Newsletter Archive

Since 2022, Hertfordshire Gardens Trust have not been publishing a physical newsletter. Our archive can be downloaded through the links below.

Autumn Newsletter 2020 cover page

2021 – 2022 Annual Report

  • Chair’s report – Sue Flood
  • Treasurer’s Report – Sally Pool
  • Research Report – Anne Rowe
  • Conservation and Planning Report – Kate Harwood
  • Schools Report – Bella Stuart-Smith
  • Membership update – Sue Davidson
Autumn Newsletter 2020 cover page

Spring 2021

  • Thirty Years of the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust – Sue Flood
  • Thirty Years of Research and Discoveries – Anne Rowe
  • The Research Group and Me – Tom Williamson
  • Learning about Historic Parks and Landscapes – Liz Carlin
  • Working with Schools – Bella Stuart-Smith
  • Conservation and Planning in HGT – Kate Harwood
  • HGT and The Gardens Trust – Alison Moller
Autumn Newsletter 2020 cover page

2020 – 2021 Annual Report

  • Chair’s report – Sue Flood
  • Treasurer’s Report – Sally Pool
  • Research Report – Anne Rowe
  • Conservation and Planning Report – Kate Harwood
  • Schools Report – Bella Stuart-Smith
  • Membership update – John Craggs
Autumn Newsletter 2020 cover page

Autumn 2020

  • Lord Burghley at Theobalds – Anne Rowe
  • William Wiltshire’s tree nursery and plantations – Bridget Howlett
  • A community utopia – Alison Moller
  • The Linns of the Clyde and the Mimram – Kate Harwood
  • Coton Manor – a grand day out – Tosh Moller

Spring 2020

  • Roger Gedye – Kate Harwood
  • Pulham 200 – Kate Banister and Tina Rowland
  • Cheshunt Grange – Kate Banister and Alison Robinson
  • Annual Research Report – Anne Rowe
  • Annual Conservation and Planning Report – Kate Harwood
  • Annual Schools Report – Bella Stuart-Smith

Autumn 2019

  • Researching Hunsdonbury – Elizabeth Waugh
  • Identifying Trees – Liz Carlin
  • An introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement – Roger Gedye
  • Japanese Gardens, London – Diana Walsh
  • Bygrave: a long and interesting journey – Alison Moller

Spring 2019

  • Tudor and early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire – Anne Rowe
  • Property is Theft? Hertfordshire’s Local Plans – Kate Harwood
  • Northaw House – Liz Carlin
  • Discovering the Real Repton – Toby Parker
  • Humphry Repton Bicentenary Publications – Deborah Spring

Autumn 2018

  • The gardens at High Cannons – John Sloan
  • Benington Lordship – Roger Gedye
  • A vision for the gardens at St Alban’s Cathedral – Bella Stuart-Smith
  • HGT Research Group: Orchards Past and Present – Deborah Spring
  • Ashwell Cottage Garden – Liz Moynihan

Spring 2018

  • Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire – Tom Williamson
  • Humphry Repton in the Archives – Sue Flood
  • Humphry Repton at Lamer and Shardeloes – Liz Carlin
  • Finding the Red Book for Woodhill – Monica Jordan
  • Humphry Repon and the Towgood Family – Sally Pearson
  • Humphry Repron at Ashridge – Mick Thompson
  • Five guineas a Day – Deborah Spring

Autumn 2017

  • Not in my back yard? – Alison Moller
  • The Friends of Panshanger Park – Liz Carlin
  • Interpreting the account book of Capability Brown – Jenny Milledge
  • Brickendonbury: The Avenue Puzzle – Sue Friend
  • Recovering a Victorian Fernery – John Roper

Spring 2017

  • Utopia to Dystopia: Planning in the 21st Century – Kate Harwood
  • Presdales – My first research project – Tina Rowland
  • In a Monastery Garden – Sally Pearson
  • Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire – Anne Rowe

Autumn 2016

  • Thundridge Hill House – Roger Gedye with Christopher Melluish
  • Woodhall Park – An English Estate – Ralph Abel Smith
  • Two Formidable Women – Liz Moynihan
  • Parks in Crisis – Kate Harwood
  • High Leigh – Tina Rowlands
  • Panshanger Park needs YOU – Anne Rowe

Spring 2016 – Capability Brown Festival Edition

  • The Capability Brown Festival 2016 – Gilly Drummond
  • The Celebrity of Lancelot ‘Capability Brown’ – Roger Gedye
  • A three-fold celebration of Hertfordshire Landscape Parks – Torsten Moller
  • Brownian landscapes on the map of Hertfordshire by Dury and Andrews – Anne Rowe
  • ‘Youngsbury’ – The most complete Brown Landscape Park in Hertfordshire – Tony Savile
  • ‘Stone Age to Suburbia’ (The rise and fall of the Capability Brown landscape at Digswell) – Kate Harwood
  • Wrotham Park – Brown, but not Brown? – Alan Simpson
  • Beechwood: a 21stC perspective on an 18thC landscape park – Lottie Clarke

Autumn 2015

  • Jellicoe Water Gardens Restoration – Deborah Kinloch
  • Researching Hunsdon and preparing a Local List entry – Deborah Spring
  • Woodhall – Ralph Abel Smith
  • Return to Northaw Place – Anne Shellim

Spring 2015

  • ‘Pie Corner’ – Roger Gedye with Bella Stuart-Smith
  • My Work with the HGT – Tom Williamson
  • Glimpses of Edwardian Country Life – Lottie Clarke

 

Autumn 2014

  • Numbers 50 and 52 – Roger Gedye with Ellie Johnson
  • Humphry Repton at Haileybury? – Toby Parker
  • Lady Alice Cooper and her Japanese Gardens – Kate Harwood
  • Rousham – A Personal Perspective – Tom Stuart-Smith

 

 

Spring 2014

  • What is significant about ‘Significance’? – Verena McCaig
  • The most spectacular rond-point in England? The restoration of part of Charles Bridgeman’s design for Tring Park, Hertfordshire – Anne Rowe

 

 

Autumn 2013

  • Bush Hall, Hatfield – John Sloan

Spring 2013

    • Gobions Wood – Jenny Milledge
    • Money, Mills, Mares and Movies

(Hanstead House gardens, Bricket Wood) – Kate Harwood

  • Tithe Maps on CD – Bella Stuart-Smith
  • Maydencroft – Bridget Howlett
  • Prizegiving Day – Penelope Wrong (HGT Schools Gardening Judge)

Autumn 2012

  • The Crown Hotel Gardens, Broxbourne – Catherine Bannister
  • Update on the Serpent – Deborah Kinloch

Spring 2012

  • Mystery at Woodhill – Monica Jordan
  • Long live Mrs Wheelbarrow! – Maggie MacRae

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