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Major accessions to repositories in 2013 relating to Gardening

Local

Berkshire Record Office

  • Reading Horticultural Federation: additional minutes and papers 1936-2005 (D/EX1820)

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Upton by Chester Horticultural Society: minutes, corresp, photographs and papers 1996-2012 (D 8437)

Dudley Archives and Local History Service

  • Wollaston Gardener's Guild: diaries, corresp, minutes, accounts, annual reports, and membership records 1943-2010 (9722)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Drummond Place Garden Association, Edinburgh: charter, minute books, abstract of accounts, wages books 1823-2008 (Accession 911)

Essex Record Office

  • Ongar and District Horticultural and Allotment Society: minutes and accounts 1941-2013 (Acc. A13643)

Glasgow City Archives

  • Victoria Park Allotment Association, Glasgow: minute book 1981-1996 (T-AL)

Hackney Archives Department

  • Hackney Allotment Society: minutes, corresp and newsletters c1980-2000 (2013/05)
  • Stoke Newington Gardeners Guild: minutes, corresp and newsletters c1960-1999 (2013/04)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Thomas Lobb, gardener and bailiff, Penton Lodge estate: copy notebook c1894-1921 (107A11)
  • Andover Country Market: records incl minutes, accounts and shareholder records 1984-2013 (51A13)
  • Hyde Abbey Garden, Winchester: papers rel to enhancement project, plans, promotional material, audio-visual recordings 1998-2013 (69A13W)

Highland Archives

  • Muirtown Nurseries Ltd, Inverness: stock book, architect's plans, newspapers, photographs c1951-1977 (D1372)
  • Sutherland Floral Art Club: minute books, proceedings, programmes, photographs, other records c1960-2010 (D1379)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Branston & District Allotments & Smallholdings Association Limited: records incl accounts, corresp 1919-1999 (MISC DON 1756)

Norfolk Record Office

  • North Lynn Allotments Association: minutes, rules and newspaper cuttings c1966-1971 (SO 312)

Northamptonshire Record Office

  • Plans and accompanying legend of allotments at Badby 1779-1841 (2013/112)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Nottingham Flower Club: records 1953-2013 (8502, 8523)

Somerset Heritage Centre

  • North Perrott and Haselbury Gardening Club: minutes incl lists of members 1959-1983 (A\DQY)
  • Taunton Deane Horticultural and Floricultural Society: additional records 1974-2011 (DD\X\TF)

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

  • Friends of the National Memorial Arboretum: minutes and corresp 1998-2006 (D554)

Surrey History Centre

  • Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer: letters c1927-1932 (9229)
  • Dennis Turner, local historian of Reigate: additional papers incl material rel to Southwark Diocesan Advisory Committee, Reigate Priory, Reigate Society, Merton Priory Trust, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, Reigate Health Management, Surrey Historic Buildings Trust, Horley Master Plan, the Surrey Society, Surrey Gardens Trust, Merton Borough Conservation Areas Advisory Committee, Beddington, Carshalton and Wallington Archaeological Society and Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty c1980-2010 (8984)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Valerie Margaret Steriker Finnis, horticulturist and photographer: personal and family papers and corresp 1861-2000 (Add MS 89038)

Island Archives, Guernsey

  • Windflower Hill Nurseries, Les Sages, St Pierre du Bois: financial records rel to lily growing 1900-1999
  • West Agricultural and Horticultural Show, Guernsey: articles and financial records 2010-2011

Jersey Archive

  • Diary of events and gardening of the occupier of Richmond Place, Millbrook 1853-1854 (JA/2338)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

  • William Henry Bennett, gardener: notes from a series of lectures on organography and systematic botany 1879 (PrP 13-0031)
  • Henry Robert Cocker, horticulturalist: corresp, photographs, working papers, lecture notes, autobiographical notes c1920-1990 (PrP 13-0007)
  • Charles Edward Hubbard, botanist, gardener: additional corresp 1972-1973 (PrP 13-0028)
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: papers rel to the Boris Alexander Krukoff seed collection 1972-1994 (QX 13-0022)

University

Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York

  • Fanny Eason Wilkinson (also known as Fanny Rollo Wilkinson), landscape gardener: letters to Fanny Eason Wilkinson 1878-1890 (FEW)
  • Ancient Society of York Florists: minutes and other records 1972-2012 (ASYF)
  • Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society: minutes 1907-1954 (WNETS)
  • Yorkshire Gardens Trust: records 2006-2012 (YGT)

Museum of English Rural Life

  • Women's Farm and Garden Association: records incl minutes, members records, visitors books, corresp, journals and newsletters 1915-2003 (SR DX2042)