{"id":123,"date":"2010-08-16T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:13:09","slug":"about-val-bott","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?page_id=123","title":{"rendered":"about Val Bott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A curator and local historian, my personal research focusses on the history of Chiswick, where I live, and the neighbouring parish of Brentford. My book <em>Flood! the Brentford Flood of 1841<\/em> won the first London &amp; Middlesex Archaeological Society Local History Publications Award in 2003. I have been researching nursery gardeners in the parishes along the Thames since 2006 and the fruits of that work form the basis for this web-site, for talks and for occasional articles elsewhere. I was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London early in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In real life I began a museum career at Vestry House Museum in Walthamstow, I set up and ran new local history museums in the London Boroughs of Brent and Wandsworth, tried to rescue an old-established museum service in Newham and advised the Fairground Heritage Trust in the mid 1990s. Between 1996 and 2000 I was Deputy Director of the UK government&#8217;s adviser on museums, The Museums &amp; Galleries Commission, and I have worked as a freelance heritage consultant since then.<\/p>\n<p>I helped create another new museum for Havering and co-ordinated the refurbishment and redisplay of Hogarth&#8217;s House in Chiswick. Recent projects have included interpretative planning advice to Turner&#8217;s House Trust as well as a period advising Berry Brothers &amp; Rudd on their historic collections and archives. My current project is The Mulberry Garden at Hogarth&#8217;s House; a handsome learning studio has been built alongside the House, for events, activities and classes, while the garden is being laid out as and &#8220;exhibition&#8221; using planting and features to tell its whole story since the 1670s. It was intended to open to visitors in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>To contact me with new information or queries please email valbottmuseums@gmail.com.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curator and local historian, my personal research focusses on the history of Chiswick, where I live, and the neighbouring parish of Brentford. My book Flood! the Brentford Flood of 1841 won the first London &amp; Middlesex Archaeological Society Local History Publications Award in 2003. I have been researching nursery gardeners in the parishes along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}