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Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Horticulture

Local

Archives and Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

  • Falmouth Floral Arrangement Society: records incl minutes, reports, programmes and exhibition results 1978-2017 (AD2551)

Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service

  • Bedford & District Gardeners' Association Show Committee: Bedford show committee books 1978-1993 (Z1690)

Berkshire Record Office

  • Woodley Horticultural Society: minutes, financial records, newsletters and records rel to shows 1965-2012 (D/EX2715)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

  • Dalston and District Gardening Club: records incl minutes, accounts, corresp, list of plant sales, membership records, programmes and corresp 1992-2017 (DSO 451)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal

  • Survey of Hutton in the Hay and Scalthwaiterigg with Allotments of Common, giving details of landlords, tenants and estates c1827-1869 (WDX 1971)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Brackenfield Well Dressing Committee: minutes and treasurers' accounts 1990-2017 (D8159)

Dorset History Centre

  • Chesil Bank Garden Club: programmes, accounts, minutes of talk by Geoffrey Hawtin (b 1949), agrobiodiversity researcher and author 1979-2017 (D-3084)
  • Sherborne and District Gardeners' Association: minutes, programmes, show schedules and finance 1942-2012 (D-2909)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Midmar Allotments Association, Edinburgh: records incl minutes, corresp and plans 1930-2017 (1166)

Essex Record Office

  • Robert Edward Chatfield (b 1845), manufacturing chemist: garden record book for Woodlands at Sewardstone and for a garden in Fulham 1884-1918 (D/DU 1510)
  • Four Colnes Horticultural Society: records, incl accounts, membership lists and notebook with recipes 1895-2015 (A15005)

Glasgow City Archives

  • Kelvinside Allotments Association, Glasgow: minutes, finance and plot holders books, corresp and maps 1923-2008 (T-AL1/9)
  • Queens Park Allotment Association, Glasgow: minutes, finance and plot holders books, corresp 1946-1996 (T-AL 1/14)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Illman Young Landscape Design Ltd, Cheltenham: additional corresp and project files 2009-2013 (D10830)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Ampfield: records incl of planting schemes, corresp rel to acquisitions from other horticultural establishments, nurseries and international plant specialists, and rel to transfer to Hampshire County Council c1920-2009 (68A18)

Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

  • Gorsley and District Horticultural Society: papers 1960-1970 (DB94)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Blackstone & Co, farm implement maker, Stamford: glass negatives (41) 20th cent (MISC DON 2033)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Burnham Market Parish Council: minutes, accounts and records relating to the Playing Field, allotments and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee c1894-2014 (PC 241)
  • Kelling Parish Council: minutes incl parish meetings, councillors declarations, receipts and payments, and allotments rent books c1909-1999 (ACC 2018/158)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

  • National Union of Agricultural Workers, Brigg District Committee: records 1946-1983 (1478; 2018/026)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Oxfordshire Gardens Trust: Walled Kitchen Gardens project records 2018 (Acc 6685)

Sheffield City Archives

  • Woodseats Allotment Society: records incl minutes 1912-2004 (X841)

Shropshire Archives

  • Bicton Horticultural Society: minutes and accounts 1958-1989 (9490)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Taunton Flower Show: records incl minutes, annual show files and financial statements c1970-2017 (DD/X/TF)

Stirling Council Archive Service

  • John Bruce (fl 1918-1921), gardener: garden diary rel to the Allan Water Hotel, Bridge of Allan 1918-1921 (A 1976)

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

  • Horringer Gardening Club: records, incl minutes, accounts and winner books 1911-2017 (GG505)

Surrey History Centre

  • Limpsfield, Oxted and District Horticultural Society: records incl minutes, corresp and accounts 1936-1997 (9969)

Trafford Local Studies

  • Moor Nook Allotment Society: minute books 1977-1995 (TRA1828)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • Wellesbourne and Walton Horticultural Society: records incl minutes, entry book, schedules, posters and printed items c1940-2017 (CR 4971)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

  • The Wakefield Paxton Society: records incl minutes 1877-2018 (WYW1890)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Seend and District Gardening Club: records incl minutes, reports, accounts and programmes 1992-2016 (2942B)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

  • Wilfred George Cole (fl 1953-1987), horticulturalist and pioneering organic farmer: diaries from Sandilands Nursery, Evesham 1953-1987 (BA16269)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Museum of Garden History: archive c1901-2000 (Add MS 89296)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

  • Hester Mallin (1969-2018), artist and gardener: artworks, papers and ephemera 1969-2003 (MALLIN)

University

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

  • Bristol University, Long Ashton Research Station: addtl material 1912-1956 (DM2759)

Museum of English Rural Life

  • William Herrod-Hempsall (fl 1930-1939), author and photographer: photographic glass plates rel to his research into bees and bee-keeping c1930-1939 (DX2269)