Tag Archives: conservation

Nun Appleton

Posted on 13/05/2017 by The Garden History Blog

Nun Appleton House is a sad place these days in every sense. The Yorkshire estate was once the home of Thomas Fairfax, the great Parliamentary general, and also for a short while to Andrew Marvell, the poet, who acted as tutor … Continue reading →

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Crompton and Fawkes

Posted on 21/01/2017 by The Garden History Blog

Wentworth Castle in Yorkshire boasts a magnificent Victorian conservatory behind the main 18thc building. It was built in 1885-6 by Crompton & Fawkes, an Essex-based company who were one of the leading manufacturers of horticultural buildings in Britain at the … Continue reading →

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The survival of Wentworth Castle

Posted on 14/01/2017 by The Garden History Blog

In 1817 the Rev. Lionel Berguer published “Trifles in Verse”, a collection of [to put it politely] turgid amateur poetry. The first of these almost unreadable pieces is dedicated to his friend Frederick Vernon Wentworth. It conjures up a gentle Arcadian … Continue reading →

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Westonbirt & the Holfords

Posted on 05/11/2016 by The Garden History Blog

Everyone’s heard of Westonbirt Arboretum, one of the most extensive and beautiful collections of trees in the country. But how about the other gardens at Westonbirt? Perhaps not. Yet like the arboretum they were created by the same visionary, Robert Stayner … Continue reading →

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BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason 2…..

Posted on 08/02/2014 by The Garden History Blog

In my last post I was waxing lyrical about the way that history and ruins in particular were romanticized in the 19thc, and how gradually Ruskin’s idea of trusteeship of the ‘national heritage’ were adapted and adopted. This came at … Continue reading →