Brown on the Box with Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh celebrates the 300th anniversary of his horticultural hero by helping create one of Brown’s lost masterpieces at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire… A major new documentary series about Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and his landscapes starts on More4 at 9pm, on Thursday 17 September. Brown, often called the ‘father of landscape architecture,’ changed the national landscape. He moved hills, […]
The Gardens Trust photograph(s)
The TGT needs you! Dr Jim Bartos, new TGT Chairman, set us a challenge as the AGM drew to a close. Go out and recruit one new member each. Of course if we succeeded in this we would double our membership by the end of the year, which would be fantastic, and mean the new […]
Historic England’s Architectural Red Box Collection
Jenifer White, Historic England, writes: Historic England’s Architectural Red Box Collection is now available online. It’s called ‘England’s Places’ and the web link is https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/archive-collections/englands-places/ . The collection includes images dating from the earliest photography in the 1850s up to the early 1990s. Subjects include churches and country houses, historic buildings and modern architecture. There […]