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Arthur retired as chairman of United Dairies in the early 1920s and set about creating a new garden for his new home, redesigned and enlarging the gardens, and they opened to the public in 1927, one of the first to be opened as part of the National Garden Scheme. [2] [3] The house was requisitioned by the army in the Second World War.
The gardens are also open for the National Garden Scheme, and raised over £1,000 in May 2012. [ 10 ] In 2015, Grovelands Business Park was established to the west of the village from the ruins of old agricultural buildings.
Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded by Henrietta Barnett, who, with her husband Samuel, had started the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Toynbee Hall.In 1906, Barnett set up the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd, which purchased 243 acres of land from Eton College for the scheme and appointed Raymond Unwin as its architect.
The scheme has raised over £67 million since it began, and normally opens over 3,500 gardens a year. [1] Volunteer County Organisers are responsible for vetting gardens to make sure they are of sufficient interest. [2] When the scheme began 609 private gardens were opened and £8,191 was raised.
Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn are noted as having visited in August 1535. [2] Brockworth Court was inhabited by John Guise, the new Lord of the Manor, in 1540. [3] The Tithe Barn was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1996 and rebuilt using traditional materials and methods. The restoration work was granted an award by the CPRE.
Google Earth's historical imagery feature shows that in 2000 much of the Chancellor Park area didn't exist, including much of the current housing, the Arrowhead Monument (created by Alan Threlfall), Chancellor Park Sports Area, Brook End Gardens or the Brookend Gardens Play Area. Bishop's Mead was a Housing Design Award winner in 2002.
East Village is an area in Stratford, East London that was designed and constructed as the Olympic Village of the 2012 Summer Olympics and has been converted for use as a new residential district, complete with independent shops, bars and restaurants. The area was formerly contaminated waste land and industrial buildings to the north of ...
The Estate, comprising some 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2), is bounded by Crystal Palace to the South, Denmark Hill to the North, part of Lordship Lane to the East, and Tulse Hill to the West. It is primarily situated in the inner London borough of Southwark, with small parts in the Lambeth and Lewisham, but has large areas of open space. The Estate ...