Everyone knows about the grand memorial to Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens opposite the Royal Albert Hall, and on the edge of what was once called Albertopolis, but recently I went to see a less pretentious local memorial which was the first in the country to be put up to honour Albert the Good after he died in 1861.
The story of its original construction and then decline and dismantling is interesting but the story behind its recent re-construction is just as good and says a lot about local pride and the power of volunteers
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many daffodils in flower. Wordsworth would have been in heaven if he’d seen them. In fact if it wasn’t for the fact they’re growing in open woodland I’m sure the yellow would have been visible from space. But I wasn’t in the Lake District “wandering lonely as a cloud” where I saw this golden host but in Dorset.
Which English landscape garden is this? Some lesser known Capability Brown site? Or perhaps one by one of his contemporaries? Off the beaten track somewhere or just a hidden corner of a better known one?
Just a few questions as the introduction for today’s post.
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