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Williamson Park Gate House
The 1881 census shows my grandfather (John Smart) and his family living in this house. He was the Landscape Gardener of the park.
A memory of Lancaster in 1880 by
Charles Arthur Samphier Born12 5 1937 Wyatts Green
My parents bought Wyatts Stores in about 1936 and moved from West Ham, E.London., with my two sisters. Dad kept about 300 chickens in the back field. I was born on Coronation Day at Wyatts ...Read more
A memory of Doddinghurst in 1930 by
Dagenham Heathway
I am 74 and was born at 4 Northfields gardens on may 11 1947. And remember when my nan lived at 14 Sterry road just off the Heathway She had a Dalmatian called chukie I used to go to Marino’s for sweets and mum and dad took my ...Read more
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Lived Worked And Played Here
My mother was born in keepers cottage in Battle Wood, who grew up and later got married in Battle church. My grandfather, Leonard Glyde was a fireman during the second world war stationed at Battle fire station. I was ...Read more
A memory of Battle by
The 40/50s
It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham by
A Visit To My Nan Kirby
My Nan Kirby (Cozens and nee Annetts) lived in a bungalow in Woodfield. Memories of visiting her include sitting in front of a roaring fire with a large central dining table with a soft red tablecloth overhanging ...Read more
A memory of Kingsley by
East Horsley In The Sixties
I grew up in East Horsley, where I attended St Martin's C of E Primary School. We had no car and we lived nearby so we always walked to the primary school and my mother walked to the shops on Bishopsmeade Parade. When ...Read more
A memory of East Horsley by
Emigration To Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa has been my Home Base for nearly fifty years, having lost my faith of a future in UK during a troublesome strike by miners which was crippling the UK economy - no doubt the miners thought that the closure of ...Read more
A memory of Ottawa by
Fulham Memories
I was born in 1951 at Parsons Green maternity home. I have many memories of my mum's family. My nan lived in Bayonne Road, Escourt Road, Heckfield Place, Bramber Road, Cassidy Road, Fairholme Road and latterly Charleville Road, then ...Read more
A memory of Fulham by
Happy Summers
I was born and bred in Gravesend. This photo brings back many memories of summer days down the prom! We always came here with my mum. She used to leave us and our cousins in the park behind the cafe whilst they went shopping in town. ...Read more
A memory of Gravesend in 1969 by
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The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge.
The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge.
Fry's Gardens, otherwise Bridge End Gardens, were initiated by Francis Gibson, a member of a well-known Quaker family.
Chelsea still had the feel of a village, with some gardens, including the Chelsea Physic Garden and Chelsea Hospital Gardens, running down to the river.
Though the Gardens were opened in 1836, within four years of this picture being taken the Gardens' operating company was in financial trouble.
Here we see the east front of Chatsworth, where a team of gardeners with their carts full of bedding plants are working on the Italian gardens.
A view across the Promenade, ten- nis courts, and King's Gardens to Pleasureland.
The landscaping of these gardens was only completed in 1964, following the purchase of Linda Vista House and gardens by the council in 1960.
The gardens were originally laid out in the 17th century by John, second Earl of Perth and relaid in the early decades of the 19th century.
The Park Keeper's Lodge and the Aviary The gardens were laid out in the late 19th century on the site of old Purbeck stone quarries formerly owned by the Goddard family.
Several of these combine formal gardens and walks with sports facilities.
At the time of this photograph, these were known as the French Gardens; they are now known as the Rose Garden.
Gardeners tend the remarkable holly hedge of Penny Hill Park, which grows in places up to 40 feet high.
The gardens were used as the site for Orleans Park Secondary School in the 1970s, and all that now remains of the once celebrated landscape is a small garden next to the Octagon Gallery where the
The museum is set in a large park with impressive formal gardens.
The box hedges cut into the shape of chessmen in the splendid topiary garden at Haseley Court are well worth seeing.
The garden directly below it is now a garden of remembrance to the dead of Dunkirk, Normandy, Korea, Malaysia and other campaigns.
As with many Victorian seaside resorts, Saltburn boasted elaborate, well kept, (and labour intensive) public gardens, as seen here in the Italian Gardens.
Frith's 1921 photographer has climbed the hair-pin railinged fence to look along the Embankment Gardens themselves with their neat floral beds.
The extensive grounds host the Holker Garden Festival in June each year, now a major event in the gardening calendar, and are home to a herd of fallow deer.
This small garden is to be found in Bridge End Gardens.
In 1851 the 3rd Marquess of Northampton inherited the property and set about restoring it and remodelling the garden.
There is very little grazing in this street apart from the gardens fronting the houses on the left - fortunately, the garden gates are all securely closed!
The antics of our cameraman has attracted the attention of a number of boys gathered round the white marble angel that stands in front of the gates to Hillside Gardens.
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