Tag: Grottoes
London Landscapes – Autumn / Winter 2012
Rock Landscapes: The Pulham Legacy
Claude Hitching
Published by Garden Art Press, for the Antique Collectors Club, Suffolk 2012 – (RRP 235) ISBN 978-1 -87067-376-1
During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, as new plants flooded into the UK from around the world, rockeries, and decorative rockwork gained in popularity. Many were built on a grandiose scale to display rare and unusual alpine and mountain plants, both in private gardens and later in public parks. A large rockery might have mini-ravines, grottoes, waterfalls and even purpose-built caves. Continue reading “London Landscapes – Autumn / Winter 2012”
1873-80 – Park Hill, Streatham, London
SM 14 – Jul 12
‘Park Hill Mansion’ was one of several very large properties situated on Streatham Common North, in southeast London. They were once the homes and estates of some very wealthy people – providing, as they did, a commanding view over Streatham, and to the heights of Wimbledon and the Surrey Hills beyond. Continue reading “1873-80 – Park Hill, Streatham, London”