Agenda
News articles from the GHS membership: what’s going on in garden history, parks and gardens. They do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of the Society.
November 30th, 2011
DEPUTY CONSERVATION OFFICER (ENGLAND)
As part of the reorganisation of the Society’s conservation and planning work, we wish to appoint a part-time Deputy Conservation Officer for England.
The Deputy Conservation Officer will work in close association with the Principal Conservation Officer and the Conservation Casework Manager in planning casework.
The Deputy Conservation Officer will also be involved in [...]
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November 30th, 2011
We wanted to keep Members informed of important developments following our AGM in July at Keele, and that of the Association of Gardens Trusts at Oxford in September.
Working Together
The Working Together Feasibility Study Group, comprising GHS, AGT, the Garden Museum and the Parks & Gardens database (P&GUK), continues to discuss a possible way forward towards [...]
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November 30th, 2011
Site of John Evelyn’s Deptford garden under threat
The site of the house and garden at Sayes Court — John Evelyn’s London residence by the then Royal Dockyard at Deptford — is currently subject to a planning application from a property developer which would see the site of the garden built over. A small group of [...]
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September 7th, 2011
AGM report
The Society’s AGM was held at Keele University on 22 July 2011. 70 members were present.
Messrs. Peters Elworthy & Moore were appointed as the Society’s Independent Examiners.
We are pleased to announce that Dominic Cole was re-elected to Council, and Patrick Eyres, Jeremy Rye and Michael Thompson were elected as members of the Council.
Peter Hayden [...]
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September 7th, 2011
Kristina Taylor
In the Non-Catholic cemetery in Rome, lying near Shelley’s grave, is a stone with a poignant inscription which reminds us of the dangers of trying to experience the thrills of sublime landscapes and why health and safety standards haunt our enjoyment of them:
Sacred to the memory of Robert the eldest son of Mr. Robert [...]
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September 7th, 2011
Mavis Batey
This was the advice of Clary, the proud Rousham gardener who had laid out William Kent’s garden for General Dormer in 1737; it was also my advice to the Historic Buildings Council, over two hundred years after Clary’s letter, when acting as Secretary of The Garden History Society. We had approached them to consider [...]
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September 7th, 2011
Pat Bras
We often see references to the splendid 17th-century nurseries of London & Wise at Brompton Park, London. They were used by royalty and many other important landowners who were ‘improving’ their estates. They supplied trees, shrubs, fruit trees and especially the newly introduced plants, mainly from North America.
The formal designs of George London & [...]
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September 6th, 2011
John West
Caldwell Tower in East Renfrewshire was recently featured in a Channel 4 television series about the restoration of a number of small historic buildings. The particular programme repeated the owner’s belief that his tower was built in the 15th century and was the last standing portion of a large mediaeval castle which stood by [...]
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September 6th, 2011
Alix Wilkinson was an enthusiastic garden historian, intrepid traveller and cheerful, smiling friend and companion. To those who have travelled on garden history tours in Europe and the Near East she was a familiar figure. One of my first memories of Alix dates from a visit we made together to the Egyptian collection in the [...]
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September 6th, 2011
report by Dominic Cole and Charles Boot
Continuing the tradition of holding these events regionally, to reach as many members as possible, we were at the University of Keele in Staffordshire, described by our guest speaker Dr Nigel Tringham (of the History department at Keele) as the ‘lost county’. Some 80 members attended. Our visits to [...]
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September 6th, 2011
Conference at Deer Park Hall, Pershore, Worcestershire on Tuesday 21 June 2011
report by Steffie Shields
The Reservoirs Act 1975, ensuring the safety of UK reservoirs, is being updated by the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, England and Wales. Haycock Associates liaised with English Heritage and other key organisations to host a conference for interested groups [...]
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September 6th, 2011
Symposium at Sypesteyn Castle, the Netherlands on 10 September 2010
report by D.H. van Wegen
Theory of conservation and restoration is usually focused on Art with a capital A. Those involved with ‘Green Heritage’ can borrow from this, but usually they rely on standard practice, and common sense. In recent years conservation theory has been tailored to [...]
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June 1st, 2011
Christopher Dingwall writes:
It was back in August 2010 that I found myself standing with historian Louise Yeoman and several other interested parties in a ploughed field at Tullibardine, a little to the north of Auchterarder, in West Perthshire (above). My visit had been prompted by a telephone call asking whether there might be some truth [...]
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June 1st, 2011
Paul Baker writes:
July 2011 sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of James Bateman (1811–97), Fellow of the Linnean and Royal Societies, Vice-President of the Royal Horticultural Society and the creator of the extraordinary world image garden at Biddulph Grange (right) in Staffordshire. Bateman is celebrated as a botanist who orchestrated the collection of tropical [...]
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June 1st, 2011
Annabel Downs writes:
It is the roof line of one of the main buildings that first catches your attention as you get off the train, and apart from the signs on the building, these northern lights structures in the roof, together with the cool north westerly location are tell tales of what the building was designed [...]
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