Major accessions to repositories in 1999 relating to Gardening

Local

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

• Tattenhall Horticultural Society: minutes 1957-81 (D 5718)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Burdett family, baronets, of Foremark: accounts, corresp and maps, incl design for garden and grounds 17th-20th cent (D5054)

Dorset Record Office

• Bankes family of Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle (addnl): architectural drawings incl works by Wyatt and J Tranah on Kingston Lacy House and plans for garden, Studland Manor House, Cliffend and Coombe House (12 boxes) c1870-1932 (D/BKL)

East Sussex Record Office

• Groombridge and District Horticultural Society: yearbooks 1994-98 (A7992)
• Northiam and District Horticultural Society: minutes and other records 1988-99 (A7920)

Essex Record Office

• Hedgetrimmers Club (Hutton and Shenfield): records, incl minutes, accounts, secretary's papers, lists of speakers and members 1945-96 (D/Z 353)

Hillingdon Local Studies and Archives

• Mr F Keates, Hayes: allotment records 1975-84 (A99/4)

Lancashire Record Office

• Brockholes Hospital: farm and garden trading account book 1954-58 (HRBC)

Sheffield Archives

• Bagshawe family of Wormhill, Derbyshire and Oakes-in-Norton, Yorkshire: deeds, maps and plans of gardens 18th-20th cent (1999/013)

Somerset Archive and Record Service

• Hestercombe House and Gardens, Cheddon Fitzpaine: house and grounds plans, incl planting plans of the formal gardens by Gertrud Jekyll and Warre family papers 1862-1975 (C/FB)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire Record Office

• Anson family, Earls of Lichfield (addnl): draft estate maps by Samuel Botham c1795; plans of Shugborough mansion, farm and gardens 1882-1997 (D 5800, D5829)

Surrey History Centre

• Francis Jekyll: letters, and presentation copy of 'Gertrude Jekyll, A Memoir' 1934 (6582)
• Ottershaw and District Horticultural Association: minute and membership books, petty cash book, flower show papers 1948-80 (6591)

Trafford Local Studies

• Altrincham Chrysanthemum Society: records 1904-60

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• Powell's Gardens Allotments Association, Gateshead: minutes, corresp and papers 1917-90 (HO/GD)

National

States of Guernsey Island Archives Service

• Charles Smith & Son, Caledonia nursery, St Peter Port: accounts, catalogues and other records 1853-1972
• Royal Guernsey Agricultural and Horticultural Society: minutes and other records 1842-1987 incl register and accounts of Agricultural Society of Guernsey 1817-42

Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design

• Olive Sullivan, interior designer and editor of 'House and Garden': papers c1920-95 (AAD/1999/3)