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Beaudesert: “a desert beautified”
Beaudesert is/was an enormous estate in Staffordshire’, its name probably coming from the French for the surrounding landscape – “beautiful wilderness”. It has a reasonably well recorded architectural and contents history up to the demolition of the great Elizabethan mansion … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquarian, historic revivalism, hothouse, Humphry Repton, james wyatt, kitchen garden, Plas Newydd, Red Book, ruins, William Emes
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Visiting a Duke 18thc style…
At the end of last year I wrote about the travel journals of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington. His diaries are, unlike most 18thc published writing, quite informal in style , probably because he had no intention of putting his … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquarian, grimsthorpe, Humphry Repton, John Byng, John Vanbrugh, monastery, ruins, rustic, Topiary, tourism, travel, William Stukeley
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Mrs Delany’s Petticoat
I write about all sorts of strange things on this blog but can’t think of much more obscure than this week’s starting point which is a Georgian firescreen which turns out not to be just a firescreen but part of … Continue reading
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Tagged auricula, botanical art, Chinoiserie, embroidery, fashion, flowers, geranium, honeysuckle, Mrs Delany, parterre, Roses, ruins, William Kent
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Park Hill from Tate to Today
Last week’s post told the first part of the story of Park Hill, a Victorian estate in Streatham in what is now south London. In 1873 the house was put up for sale after the death of its builder William … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, conservatory, fernery, garden bridge, garden buildings, lawns, planning, Pulhamite, Robert Marnock, Rockery, ruins, streatham, terraces, William Goldring
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