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David Trapnell leaves a remarkable legacy, only eight miles west of Cheltenham and of particular interest to landscape architects with ecological and artistic leanings. Nature in Art, the world’s first museum and art gallery dedicated to fine, decorative and applied…
Paraphrased from the Guardian obituary: in the 1960s Alice Coleman led the work on the Second Land Use Survey of Britain, the first comprehensive attempt since the 30s to record the use of land, using volunteers to map urban and…
For students interested in plants and planting, historic gardens and traditional techniques, then viewing the television series The Victorian Kitchen and Flower Garden will be very worthwhile, even dating from a number of years ago. It was mainly thanks to…
These photos were taken today at Cam Peak in the southern Cotswolds: a warm, sunny day presenting the wild bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) at their best. The location of the carpark at the foot of this hill is 51.6926, -2.3384. Google…
Bob Bray gave this year’s John Simpson memorial lecture last Tuesday. It was delivered at a leisurely but satisfyingly comprehensible tempo, tracing the history of water management from the ‘Great Stink’ lowpoint of 1858, through the Victorian ‘engineered’ solutions of…
A public lecture given by Bob Bray (Robert Bray Associates, Bristol Studio) Tuesday 25th April 2023, 18:45 Room TC001 (FCH campus) University of Gloucestershire JOHN SIMPSON 1929-2013 The John Simpson memorial lectures are held in honour of a former colleague…
Last week’s three-day workshop explored the possibilities of rewilding one of Cheltenham’s green corridors – the former elevated Honeybourne railway line, now a cycle and public footpath linking areas to the north of Cheltenham with the current mainline station Cheltenham…
Yesterday the Appraising Landscapes class ventured into the wide open country of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, undertaking a five-mile walk which took us up the back-slope from Seven Springs (source of the Thames) onto Wistley Hill which…