presenting the inventive nursery gardeners of Brentford, Chiswick and nearby Middlesex Parishes, 1650-1850
For Capability Brown’s 300th anniversary I was invited to speak at a conference at Hampton Court. My role was to reveal the Greenings who worked in the decades before Brown, often in a similar style, and whose landscapes had often been obliterated, wholly or in part, by later owners who commissioned Brown. I rather enjoyed […]
This story has grown out of another historian’s research, and confirms my view that sharing discoveries really matters because it enables others to build upon them and reveal more. Working under the wing of the London Parks & Gardens Trust, Susan Darling wrote a short and intriguing piece about Mrs Wood the Isleworth wheeler or […]
I have been invited to speak to the Hounslow & District History Society about the Greening family on the evening of Tuesday 25 February 2020 at 7.30pm. The talk will take place at the United Reformed Church Hall in Chapel Road, Hounslow, TW3 1UL. I have talked about them before, but this talk will include […]
I first came across weeder women in 2006 – they were working in the gardens of the Chiswick manor of Sutton Court in the 1690s and early 1700s. In the accounts kept by Lord Fauconberg’s steward they were paid six pence a day. The women were rarely named, as payment was usually made within the […]
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