Major accessions to repositories in 2001 relating to Gardening

Local

Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Cambridge

• Edward Peavely of Haslingfield (1743-1808): horticultural accounts 1774-1805 (R101/042)

Centre for Kentish Studies

• East Malling Horticultural Research Station: records 20th cent

Cornwall Record Office

• Cornwall Gardens Trust (addnl): records 20th cent (X897)

Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters

• Thorneyflats Allotment Society, Carlisle: records 1941-46 (DSO/211)

Herefordshire Record Office

• Marden Gardeners Association: minutes 1996-99

Isle of Wight Record Office

• Arreton Horticultural Society: minutes (5 vols) 1895-1956 (AC 2001/78)

London Borough of Sutton Archives

• Beddington & Wallington Gardeners and Allotment Holders Association: mins and annual reports 1968-96 (Acc 544)

London Metropolitan Archives: Joint Archive Service of the Corporation of London

• Manor Garden Centre: minutes, corresp and annual reports 1930-99 (B01/063)

Northamptonshire Record Office

• Bateman-Hanbury family, Barons Bateman: papers, incl Kelmarsh Hall garden notebook 1736-63 and corresp 1739-47 of William Hanbury with Thomas Tooly
• Ronald Ginns, teacher and gardner, Desborough: diaries and journals 1920-74

Oxfordshire Record Office

• N S Righton, market gardener, Chipping Norton: records 1925-49 (4938)
• South Oxford Horticultural Society: records 20th cent (4904)

Southampton Archives Office

• Southern Pelargonium Society, Southampton group: minutes and papers 1980-2001

University

Manchester University: John Rylands Library

• Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society of Manchester and the Northern Counties (addnl): minutes 1999 (Acc 2001/01)