DOCSLIB.ORG

Boston Manor Park Conservation Management Plan Final Report

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Boston Manor Park Conservation Management Plan Final Report Boston Manor Park Conservation Management Plan Final Report Consultants Peter McGowan Associates with Morag Cross in association with Jura Consultants and LDN Architects May 2011 London Borough of Hounslow English Heritage Boston Manor Park Conservation Management Plan Final Report Consultants Peter McGowan Associates Landscape Architects and Heritage Management Consultants 6 Duncan Street Edinburgh EH9 1SZ 0131 662 1313 • [email protected] with Morag Cross in association with Jura Consultants and LDN Architects May 2011 Boston Manor Park 1 Conservation Management Plan May 2011 Contents Boston Manor Park site location (circled in red) 4 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Background 5 1.2 The Park today 5 1.3 Historical outline 6 1.4 Access 6 1.5 Ownership, boundaries and report coverage 7 1.6 Approach and presentation 7 2 Understanding the Park 8 2.1 Site, landform and geology 8 2.2 Urban context, urban design analysis 9 2.3 Noise 10 2.4 Zones of distinct landscape character 11 2.5 Landscape development of Boston Manor Park: summary chronology 16 2.6 Survey of designed landscape features 36 2.6.1 General 36 2.6.2 Archaeology 36 2.6.3 Water features 36 2.6.4 Built features 38 2.6.6 Access and circulation 45 2.5.7 Park facilities 49 2.5.8 Woodland, trees and gardens 52 2.5.9 Veteran and specimen trees 57 2.5.10 Planned or notable views 58 2.6 Planning designations and nature conservation 60 2.7 Park use and Friends 60 2.8 Park management 61 2.9 Strategic context 62 3 Analysis and Statement of Significance 64 3.1 Analysis, Park in its cultural context 64 3.2 Statement of significance, levels of significance 65 3.3 Statutory designations as a basis for significance 66 3.4 Statement of Significance 67 4 Management Issues and Threats to Significance 70 5 Conservation and Management Objectives and Policies 72 5.1 Conservation Goal 72 5.2 Conservation and Management Objectives 72 5.3 Conservation and Management Policies 72 5.3.1 Conservation of whole site and its character 72 5.3.2 Woodland and trees 73 5.3.3 Circulation 73 5.3.4 Built and water features 73 5.3.5 Archaeology 73 5.3.6 General improvement and intrusive features 73 5.3.7 Visitor access and experience 74 5.3.8 Sports and play facilities 74 5.3.9 Increasing understanding 74 5.3.10 Sustainability and climate change 74 6 Conservation and Management Proposals 75 6.1 Woodland, trees and garden spaces 75 6.2 Circulation 75 6.3 Built and water features 75 6.4 Archaeology 76 2 Boston Manor Park Conservation Management Plan May 2011 6.5 General improvements and intrusive features 76 6.6 Visitor access and experience 76 6.7 Sports and play facilities 76 6.8 Increasing understanding 76 6.9 Management and maintenance 76 6.10 Cost and funding 77 6.10.1 Outline costing 77 6.10.2 Sources of funding 77 7.0 Conclusion 78 Appendix 1 79 Historical maps and plans Appendix 2 109 Full development chronology from research Appendix 3 153 Sources and references Figures – survey and management plans 161 (at back of report) Figure 1 Site boundaries Figure 1a Designated area boundaries and features Figure 2 Urban form analysis Figure 3 Landscape character zones Figure 4 Water features Figure 5 Built features and enclosures Figure 6 Access and circulation features Figure 7 Woods and planted features Figure 7a Veteran trees Figure 8 Park facilities Figure 9 Significance by area or feature Figure 10 Management zones Figure 11 Core management proposals Boston Manor Park 3 Conservation Management Plan May 2011 Boston Manor Park – view of Rose Walk or Spine path in 1960s and 2010 4 Boston Manor Park Conservation Management Plan May 2011 Gunnersbury M4 Boston Manor Park Brentford Thames Syon Kew Gardens Boston Manor Park site location (circled in red) Boston Manor Park 5 Conservation Management Plan May 2011 1 Introduction 1.1 Background Hounslow Borough Council with financial support from English Heritage has commissioned a suite of reports for Boston Manor House and Park. The reports include a Conservation Management Plan for the House, Conservation Management Plan for the Park and an Options Appraisal. These reports have been produced by a single team of consultants and each report has been informed by the other. In recognition of the varying range of interests in Boston Manor the findings have been reported in three separate volumes. For a full understanding of Boston Manor House and Park all three volumes should be read. The Options Appraisal relies on the findings and policies presented in the Conservation Management Plans. The Conservation Management Plans also consider the relationships between the House and the Park and vice versa. In preparing the Conservation Management Plans the study team has had access to previous studies and reports on Boston Manor. The most significant of these is the Richard Griffiths Architects’ Condition Survey, October 2007. This was commissioned on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline for the benefit of Hounslow Borough Council. The study team has also had access to the additional report by Richard Griffiths Architects and Alan Baxter Associates on the Boston Manor House Repair Recommendations, October 2009. These have informed the Conservation Management Plan for the House and have provided the basis for the costings included in the Options Appraisal, updated by recent inspections of the House. The Condition Survey and Repair Recommendations reports are extremely detailed and have not been reproduced within the suite of reports but are available from Hounslow Borough Council. Boston Manor Park has provided the setting for the house through its long history and has seen substantial change in this highly urbanised locality. It is now a greatly valued and well-used public park. The park also has been the subject of a management plan and other studies, and the first purpose of the present CMP is to appraise its needs from a landscape conservation and public use viewpoint to provide the context for decisions about the conservation and future use of the house. The most major change to the park was the construction of the elevated section of the M4 in the early 1960s, but there are continuing pressures on the land of the park for car parking. The issue of ‘planning gain’ for conservation of the house and park from permitting corporate car parking means that the use of the park is integral to the future of the whole complex. The options appraisal is intended to provide the basis for decisions about the long-term future of the house within the context of its public park setting. The three strands of Jura Consultants’ commission have been produced by a team under their direction with LDN Architects providing the main inputs to the house options appraisal and conservation plan and Peter McGowan Associates being principally responsible for this conservation management plan for Boston Manor Park. 1.2 The Park today Boston Manor Park is a park of great significance within the LBH owing to its historic house and the landscape in which it is set. It is the largest public open space in the Brentford area at 13.75 hectares (34 acres). In order to protect the park as an asset it has been designated as a Key Park within Hounslow’s Parks and Green Spaces Strategic Framework. In 2005 Boston Manor Park received a Green Flag Award, which has been retained in subsequent years. 6 Boston Manor Park Conservation Management Plan May 2011 A Management Plan for Boston Manor Park written by John Laing Integrated Services (JLIS) provides guidance for the management and any relevant development of the Park to the year 2013. It is used as a tool to manage the service within the park and adopts the criteria of the Green Flag Award scheme to measure the quality of the service against a nationally recognised standard. The plan will be reviewed and updated on an annual basis. John Laing Integrated Services (JLIS) were appointed in 2008 by LBH to manage the borough’s parks, open spaces, libraries, arts and heritage portfolio, following a tendering process. The maintenance of the parks and open spaces is subcontracted to Continental Landscapes Ltd (CLL). The park also benefits from a very active friends organisation – Friends of Boston Manor – who, among other activities, run the Pavilion café, organise the Brentford Festival in the park, manage tennis courts and training, raise funds for the park, and act as a voice for local users, liaising with the Council and park managers. 1.3 Historical outline BMP has been a public park since 1924 when the house and surrounding 20 acres were purchased by Brentford Urban District Council after the remaining estate was sold by the last of the Clitherow family. For most of its history the park has been privately owned estate landscape laid out as the setting for the manor house, as pleasure grounds and as a working landscape. The Manor of Boston was created by King Edward I about the year of 1280 by separation from Hanwell and granted to the priory of St. Helen in Bishopsgate in the late 12th century, which held it until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538. Boston Manor House was built in 1623 by Lady Mary Reade, a young widow who remarried not long after its completion to Sir Edward Spencer of Althorp. During the Civil War in 1642, the battle of Brentford took place nearby. In 1670 the estate of some 230 acres was sold to James Clitherow, an East India merchant for £5,136, who extended the house to the north.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Heritage Varieties Factsheet
    Jam Yesterday Jam Tomorrow is a community led project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to uncover and restore the history of market gardening in Middlesex through research, oral histories and the building of a model market garden to showcase traditional methods of growing and lost varieties. To find out more visit: www.jamyesterdayjamtomorrow.com. Heritage Varieties Factsheet 1 Historical Context Throughout the 19th century, the economy of Middlesex was dominated by the need to feed London’s booming population. Parishes along the river, and those within easy walking distance of the hungry markets of London, became centres for commercial agriculture. Over time the rapid expansion of London’s urban area forced out market gardeners from central London into the southwest suburbs, and a number of Enclosure Acts allowed common grazing land to become market gardens. Farmers became horticulturalists, and farms became market gardens and orchards. The arrival of the railway to Twickenham, Teddington and Whitton in the middle of the-century allowed market gardeners to move away from the river, deeper into Middlesex. In many areas, employment in agriculture exceeded that in trade, manufacturing, and handicrafts. Gradually, however, as London continued to grow, house- building for the new ‘commuter classes’ began, and orchards began to give way to houses. The industry peaked in the 1870s, and then moved to the Hampton area, where large glasshouses allowed growers to Keens Strawberry was produce fruit and vegetables more efficiently. Several of the Hampton a popular local variety nurseries continued to thrive through the Second World War and after, from which the until their land was finally built upon to become Nurserylands housing modern strawberry derives.
    [Show full text]
  • London Transport Records at the Public Record Office
    CONTENTS Introduction Page 4 Abbreviations used in this book Page 3 Accidents on the London Underground Page 4 Staff Records Pages 6-7 PART A - List of former ‘British Transport Historical Records’ related to London Transport, which have been transferred to the Greater London Record Office - continued from Part One (additional notes regarding this location) Page 8 PART C - List of former ‘British Transport Historical Records’ related to London Transport, which are still at the Public Record Office - continued from Part One Pages 9-12 PART D - Other records related to London Transport including Government Departments - continued from Part One Pages 13-66 PART E - List of former ‘Department of Education and Science’ records transferred from the PRO to the Victoria & Albert Museum Pages 67 APPENDIX 1 - PRO Class AN2 Pages to follow APPENDIX 2 - PRO Class MT29 Page 51- (on disc) APPENDIX 3 - Other places which have LT related records Pages 68-71 PRO document class headings: AH (Location of Offices Bureau) Page 13 AN (Railway Executive Committee/BTC/British Railways Board) - continued from Part One Pages 14-26 AN2 (Railway Executive Committee, War of 1939. Records cover period from 1939-1947) Pages to follow AT (Department of the Environment and Predecessors) Page 27 AVIA (Ministry of Aviation/Ministry of Aircraft Production) Page 27 AY (Records of various research institutes) Page 27 BL (Council on Tribunals) Page 27 BT (Board of Trade) - continued from Part One Page 28-34 CAB (Cabinet Papers) Page 35-36 CK (Commission for Racial Equality/Race
    [Show full text]
  • London Metropolitan Archives Middlesex Sessions
    LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 1 MIDDLESEX SESSIONS: COUNTY ADMINISTRATION MA Reference Description Dates COUNTY ADMINISTRATION: LUNATIC ASYLUMS Maintenance of lunatics MA/A/C/001 Alphabetical register of lunatics, giving name, 1860 - 1888 date of admission, which asylum, 'how disposed of' MA/A/C/002 Register of lunatics Gives name, date of 1871 - 1877 maintenance order, to what asylum sent, 'how disposed of' MA/A/C/003/1853 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1853 8 MA/A/C/003/1865 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1865 53 MA/A/C/003/1866 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1866 73 MA/A/C/003/1867 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1867 46 MA/A/C/003/1868 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1868 47 MA/A/C/003/1869 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1869 64 MA/A/C/003/1870 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1870 8 MA/A/C/003/1872 Applications for maintenance of lunatics: 1872 Criminal lunatics 8 MA/A/C/003/1873 Applications for maintenance of lunatics: 1873 Matilda or Louisa Lewis 1 MA/A/C/003/1874 Applications for maintenance of lunatics 1874 6 LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 2 MIDDLESEX SESSIONS: COUNTY ADMINISTRATION MA Reference Description Dates MA/A/C/003/1875/001 Applications for maintenance of lunatics (B-E) 1875 (items numbered 1875/001-024) MA/A/C/003/1875/025 Applications for maintenance of lunatics (E-M) 1875 (items numbered 1875/025-047) MA/A/C/003/1875/048 Applications for maintenance of lunatics (M-R) 1875 (items numbered 1875/048-060) MA/A/C/003/1875/061 Applications for maintenance
    [Show full text]
  • A. the River As Commercial Waterway B. the River As One of London's Playgrounds C. the River As Water Provide
    23/09/2020 Survey 1930 Putney to Staines - WHERE THAMES SMOOTH WATERS GLIDE The Thames from Putney to Staines A Survey of the River, with Suggestions for the Preservation of its Amenities, prepared for A Joint Committee of the Middlesex and Surrey County Councils by Adams, Thompson and Fry, Town Planning Consultants 121 Victoria Street, Westminter, SW1 St Dominic’s Press Ditchling, Hassocks, Sussex 1930 Syon Reach CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION: A. THE RIVER AS COMMERCIAL WATERWAY B. THE RIVER AS ONE OF LONDON’S PLAYGROUNDS C. THE RIVER AS WATER PROVIDER D. THE RIVER AND LAND DRAINAGE E. THE RIVER BANKS AND BUILDINGS F. HOW AMENITIES MAY BE DESTROYED: a. Industrial Buildings and Public Works b. Bridges c. Domestic Buildings d. Advertisements e. Various causes of disfigurement and loss of amenity f. General attitude to the river https://thames.me.uk/Survey1930.htm 1/47 23/09/2020 Survey 1930 Putney to Staines - WHERE THAMES SMOOTH WATERS GLIDE II. A SURVEY OF THE RIVER WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ITS AMENITIES A. PUTNEY BRIDGE-HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE B. HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE-BARNES BRIDGE C. BARNES BRIDGE-KEW BRIDGE D. KEW BRIDGE-RICHMOND RAILWAY BRIDGE E. RICHMOND RAILWAY BRIDGE-BUCCLEUCH HOUSE F. BUCCLEUCH HOUSE-TEDDINGTON WEIR G. TEDDINGTON WEIR-KINGSTON BRIDGE H. KINGSTON BRIDGE-HAMPTON COURT BRIDGE I. [NB there is no I. section] J. HAMPTON COURT BRIDGE-SUNBURY WEIR K. SUNBURY WEIR-SHEPPERTON LOCK AND WEIRS L. SHEPPERTON LOCK-PENTON HOOK LOCK M. PENTON HOOK-STAINES BRIDGE III. METHODS OF PRESERVING THE AMENITIES OF THE RIVER SIDE A. OPEN SPACES a.
    [Show full text]
  • Vol. 33 No.2 June 2015
    WEST MIDDLESEX FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL _____________________ Vol. 33 No.2 June 2015 WEST MIDDLESEX FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Executive Committee Chairman Vacant [email protected] Secretary Vacant [email protected] Treasurer Ms Muriel Sprott 1 Camellia Place, Whitton, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 7HZ [email protected] Membership Mrs Betty Elliott Secretary 89 Constance Road, Whitton, Twickenham Middlesex TW2 7HX [email protected] Bookstall Manager Mrs. Margaret Cunnew 25 Selkirk Road, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 6PS [email protected] Committee Member Claudette Durham Please direct all postal queries to the Treasurer Post Holders not on the Executive Committee Editor Mrs. Bridget Purr 8 Sandleford Lane, Greenham, Thatcham, Berks RG19 8XW [email protected] Programme Mrs. Kay Dudman Co-ordinator 119 Coldershaw Road, Ealing, London W13 9DU Projects Co-ordinator Brian Page 121 Shenley Avenue, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 6BU Society Archivist Yvonne Masson Examiner Paul Kershaw Webmaster Roland Bostock: [email protected] Society Web site www.west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk Subscriptions All Categories: £12 per annum Subscription year l January to 31 December If you wish to contact any of the above people, please use the postal or email address shown. In all correspondence please mark your envelope WMFHS in the upper left-hand corner; if a reply is needed, a SAE must be enclosed. Members are asked to note that receipts are only sent by request, if return postage is included. Published by West Middlesex Family History Society Registered Charity No.
    [Show full text]
  • Grand Union Canal & Boston Manor
    GRAND UNION CANAL & BOSTON MANOR Consultation Draft Conservation Area Appraisal September 2017 GRAND UNION CANAL & BOSTON MANOR Foreword I am pleased to present the draft Grand Union Canal and Boston Manor Conservation Area Appraisal. Grand Union Canal and Boston Manor are important parts of Brentford and a valuable part of the heritage of the borough. This draft appraisal builds on the original conservation statements for Hounslow’s conservation areas and has been reviewed as part of a comprehensive review of Hounslow’s conservation area statements. The purpose of the appraisal is to provide an overview of historic developments and key components that contribute to the special interest. This appraisal will also identify positive and negative contributors as well as opportunities for improvement in order to inform a comprehensive understanding of the conservation area. The regeneration of Brentford offers the opportunity to improve the high street and areas surrounding the conservation area through high quality new development and improved public spaces. In addition, we are working to secure funding for projects such as the restoration Boston Manor House and gardens, in order to raise the profile of one of the borough’s great estates. We hope this document will play a significant role in the future management of Grand Union Canal and Boston Manor Conservation Area and will be a guide for developers, residents and planners. We look forward to hearing your views on the draft appraisal and will amend this where appropriate, following consultation. Steve Curran Councillor Steve Curran Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Corporate Strategy, Planning and Regeneration 2 GRAND UNION CANAL & BOSTON MANOR Executive Summary Presented here is the draft consultation version of the Grand Union Canal and Boston Manor Conservation Area Appraisal.
    [Show full text]
  • This Exhibition About Local Benefactor and Victorian Councillor Thomas
    A most confusing private museum The Thomas Layton Project Illustration by Tracy Galer Welcome to this exhibition about local benefactor and Victorian councillor Thomas Layton (1819 - 1911) and the large collection of antiquities, archaeology and books he gave to Brentford. Before the Layton Project, books and objects from his collection have not been displayed together since the 1930s, when they were exhibited at Brentford Library. This exhibition will tell Layton’s story, explain his collection and what happened to it after his death and reveals what Brentford was like in Layton’s day. I hope you will enjoy this taste of what the Layton Collection has to offer. If you can, please visit our web site: www.thomaslayton.org.uk where you can find more information, including places in London to see some of the objects Layton collected. Thomas Layton The Layton Project and this exhibition are supported by the Thomas Layton Memorial and Museum Trust, the London Borough of Hounslow together with CIP and are funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Brentford Library, the first home of the Layton Thomas Layton and the Library collection under Fred Turner Kew Bridge Road c1892, Layton’s House is on the left behind trees Committee 1900 My thanks go to: James Wisdom, Mike Carman, Janet McNamara, Andrea Cameron and Miss Betts, Trustees of the Layton Trust; Jon Cotton, Christie Pohl and Kate Linden at the Museum of London; James Hales, Dean Sully and the MSc Conservation Students of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL); Olivia Gooden
    [Show full text]
  • Lost Heritage Varieties Factsheet
    Jam Yesterday Jam Tomorrow is a community led project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to uncover and restore the history of market gardening in Middlesex through research, oral histories and the building of a model market garden to showcase traditional methods of growing and lost varieties. To find out more visit: www.jamyesterdayjamtomorrow.com. Lost Heritage Varieties Factsheet 1 Historical Context Throughout the 19th century, the economy of Middlesex was dominated by the need to feed London’s booming population. Parishes along the river, and those within easy walking distance of the hungry markets of London, became centres for commercial agriculture. Over time the rapid expansion of London’s urban area forced out market gardeners from central London into the southwest suburbs, and a number of Enclosure Acts allowed common grazing land to become market gardens. Farmers became horticulturalists, and farms became market gardens and orchards. The arrival of the railway to Twickenham, Teddington and Whitton in the middle of the-century allowed market gardeners to move away from the river, deeper into Middlesex. In many areas, employment in agriculture exceeded that in trade, manufacturing, and handicrafts. Gradually, however, as London continued to grow, house- building for the new ‘commuter classes’ began, and orchards began to give way to houses. The industry peaked in the 1870s, and then moved to the Hampton area, where large glasshouses allowed growers to Keens Strawberry was produce fruit and vegetables more efficiently. Several of the Hampton a popular local variety nurseries continued to thrive through the Second World War and after, from which the until their land was finally built upon to become Nurserylands housing modern strawberry derives.
    [Show full text]
  • C.Arden (Bookseller) – Website Our Website Is Now 2 Years Old and Regularly Updated with New Stock
    C. Arden, Bookseller ‘Radnor House’, Church Street, Hay-on-Wye, (via) Hereford, HR3 5DQ, U.K. Tel: +44 (0) 1497-820471 Fax: +44 (0) 1497-820498 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ardenbooks.co.uk Catalogue No.91 Botany 1 – 295 Entomology 296 - 410 Fine, Illustrated & Antiquarian 411 – 444 Gardening 445 - 570 Natural History 571 - 723 Ornithology 724 - 859 Zoology 860 - 939 New Naturalists The most recent title No.116 ‘Plant Pests’ was published in early January. We have a number of copies left and are offering them for sale at £45.00 (RRP £50.00). We expect to take delivery of NN.117 ‘Plant Galls’ by Margaret Redfern at the end of March. We will charge catalogue customers £45.00 plus post (RRP £50.00) and if you would like a copy, do let us know. We have provided some detail on this titles content at the end of this catalogue. Entomology Our entomology section is quite large with a considerable selection of works related to Hemiptera. C.Arden (bookseller) – website Our website is now 2 years old and regularly updated with new stock. We have also added several thousand book images which we hope makes purchasing easier. We are always interested in purchasing large or small collections in our specialist subject area and are quite happy to travel to view. Payment of invoices in STERLING please. We accept Visa, Mastercard & Eurocard, but only when placing your order. Cards may not be used to pay an invoice at a later date. We do not accept American Express credit cards.
    [Show full text]
  • Mrs Hugh Ronalds' Recipe Book
    MRS HUGH RONALDS’ RECIPE BOOK (1795–1820) Beverley F. Ronalds Perth, Australia The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto holds a manuscript “receipt” or recipe book donated by the Harris Family. It has been digitised1 and was also featured in a 2018 exhibition entitled “Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada”. With the initial page of the book bearing the name of Lucy Harris (1845–1901) of Eldon House, London, Canada, it has been assumed until now to be her work.2 It is in fact almost a century older than this, having been compiled by Lucy’s great-grandmother Elizabeth Ronalds née Clarke (1758–1823) in England. Who Elizabeth Ronalds was and how she is identified as the author are described, and the period over which the book was written is assessed. Analysing its content reveals detail of Elizabeth’s married life in the town of Brentford. Elizabeth’s background and family The Clarkes were a close-knit family, yet geographically dispersed, with bases in Coventry, London, Brentford, and beyond. Elizabeth Clarke’s parents Francis Clarke Sr and Mary Taylor were married in Yorkshire on 8 October 1752 and they recorded that she was born at two a.m. on Tuesday 28 February 1758.3 Francis Sr conducted his silk business at 8 Wood Street in London;4 there he was able to monitor changing fashions, purchase raw silk and sell products in Britain’s largest market.5 The silk ribbons he sold were made in Coventry, 150 km northwest of the capital.
    [Show full text]
  • Hounslow Nursery Gardening Dynasties
    Jam Yesterday Jam Tomorrow is a community led project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to uncover and restore the history of market gardening in Middlesex through research, oral histories and the building of a model market garden to showcase traditional methods of growing and lost varieties. To find out more visit: www.jamyesterdayjamtomorrow.com. Factsheet: Hounslow Nursery Gardening Dynasties 1 Historical Context From the late 17th century the garden grounds of Hounslow, Isleworth, Brentford, Chiswick and Feltham (now the London Borough of Hounslow) were centres of profitable horticultural employment. The nursery gardens produced trees, shrubs and flowering plants as well as plants for the kitchen garden, while from the orchards and market gardens came fruit and vegetables for the population of London and beyond1. As far back as the Elizabethan era, Heston was noted for the excellence of its farmland and the quality of its wheat and Chiswick for its barley. The focus in Hounslow seems, however, to have been on grazing sheep and cattle. Brentford's weekly market, established by the beginning of the 14th century, was the major trading place for a wide area, specialising in grain. In the 18th century Chiswick became well known for asparagus while Brentford, Isleworth and Twickenham were better known for fruit, particularly raspberries and strawberries. After 1800 many nurseries became market gardens producing food for London’s growing population. Quite often the same families moved from nursery gardening to market gardening, maintaining the high reputation of the area. They were linked through shared expertise, business transactions, and involvement in local affairs.
    [Show full text]
  • British Pomology;
    .IS* X ?&., .i^.f^>' .« .-A-. ?*' ^^^ - .^" # >«ib f. ,v' k ^. rW BRITISH POMOLOGY; OK, THE HISTORY, DESCRIPTION, CLASSIFICATION, AND SYNONYMES, OF THE FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES OP GREAT BRITAIN; ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENQRAVINQS, BY ROBERT fl:OGG. ' Fruit of all kinds, in coat »• Rough or smooth rind, or bearded husk or shell."—Milton. THE APPLE. ' Arboris est suavisJB'i'uoUis, sunt dulcia Poma, Diilcior est inquara Ne^tare, et Ambrosia." LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW; EDINBURGH: JAMES HOGG; GLASGOW: DAVID BRYCE. MDCCCLI. OBERRt NEW yOI=5lB QH4-5 .H3nt PRINTED BY WILLIAM FORD, RussELJ. Court, Brydges Street, Covent Gardek, LONDON. TO MR. ROBERT THOMPSON, FOR THE IMPORTANT SERVICES HE HAS RENDERED TO THE STUDY OF POMOLOGY AND FOR HIS UNWEARIED LABORS IN DETERMINING AND ARRANGING POMOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND, _ THE AUTHOE. PREFACE. It is much to be regretted, that of late years, so little attention has been given in this country, to the study of pomology, and that so few efforts have been made to encourge a taste for this most important, most instructive, and intellectual branch of horticultural science. Towards the end of the last, and beginning of the present century, when the late Mr. Knight was in the full vigor of his scientific pursuits, this was the subject which engaged so much of his power- ful intellect, and from which he succeeded in producing such great and beneficial results. With Mr. Knight as president, and Mr. Sabine as secretary, the Horticultural Society of London did much for the advancement of this subject, and in extending a knowledge not only of the fruits of this country, but of the most valuable varieties of the continent of Europe, and America.
    [Show full text]