Reference
PY/E10/35
Title
Old Warden: Repair and restoration of the Swiss Garden, Shuttleworth Estate
Date free text
1972-1977
Production date
From: 1972 To: 1977
Scope and Content
Old Warden: Repair and restoration of the Swiss Garden, Shuttleworth Estate
Includes:
- amendment to lease [1981];
- contract for repair of The Grotto ironworks and award of tender for ornamental wrought ironwork [1981];
- itemised schedule of work and costs [1979] and list of contractors on site [n.d.];
- correspondence with the Department of the Environment re: grant increases, and statement of costs and grant [1979-1981];
- notes of meetings of Officers’ Working Group and the Management Advisory Committee [1979-1981] and site meetings re: the Gardeners’ Cottage, The Kiosk and The Chapel [1979];
- discussion re: lawn maintenance and grass seed mixtures [1979];
- draft policy statement, Leisure Committee reports and minutes [1979-1981];
- cost of fire insurance [1981];
- arrangements for garden party [1980] and action to be taken prior to opening to public [1981];
- plan and details of proposed electricity supply routes to Gardeners’ Cottage [1979] and correspondence and plans of new toilet block and proposed extension of sewers and pump [1980-1981];
- correspondence re: Henry Clutton, C19th architect; Edward and Henry Ernest Milner [Derbyshire] 1845-1906, believed to be the original landscape gardeners; and Joseph F. Meston of Haverstock Hill [London], a landscape gardener employed by the Peel family at Galley Hill, Sandy c.1870 [1979];
- brief history of Felix Austin, a Roman or coad stone manufacturer c. 1836, believed to have supplied ornaments in the form of two eagles, lions, a dolphin bowl, a dog and a boy for the Garden; and J.V. Papworth, who designed for F. Austin; also Pulham & Sons, stoneworkers of Bishops Stortford [Hertfordshire], early C19th [1979-1981];
- correspondence re: donation by Haddonstone of East Haddon [Northampton] of lion statues, and their disposition in the Garden [1980];
- correspondence from Mrs E.M.Christidis re: origin of a Royal Doulton peacock statue dated c.1873 [1980];
- correspondence re: the relationship between the Ongley, Monoux and Burgoyne families.
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Level of description
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