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Tag Archives: Shropshire

Wollerton Old Hall – A Quart in a Pint Pot.

Posted on July 5, 2014 by admin
The Well Garden

Sometimes a garden delights and irritates in equal measure, and none more so than Wollerton Old Hall.   When a smallish private garden with limited opening times allows the public to visit, it seems somehow churlish not to be nice. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged John and Lesley Jenkins, Shropshire, West Drayton, West Midlands

Hawkstone Park Follies – ‘The Awfulness of its Shades, the Horrors of the Precipices’.

Posted on February 28, 2014 by admin

Confronted with a Health and Safety video, told to take a torch, closed at short notice in ‘unfavourable conditions’, (and unsuitable for push-chairs, the elderly and the disabled), I was expecting something comparable to the Grand Canyon; but this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Shropshire, Sir Rowland Hill

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