Discovering the Real Repton

Chairs: Stephen Daniels and Tom Williamson

A Symposium to highlight the work done by the County Gardens Trusts for Repton’s bicentenary

DRAFT PROGRAMME

10.00 – 10.30

Coffee and registration

10.30 – 11.30

1. Dorset: Sarah Fitzgerald: Sans Souci, a ‘new’ Repton site discovered
2. LPGT: Chris Sumner on Repton in London
3. Lincolnshire: Steffie Shields Water in the Landscape: Rediscovered Red Book for Normanton Park

11.30 – 12.30

4. 4. Hertfordshire: Toby Parker on Repton and East India Company Patronage
   5. Yorkshire: Patrick Eyres Repton and the War Profiteers
   6. Sussex: Judy Tarling on An Evening’s Entertainment in Sussex

6b. The Glees

30 mins questions/discussion

13.00 – 14.15 Lunch

Free time to explore exhibition and displays

14.15 – 15.15

7. Kent: Hugh Vaux on Montreal: a Repton landscape interpreted
8. Buckinghamshire: Claire de Carle Parrots, Pineapples and Pȗckler
9. Wales: Glynis Shaw: Good Taste and Druids, Repton in Wales

15.15 – 16.05

10. Surrey: Sarah Dickinson on tracking down a Hardenburg and what would have been planted in it (18c plantings)
11. Hertfordshire: Kate Harwood Jack the Giant-Slayer: Restoration of a Repton landscape
12. Linden Groves: HLF Project

16.05

Summary
Tom Williamson: What we have learned about Repton this year: round-up
30 mins questions/discussion

17.00 – 19.30

Drinks reception

Further details will be available from the Gardens Trust: kateharwood@thegardenstrust.org

The Garden Museum, 5 Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB