Tag Archives: William Goldring

William Goldring and Asylums

Posted on 18/04/2020 by The Gardens Trust

At the end of last year I wrote about the work of William Goldring, a prolific landscape and garden designer who died in 1919. Apart from his private commissions  and work on  public parks he was also involved in the … Continue reading →

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Goldring and Public Parks

Posted on 14/12/2019 by The Gardens Trust

A couple of weeks ago I began  looking at the work of  William Goldring, the prolific landscape and garden designer who died one hundred years ago this year. In England, he is supposedly associated with work on more than 700 … Continue reading →

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“An easy first in his profession”

Posted on 30/11/2019 by The Gardens Trust

If you’re someone who reads this blog regularly then you can probably name many of Britain’s great garden designers, but who is/was the most prolific?  Was it Capability Brown with more than 200 major projects? Gertrude Jekyll who is now … Continue reading →

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Park Hill from Tate to Today

Posted on 16/12/2017 by The Gardens Trust

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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Owen Thomas 2: from Chatsworth to Windsor.

Posted on 26/08/2017 by The Gardens Trust

  This is the second part of the story of Owen Thomas, the son of an Anglesey labourer who rose to the peak of the horticultural profession and became Queen Victoria’s gardener at Windsor and Frogmore.  Last week’s post finished with … Continue reading →

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