Art & Craft Garden
 

I noticed this the other week on ebay:

The Art & Crafts Garden~Broad Oak~Accrington~Lancs.1900 on eBay (end time 24-Mar-11 19:28:53 GMT)

Everything about it says Arts & Crafts Movement. Now, I know we have an excellent example of this art in Church, but as regards the design for this garden, I'm perplexed. Was it ever built? Exactly where so? Are the remnants still there? If it wasn't built, why not?

The landscape gardner was the top knob of his day - the Edwardian Capability Brown - so this would have been quite a coup. But was it just another one of great ideas around Accy that never came to fruition?

Re: Art & Craft Garden
 

There was also Gertrude Jekyll's garden at Dyke Nook.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...gton-2161.html

Quite impressive really.

Perhaps it'll turn out that it was Vita Sackville-West, who first brought the flower towers to Accy.

:D

Re: Art & Craft Garden
 

I suspect that this could relate to Oak Hill Park and the place name terminology has got a little twisted down the years. If it is Oak Hill Park, then it would be interesting to see if anyone can spot if there is 'owt still surviving from 1900 (assuming, of course, that the original garden plan went ahead).

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I did mention the garden in this thread.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ans-51415.html

View of Garden Broad Oak Accrington from The Art and Craft of Garden Making by Thomas Mawson reproduction by Thomas Hayton Mawson - Artchive.com

(James Barlow Macalpine #6)

The Arts & Crafts garden was supposedly at the Macalpine's house, Broad Oak.

Re: Art & Craft Garden
 

I missed your thread.

So what's on the site now?