From the monthly archives: November 2020

Brown & Greening

by Val Bott on 23/11/2020 · 0 Comments

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 […]

Isleworth wheelbarrows

by Val Bott on 05/11/2020 · 0 Comments

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 […]