Tag Archives: ruins

Hardwick Park – the Circuit Walk

Posted on 12/03/2016 by The Garden History Blog

This is a follow-on from last week’s post about Hardwick Park in County Durham, one of the great 18thc circuit walk gardens, now in the later stages of a very successful restoration programme. There are several descriptions of the circuit … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alexander pope, Banqueting House, Bathhouse, circuit walk, folly, Gothic, james Paine, Restoration, ruins, temple | 2 Comments

Sir John Soane and gardens…

Posted on 29/08/2014 by The Garden History Blog

My favourite museum in the entire country is Sir John Soane’s in Lincolns Inn Fields in central London. Soane is amongst England’s greatest architects and his former home and museum, built between 1792 and 1824, is simply fabulous in the truest sense of … Continue reading →

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BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason 3…

Posted on 14/02/2014 by The Garden History Blog

I suppose the question I have been trying to pose over the last couple of posts has been : are we in danger of losing our sense of the ‘romantic’ in the pursuit of the rationally ‘perfect’? The late Victorians … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged English Heritage, Hailes Abbey, James Lees-Milne, Jeremy Ashbee, John Ruskin, National Trust, Office of Works, Rest, ruins | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged conservation, Edmund Vale, English Heritage, Farnham Castle, James Lees-Milne, John Ruskin, Milner, National Trust, Newark Castle, Office of Works, Penrhyn Castle, public parks, Restoration, ruins, Simon Thurley | 1 Comment

BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason

Posted on 07/02/2014 by The Garden History Blog

I’m a hoarder and always have been. I’ve also been interested in history all my life and even as a child I collected anything and everything in the hope that one day it would come in ‘useful’. Having written last … Continue reading →