Major accessions to repositories in 2006 relating to Gardening

Local

Angus Archives

• Charles Arnot & Son, nurserymen, Forfar: receipts etc 1922-1941 (MS 856)

Bath and North East Somerset Record Office

• Thomas J Hopkins, landscape gardener: papers 20th cent (Acc 686)

Berkshire Record Office

• Hurst Horticultural Society: minutes and other records 1906-2006 (D/EX 2002)
• Sutton Courtenay Horticultural Society: annual show papers 1950-83 (D/EX 1995)

Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

• Lowick Leek Club: minutes 1988-2002 (BRO 01203)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

• Scott Ellis Gardens Residents Association, St Johns Wood: records incl minutes, annual reports, accounts, newsletters and photographs 1987-2005 (Acc 2459)

Croydon Archives Service

• Park Hill Allotment and Garden Society: minutes and corresp 1977-2002 (A840)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Stanley Allotment Association: minutes, accounts and list of applicants for allotments 1892-1973 (D6589)

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

• Beverley and District Chrysanthemum Society: additional records 2005 (DDX856)

East Sussex Record Office

• Seaford and District Horticultural Society: records incl minutes 1927-2005 (ACC 9416)

Essex Record Office

• Broadclyst Nurseries, Leigh-on-Sea: financial records c1940-1959 (D/F 288)

Gloucestershire Archives

• Cheltenham Horticultural Society: minutes, corresp and papers 1972-2004 (D10456)
• Forestry Commission: papers rel to Westonbirt Arboretum incl weather records, planting record books, corresp and photographs 1888-1984 (D10483)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• St Albans Floral Arrangement Group: minutes 1957-2000 (Acc 4026)

Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre

• Lewisham Gardens Guild: minutes 1953-64 (A/06/19)

Norfolk Record Office

• Preston family, baronets, of Beeston St Lawrence: Beeston Hall gardener's accounts 1844 (MC 2414)

Shropshire Archives

• Castlefields Allotment Association: ledger 1932-1969 (7445)

Somerset Record Office

• Taunton Deane Horticultural and Floricultural Society: records 1970-2006 (DD\X\TF)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Clopton Horticultural Society: minute book and record book 1953-1981 (GC679)

Surrey History Centre

• Worplesdon Garden Club: minutes and accounts 1936-2004 (8010)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

• Dewsbury Allotment Association Ltd: records c1920-1999 (WYAS3214)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

• John Lacy, garden boy, Rodwell Hall: diary 1925-1940 (3519)
• Wiltshire Orchid Society: minutes, accounts and papers (3562)

University

Reading University: Museum of English Rural Life

• Horticultural Education Association: minutes and photographs 1945-84 (SR 2MS1096)