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Research • Conserve • Campaign News GT news 2 Winter 2016 Research • Conserve • Campaign news Bursting out all over You will, we hope, notice the sudden flood of activity bursting out from The Gardens Trust. contents Firstly, our website at www.thegardenstrust.org is news 2 up and running [see p.5]. We will be adding more Bursting out all over 2 content in the coming months, and we hope you That acronym… 3 will find it much easier to navigate than earlier Our new membership leaflet 3 versions, but still with lots of interesting nooks Committee and Activity reports at the AGM 4 and crannies. Much thanks for its re-appearance conservation notes 10 goes to Tim Richardson and Richard Bennett who Our Planning Advice leaflet 10 have led the project, with its final execution being Panshanger, Hertford 11 carried through by our chairman Jim Bartos. It The setting of historic landscapes 12 has been created for us by Design Culture, a firm Lydiard Park, Swindon 12 located, by coincidence, quite near to our head Government Select Committee, Public Parks 13 office in London’s Farringdon. Public Prospects revisited 14 Then there is this edition of GT news, a winter Historic Landscapes Project update 14 one, not seen in a few years. It is by way of a trailer agenda (interrupted) to our new publication schedule. The summer Unidentified Charles Bridgeman drawing 16 & 25 and winter mailing of Garden History, our journal, The Gardens Trust events 17 remains unchanged. We will be mailing out the agenda (continued) intended three editions of GT news, in spring Scotland’s CB reputation saved… 26 summer and winter over the coming years, whilst Gardens of great individuality… 27 maintaining our customary four times a year Bucks Gardens Trust Research & Recording Group 30 mailing schedule; a single micro-news will appear Wimpole Hall: new research and analysis… 31 with our September mailing. Major accessions to Repositories in 2014 & 2015 32 Expect to find our Annual Report and AGM other news, courses and events 34 Voting Papers in our June mailing, so that you membership application 39 have them well in advance of our September principal officers 39 Annual Conference. GT events diary 40 As you may have gathered, we will no longer be publishing a separate CGT Year Book, as we aim to integrate the many excellent articles generated by our colleagues in the County and Country Gardens Trusts into this publication, throughout the year. contact us Membership enquiries and applications to: The Gardens Trust, 47 Water Street, Arbons House, www.thegardenstrust.org Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 9RN The Gardens Trust head office phone: 01787 249 286 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ email: [email protected] phone: 020 7608 2409 email: [email protected] The Trust gratefully acknowledges the support of Alan Baxter. Company number: 03163187 Registered Charity number: 1053446 Our cover shows: a part of the rill garden at GT news 2 Winter 2016 Hounslow Civic Centre by Preben Jakobsen, 1978. old numbering: news 98 Winter 2016 By courtesy of Landscape Institute Library, MERL news We are particularly keen that CGTs continue to In the end we shall have to revert to ‘TGT’ I make useful contributions to GT news; the clue suppose if most people are unable to use ‘GT’. I is in the title. Each CGT receives a number of refer you to Horace, Ars Poetica: ‘Usage is the sole paper copies of GT news, as well as the pdf for arbiter and norm of speech.’ Which applies to distribution to all their members. writing as well. GT news is intended as a platform for all our But in the meantime we should try with ‘GT’. The members to promote their research, as well as any reason for this is the fact it is basically illiterate/ events they might be involved with, or think other poor usage to use ‘The’ in an acronym. It goes members may be interested in. against our instincts as a literate/academic society. You will notice that Our Events have moved I hope this clarifies matters, at least for the to the centre section of the publication, marked short term. If in a year or two we find that most with a green edge to the page, at the request people are still habitually using ‘TGT’, then we of the Events committee. We hope this makes may have to rethink. But let us see if our Stalinist our events stand out, and easier to find, but we re-education policy works. I am myself about to will continue to feature other events of interest be purged and replaced by Comrade Marsh and too: CGT events follow immediately after with will therefore be erased from the history of the other events of interest following them. We don’t Garden History Society/Gardens Trust.’ propose to feature all CGT events, that would take So there you have it, from Tim’s keyboard. On several publications, but a listing of events that a practical point, living in (and until my own the CGTs might want a broader audience for is retirement as ‘dear leader’ of) Buckinghamshire, I quite feasible. have always tried to live by ‘Bucks Gardens Trust’ Although this has all taken a bit longer to do (Bucks GT), to distinguish us from neighbouring than we might have hoped we feel the wait has Beds and Berks GTs; using BGT would only cause been worthwhile. Please continue to let us have more upset. CB your feedback. Charles Boot Our new membership leaflet GT news editor Enclosed in this mailing is the Gardens Trust’s new membership leaflet. Increasing membership is That acronym… vital to the success of the new organisation, so Our new name still seems to be causing some we would be grateful if you would give this leaflet confusion. Tim Richardson, late of this parish, had to anyone who you believe may be interested in something to say on the matter in a recent email joining us. correspondence: The illustration on the front shows The ‘I have made the point about style, ie using ‘GT’ Bowling Green and the Octagon Pond, and not ‘TGT’, several times in board meetings Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, by but it appears to be being ignored by many if not Balthasar Nebot (c.1700 to c.1770), and most; though no one seems to have a strong view is used by kind permission of Bucks against. I think it is habit. I was advised by the County Museum. HS2 is proposed to chairman that a style guide at this point would run across this view, emerging from not necessarily be helpful; he himself is neutral on a tunnel on the right of the picture, the matter. continuing on a viaduct above the ‘The main point is that we should be abbreviated grazing sheep and just behind the as ‘the GT’, [note lower-case ‘the’] i.e. the acronym row of poplars at the bottom of the rectangular ‘TGT’ should not be used. It would be good if we meadow with the black horses and sheep, until could endeavour to use this formula [in speech as finally crossing the trimmed lime(?) avenue, just well] and hope it starts to stick. It is currently used in below the brow of the hill where more sheep are this way in the news and should certainly be used grazing. It has been suggested we produce a cut in all publications and written communications out photomontage to be applied as needed… by GT staff. This is something we on the EP&C Further copies of the membership leaflet are Committee have informed the Board about in the available from the Gardens Trust’s head office, hope it would be passed on to colleagues. details opposite. GT news 2 Winter 2016 3 news: AGM reports Committee and Activity Reports at The Gardens Trust Annual General Meeting Friday, 2 September 2016 at Robinson College, Cambridge Honorary Secretary’s report The Gardens Trust’s second AGM was held at Robinson College, Cambridge on 2 September 2016. The Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2015 were laid before the members, and Averillo and Associates were appointed as Independent Examiners. Charles Boot Jeremy Garnett, Kate Harwood, Tim Richardson and Ian Varndell stood down as Directors and were Richard Wheeler, NT Gardens Curator, at Cliveden thanked for their considerable contribution over the first year of the new charity. Christine Addison, plus a fascinating visit to Buckinghamshire to view David Marsh, Maureen Nolan and Peter Waine areas of Cliveden’s gardens revealing new insights were elected to the Board to fill the vacancies. Alan through research and to its neighbouring estate Baxter and Susan Campbell were re-elected as Vice Dropmore, currently undergoing restoration of Presidents for a further term of five years. its famous early C19 gardens and pinetum. All Thanks were recorded to Cambridgeshire these were arranged and led by volunteers and Gardens Trust for its help with the arrangements our great thanks must go to Sally Jeffery, Robert for the AGM. The full Minutes of the Meeting, Peel, Kristina Taylor, Richard Wheeler and Claire de including reports from the Chairman, Honorary Carle for their contributions of time, expertise and Treasurer and Committees, together with significant income for the Trust. All arrangements President’s closing remarks, will form part of the for the GT’s 2016 Conference and AGM by papers for the 2017 AGM. Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust pre-empted the Published below are those reports given on decision to merge so the GT thanks them for a activities during the year from Directors and the most enjoyable and well-organised event.
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