Tag Archives: Queen Victoria

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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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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The First Albert Memorial

Posted on 02/04/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Everyone knows about the grand memorial to Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens opposite the Royal Albert Hall, and on the edge of what was once called Albertopolis, but recently I went to see a less pretentious local memorial which was … Continue reading →

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Alice through the Garden Door

Posted on 27/03/2021 by The Gardens Trust

I was told off last week for writing a “teaser” post by mentioning Alice but not including much about her and nothing about Wonderland but today’s I hope will make up for that. There are two gardens  at Christ Church … Continue reading →

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