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Year Of The Garden

Series

Series Name
This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.
1107
Date Released
1980
Length of issue (in feet)
175
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Year Of The Garden

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
COI synopsis: In this, The Year of the Garden in Britain, Barbara Ewing visits three gardens which differ greatly in size, shape and location, but are all the products of the passionate enthusiasm for gardening which is shown by so many of the British.
Researcher Comments
Places visited include Scotney Castle in Kent and the private gardens of Daphne Royle in a south London square and Hester Malin on the 23rd fllor of a London tower block, both of whom are interviewed. The head gardener of Scotney Castle, Mr Martin is also interviewed. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
Keywords
Horticulture
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 936/1107
Credits:
Presenter
Barbara Ewing
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Cutter
T. Oliver

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