Major accessions to repositories in 2003 relating to Gardening

Local

Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre

• Mayesbrook Park, Barking: report, plans and sketches rel to park's development 1949

City of Westminster Archives Centre

• Montagu Square Garden Trust, Westminster: minutes and rate books 1949-98 (Acc 2335)

Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters

• Cumbria Best Kept Village Competition: reports incl minutes, corresp 1958-93 (DSO 233)

Ealing Local History Centre

• Acton Chrysanthemum, Dahlia and Floral Art Society (addnl): minutes 1978-2002 (Acc 319)

Flintshire Record Office

• Mold Garden Club: minutes, accounts and papers rel to club activities 1974-2002 (D/DM/1498)

Gloucestershire Record Office

• Cheltenham and District Orchid Society: minutes and corresp 1975-95 (D 9447)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• Hertfordshire Gardens Trust: surveys of West Hertfordshire gardens 1989-2000 (Acc 3898)

Northamptonshire Record Office

• Gayton Gardeners and Allotment Society: minutes 1918-99

Shropshire Archives

• Monkmoor Allotment and Gardeners Association: minutes, accounts and corresp 1929-90 (7021)

Somerset Archive and Record Service

• Barrington Court, Somerset: plans 1806-1987 (DD/NA Acc M/871)

South Lanarkshire Council Archives and Information Management Service

• East Kilbride Horticultural Society: minutes and corresp 1938-2001 (F43)

Surrey History Centre

• Ewell Horticultural Association: minutes, corresp, newsletters and other records 1968-2000 (7414)
• Horsell Cottage Gardeners Association: misc records 1922-48 (7497)

West Sussex Record Office

• Agriframes Ltd, nurserymen: minutes, files and photographs 20th cent (Accs. 13183, 13286)
• Cheals of Crawley, nurserymen: records c1860-1969 (Acc. 13321)
• Chichester Flower Club (addnl): records 1987-2002 (Acc. 13008)

National

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• James Comber, gardener at Nymans Gardens, Sussex: corresp and papers rel to lilies c1930-39
• John Gregory Hawkes (b 1915), botanist (addnl): papers and photographs rel to Solanum collection

University

Dundee University Archives

• WP Laird & Sinclair Ltd, seedsmen and nurserymen, Dundee: letter book, invoice book (2003/110)

Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives

• Friends of Ness Gardens, Wirral: minutes 1963-2003 (D.907)
• University of Liverpool Amateur Gardening Society: records 1970-62 (D.903)

York University: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research

• Ancient Society of York Florists: records 1768-2003