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Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Horticulture

Local

Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

  • Horncliffe Spring Bulb Show: minutes and photographs 1958-2020 (BRO 2708)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Federation of Edinburgh and District Allotments and Gardens Association: records with digitised images 1945-1997 (1263)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Alresford and District Horticultural Society: minutes, photographs, newspaper cuttings, notes on the history of the Society 1947-2021 (48A21)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Blofield and District Gardening Club: minutes, general correspondence, photographs and other papers 1971-2016 (ACC 2021/188)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Elton Manor: gardening journal 1863-1867 (DD/2792)
  • Pauline Buttery, (dc2019), orchard enthusiast: photographs with accompanying notes, articles and news cuttings of orchard plantings in and around Southwell c2008-2010 (DD/2812)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

  • Eldwick And Gilstead Horticultural Societies: records incl minute books, accounts and order and subscription book 1941-2011 (WYB819)

National

Historic Environment Scotland (formerly RCAHMS)

  • Fiona Jamieson (fl 2004), horticultural historian: research notes and photographs rel to gardens and designed landscapes in Scotland c2004 (2021/12)

Special

Garden Museum Archives

  • Sowing Roots - Caribbean Garden Heritage Project: recordings (15) of interviews conducted by Oral Historian Jen Kavanagh and the participants of the project, exploring the history of the gardening cultures and traditions that Caribbean people carried with them when they moved to the UK after the Second World War 2021 (CGHP)

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

  • Derick Humphrey Waterfield (1908-1971), landscape gardener and artist: travel journals, notebooks and sketchbooks; also incl some correspondence with his grandfather, Henry Waterfield (1837-1913), civil servant and private secretary to successive Secretaries of State for India c1848-1970 (DHW)

University

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

  • Janet Boulton (b1936), artist: papers rel to her work on "Little Sparta", an art garden by Ian Hamilton Finlay, comprising photographs, correspondence, transparencies, sketchbooks and albums, diaries, and publications 1990-2018 (Coll-2018; SC-Acc-2021-0002)

Glasgow University Archive Services

  • Scottish Allotments and Garden Society: papers rel to the society accumulated by the late R. Gilbert Clarke MBE (1921-2020) 20th cent (GLAASC ACCN 00026)

Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department

  • Sir John Powlett Orde (1803-1878) of Kilmory, Argyll: letters received from Stewart Murray, first curator of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens; with catalogue of seeds for the gardens of Kilmory laid out by William Jackson Hooker; Dr Hooker's Account of North Uist Seeds 1833-1866 (GB 247 MS Murray Add 4)

Heriot-Watt University Heritage Service

  • Currie Horticultural and Flower Show: minutes and publications 1990-2011 (CPS)