Tag Archives: War

The Voice of the Nation’s Gardeners

Posted on 08/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

We’re all used to seeing gardening programmes on the TV these days, hosted by an array of “celebrity” TV gardeners like Alan Titchmarsh. However earlier this year it was a much earlier celebrity gardener who was Titchmarsh’s subject when he … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexandra Palace, BBC, Eric Fraser, Middleton, Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, War, Weston Hall | Leave a comment

Austerity, Car Parks and Concrete

Posted on 06/03/2021 by The Garden History Blog

I looked last week at the fate of London’s squares during wartime, and one might have thought that things couldn’t get much worse. Unfortunately, as in many other areas of post-war life they did. There was no quick recovery and … Continue reading →

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The Square at War

Posted on 27/02/2021 by The Garden History Blog

This post is another in my series about London squares and will look at what happened to them during the war. They were dug up for allotments and bomb shelters, used as bases for barrage balloons and most famously had … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art history, Bloomsbury, conservation, Leicester Square, London Square, railings, Russell square, War | 1 Comment

The first TV gardener…

Posted on 09/08/2014 by The Garden History Blog

THERE IS NOW AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST @ The Voice of the Nation’s Gardeners We’re all used to seeing gardening programmes on the TV these days, hosted by an array of “celebrity” TV gardeners but I bet most … Continue reading →