Tag Archives: architecture

Bramham

Posted on 07/01/2023 by The Gardens Trust

I’ve always known that late 17th/ early 18thc gardens and landscapes have a special quality about them,  but a visit I made last month proved it beyond doubt.  So to get the New Year off to a flying start let … Continue reading →

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Victorian Jubilations

Posted on 04/06/2022 by The Gardens Trust

The Victorian  age saw public parks springing up all round the country. Rapid urbanization and industrialization led to poor housing, grinding poverty and fears of social unrest.   Parks were seen, by reformers, as one way of diffusing potential problems … Continue reading →

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Bevis Bawa @ Brief

Posted on 07/05/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Let’s start  with some not very good [actually pretty awful] poetry because  it gives a flavour of today’s subject: In the land where the jaggery grows And the skies are raucous with crows Years ago on a pastoral hill Which … Continue reading →

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Harlaxton: “Beyond your imagination”

Posted on 30/04/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Unfortunately I haven’t had a single answer to the question -“Why did he do it?” – that I posed at the end of last week’s post about Harlaxton the “Jacobethan” marvel dreamed up and then lovingly built by Gregory Gregory. … Continue reading →

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Harlaxton: Gregory’s Dream

Posted on 23/04/2022 by The Gardens Trust

On the way to a family wedding last weekend I stopped off at Harlaxton near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Like John Claudius Loudon before me   I “had heard much of this place from various architects and amateurs for several years.” … Continue reading →

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