Major accessions to repositories in 2012 relating to Gardening

Local

Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Service

• Barking and Dagenham Allotment Holders Society Limited: records incl minutes, accounts and plans 1979-1993 (ACQ2012/025)

Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre

• Hurst Horticultural Society, Bexley: records including photographs and minutes 1944-1999 (CSHHS)

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow

• Walter Lindsay Smith, gardener at Abbot Hall: note book and army papers 1916-46 (BDX 661)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

• Bellgarth Nurseries: photographs c 1880-1960 (DB 168)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal

• Crosscrake and District Flower Show: records 1950-99 (WDSO 303)

East Sussex Record Office

• Holroyd family, Earls of Sheffield, Sheffield Park: diary of WT Moore, head gardener 1896 (ACC 11431)
• Broad Oak Horticultural Society: records c1980-2011 (ACC 11256)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• Hampshire Gardens Trust: historical research files for Hampshire gardens and estates c1990-2010 (47A12)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• Welwyn Garden City Horticultural Society: notebooks and photographs 1961-1971 (Acc 5351)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

• Waltham Jubilee Flower Club: minutes 1977-2000 (Acc 23 -2012)

Salford City Archive

• Salford Allotment Society: records 1917-18 (Acc 832)

Somerset Heritage Centre

• Kelway & Son Ltd, nurserymen, Langport: additional corresp, accounts and papers 1930-1988 (A\DHH)
• Barrington Court: planting plans of proposed gardens drawn by Forbes and Tate and based on Gertrude Jekyll planting plans 1917-1920 (DD\NA)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office

• Maer and District Garden Guild: records incl minutes, annual reports and photographs 1947-2002 (E205)

Surrey History Centre

• National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies, Surrey branch: records incl signed minutes 1961-2011 (9063)

Tyne and Wear Archives

• St Gabriel's Allotments, Heaton: minutes, membership registers and accounts 1941-1997 (SX157)

Warwickshire County Record Office

• Binswood Allotment Society: minutes, accounts and corresp 1920-1997 (CR4493)

West Sussex Record Office

• Peter Bailey Ltd, market nursery growers, Climping: records incl accounts, diaries, wage register and photographs 1960-91 (Peter Bailey)
• Aldingbourne District Horticultural Society: minutes and slides 1988-2008 (Acc 16866)
• Findon Valley Garden Society: records 1985-2003 (Acc 16477)

Wirral Archives Service

• Eastham Council School Allotments Association: minutes, corresp and records 1940-2010 (1999)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

• Aberdeen University Ladies Club: garden group papers c1950-1999

Museum of English Rural Life

• Women's Farm and Garden Association: photographic lantern slides c 1890-1930 (P DX 1964)