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Newsletter 105, Summer 2018 Newsletter Summer 2018 No. 105 www.devongardenstrust.org.uk Contents Welcome to New Members 2 From the Editor 3 Better Places Plymouth - A View to the Future 4 Restoration at Halswell Park 6 DGT Awards to Educational Projects 9 Research and Recording Training Pilot Underway 11 Events 2018 12 Obituaries: Beth Chatto and John Brookes 14 John Brookes, A Personal Reminiscence 14 Beth Chatto and her approach to planting 17 HMS Endeavour and Botany 20 DGT on BBC Radio Devon 22 Crinkle Crankle Walls 23 The GT Conference 2018 23 Trevor Wood Legacy 24 New Books 25 Devon Societies 26 DGT Contacts 27 Welcome to New Members David Clarke, Christine Allott and Michael Morgan, Patricia Eldridge, Jenny Hawkesley, Aileen and Nigel Hyman, Matt Jackson, Avis Judd, Rachel and Clive McGavin, Roland Morey, Oliver Oglesby and Lesley Pace, Vivien Rands, David Thomas, Guy Woodhouse. Condolences We heard sadly of the deaths of Mrs Sarah Evans and Mrs Pamela Ffookes; we offer our condolences to their families and friends. Articles for inclusion in the next Newsletter should be sent to the Editor. Copy deadline 30th August 2018. Front cover: Powderham ã Dianne Long Rear cover: Burrow Farm Gardens ã Dianne Long 2 From the Editor It has been a strange first half of the year weather-wise: constant wet, the highly unseasonable ‘beast from the east’, a glorious May and now a dry June. This has had a dramatic impact on our gardens, but fortunately DGT activities have not been disrupted. In March the chairs of county gardens trusts met for the first time since the formation of The Gardens Trust in 2015. The focus of discussion was on how to increase membership, encourage active volunteers, and engage more publicly. DGT has been reaching out to facilitate more joint activities with our neighbouring CGTs (Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset) on events and activities like our research and recording training. We have also invited members of other organizations like the Arts Society, Devon History Society and Royal Institute of Biology to DGT events and we will be exploring other joint activities which might benefit respective members. Two forward thinking landscape plans have been launched for consultation in recent months. The first is the revitalizing of the centre of Plymouth around Armada Way, including the Grade II registered Civic Square designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe (see page 4). The second is a masterplan for Dartington prepared by the Dan Pearson Studio which has proposals for the whole site some of which might take twenty years to achieve (there is a YouTube presentation by Dan Pearson at https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/archive/open-house/live/) Both are potentially exciting projects to revive nationally important landscapes. DGT is keeping in touch on both projects. Devon County Council has been successful in its bid for funding to upgrade the North Devon Link Road (A361) which will widen the road from South Molton to Barnstaple and improve junctions; potentially construction could begin in 2020. DGT will be looking at the detailed planning application when it is submitted to ensure there are no detrimental impacts to historic landscapes along the route, particularly Castle Hill, one of Devon’s five Grade I registered landscapes. We all seem to have been inundated with emails and post regarding the General Data Protection Regulations which came into force on 25th May 2018. DGT has reviewed its policy and procedures and published its Privacy Policy. A copy is circulated to members with this newsletter. Please rest assured that the Trust is committed to protecting members personal data. Please read the Policy and if you have any queries do contact me or our Membership Secretary, Shirley Tamblyn. Dianne Long 3 Better Places Plymouth – A View to the Future Dianne Long A bird’s eye view of the proposed City Centre Masterplan. Ó Plymouth City Council City centres are facing challenges from the retail revolution and how people want to use them. Plymouth City Council launched its plans in March for a long-term programme to transform the heart of the city in the lead up to the Mayflower 400 celebrations in 2020 and beyond. The aim is to recreate the city centre as a vibrant place to live, work and visit, accessible and attractive for all. The vision is that Armada Way will become an extraordinary boulevard that rivals any of the great European public spaces. It seeks to revive the ‘great vista’ envisaged in Abercrombie and Watson’s 1943 visionary A Plan for Plymouth that stretched from North Cross (the railway station) all the way through to the Hoe, by opening up the view with a series of different spaces including gardens. The first phase of the project is proposed to be Armada Way South from Royal Parade to the Hoe, which encompasses the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe designed Civic Square. Plans include restoration of the Grade II registered Civic Square, a new 4 avenue and axis that opens up the view, the ceremonial flagpole restored to its original location, a central walkway from the Naval Memorial, modernisation of San Sebastian Square, improved pedestrian crossings and new spaces for exercise, play, cafés and events. Plymouth City Council have appointed WSP and LDA Design to lead the team of architects, designers and engineers brought together to take forward the project, many of whom have worked on national and international projects including the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the 2017 Stirling Prize-winning Hastings Pier. The Better Places Project is just one of a number of schemes to improve the city centre and the Waterfront, with regeneration of Millbay, a new coach station, and the city’s flagship project for 2020, the new history, arts and culture centre incorporating the old Museum and Art Gallery, to be known as The Box. This will house Plymouth archives and historic collections, space for contemporary art and touring exhibitions. An exhibition and consultations have been held in Plymouth to seek the views of residents and visitors. A Plan for Plymouth was the vision to build a city out of the devastation of World War II, over seventy years on and Better Places Plymouth is looking to redevelop the city for the twenty-first century. An artist’s impression of the restored Grade II registered Civic Square. ÓPlymouth City Council 5 Restoration at Halswell Park – the Bridge in the Wood Edward Strachan, owner of Halswell Park, describes achieving one element of the restoration We started work in November 2016 on the so- called Bath Stone Bridge that is set in Mill Wood to give the appearance of a bridge but is in fact a dam. This reflects a technique in Georgian landscape architecture, notably seen in Charles Bridgeman’s 1730 dam at the end of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. The bridge was clearly a source of great pride to Sir Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1710-1785), owner and gentleman landscaper of Halswell. When he commissioned Hogarth to paint his portrait in 1753, he used the planned bridge, with masons clambering over the scaffold, as his background. According to estate records, the bridge was completed in 1755, and the two herms were most likely installed as Mill Wood’s “genius loci” the following year. It was 6 described by Arthur Young in 1771 in his Tour of the Southern Counties. In subsequent years, abandoned as a ruin in Halswell’s battered post-war landscape, it captured the imagination of John Piper, who painted The Cascade Bridge. Once our architect, Robert Battersby of Architecton, had received planning permission in October 2016, Ann Manders, Mill Wood’s project manager, oversaw the vegetation clearing, pond draining, protective scaffolding and the subsequent archaeology and surveying of the exposed bridge. Then our talented and industrious stonemason, Mike Orchard, and his team set to work, firstly by carefully dismantling damaged ashlar stone to carry off to his studio and then removing the concrete repairs done in the 1970s. Over the winter, Mike worked diligently in his studio on Architecton’s plans to repair the damaged stone, and work new pieces for the missing places, mainly on the pediment, which needed total replacing. Meanwhile, our timetable was thrown out of kilter by the discovery in the newly-exposed silt of the pond of the front balustrade, which had, according to old photographs, collapsed at least 50 years ago. Robert Battersby diligently spent many weekends over the Spring, putting it back together again. Mike fixed the repaired and new ashlar stone to the bridge. Simultaneously, Halswell’s favourite sculptor, Tom Waugh, was working to complete an interpretation of the fine shellwork, which flank the apse, one side of which had been completely lost. Tom completed his work and installed the sculpture last October. By the end of November, we were ready to fill the pond, and although we cannot fill it completely as we need to finalise details for the water management, we can gain a strong impression of how the Bridge should always have looked, a classically- inspired work of art in its landscape. All that remains now is for Tom Waugh to repair the remaining herm and sculpt a missing partner. We will do this over the summer, and once we have planted background, we will consider the restoration of the bridge complete. 7 The joint Devon GT and Somerset GT visit to Halswell Park in April attracted nearly one hundred members, with Edward Strachan leading tours in the morning and afternoon. This is one of the most meticulous and important restorations of both buildings and landscape currently underway in the South West. DGT members were unreservedly enthusiastic: ‘The house and surrounding buildings are equally as fascinating as the landscape.
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