there now and houses the coffee shop.

  • John Bosworth catches his paperboy one morning and tells him that it is time to start a proper job.  Rob Jarrett begins as a Saturday lad.  Rob is now our Main Landscaper, having learned a lot of his skills from John.  Rob and his colleagues are now constructing award winning gardens to very high standards.

  • Sam returns from college and on Boxing Day takes a sledgehammer to one of his Dad’s cold frames adjacent to the bungalow.  John was not amused.  Jill was excited about the retail opportunities.