Tag Archives: William Emes

Josiah Wedgwood and a plateful of Green Frogs

Posted on 15/03/2025 by The Garden History Blog

It’s now just over ten years since the Wedgwood Collection, one of the most important industrial archives in the world and a unique record of over 250 years of British art, was saved by the Art Fund from sale and dispersal. … Continue reading →

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Holkham

Posted on 03/07/2021 by The Garden History Blog

Where do I start in trying to describe Holkham? And it’s not just me. Historic England’s Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest says : ” Because of the complexity of this site, the standard Register entry format would … Continue reading →

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Beaudesert: “a desert beautified”

Posted on 27/07/2019 by The Garden History Blog

Beaudesert is/was an enormous estate in Staffordshire’, its name probably coming from the French for the surrounding landscape – “beautiful wilderness”. It has a reasonably well recorded architectural and contents history up to the demolition of the great Elizabethan mansion … Continue reading →