Major accessions to repositories in 2014 relating to Gardening

Local

Bath Record Office

• Keynsham and District Horticultural Society: minute books and Annual Show material 1887-1939 (1074)

Devon Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

• Exeter Garden Club: administrative records, accounts and other material 20th-21st cent (8825)

Dorset History Centre

• The Watercress Co Ltd, watercress growers, Dorchester: photographs and papers 20th cent (D2576)

East Sussex Record Office

• East Blatchington Pond Conservation Society: minutes and newsletters 2004-2013 (Acc 12007)
• Seaford and District Horticultural Society: additional records 1950-2011 (Acc 12050)

Essex Record Office

• Chelmsford Floral Club: records incl minutes, accounts, attendance register, cuttings books, records rel to 50th anniversary celebrations 1962-2009 (A13949)

Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office

• Dyffryn Ogwen Flower Club: minutes 1979-1995 (XM13134)

Gwynedd Archives, Meirionnydd Record Office

• Llanuwchllyn Gardening Club: minute books 1979-2012 (Z/M/7316)

Lancashire Archives

• Forest of Pendle Junior Flower Club: scrapbooks 1993-2008 (DDX 3031)
• Nether Kellet Gardening Club: records incl minutes, financial records, papers rel to primary school garden project and village gardens days 2004-2014 (DDX 3065)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Brockington Flower and Garden Club, Enderby: minutes, photograph album and scrap book 1962-2002 (DE8764)
• Thurnby Flower Club: minutes 1983-2007 (DE8780)

Lincolnshire Archives

• Bridge End Road Allotment Association (Grantham) Ltd: records incl minutes, accounts and share registers 1920-2009 (MISC DEP 733)

Norfolk Record Office

• Thorpe St Andrew Horticultural Society: minutes, accounts, secretary's corresp and reports, photographs and slides 1961-2014 (ACC 2014/274)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

• Barton upon Humber Allotment Society: deeds, minutes and papers 1850-2011 (1370)

Powys County Archives Office

• Welshpool and District Horticultural Society: records incl minutes, attendance and membership registers, programmes, accounts and scrapbooks 1894-2014 (M/SOC/14)

Shropshire Archives

• Meole Brace Garden and Allotment Club: records incl minutes, newsletters, accounts, corresp, membership lists and show papers 1994-2007 (8858)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

• Somerset Gardens Trust: garden surveys and photographs 1990-2009 (A\ASM)

Southwark Local History Library and Archive

• Stuart Road Allotments Society: accounts 1923-1982 (2014/36)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Alpine Garden Society, Ipswich Group: records incl minutes 1984-2014 (GC833)

West Sussex Record Office

• Petworth Horticultural Society: minutes, with papers rel to the Society's history 1946-2014 (17796)
• West Sussex Growers Association: papers rel to Glasshouse Crop Research Institute, Littlehampton 1966-1980 (17627)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

• Abbots Morton Garden Club: minutes, photographs and other records 1998-2013 (15701)

National

Island Archives, Guernsey

• West Agricultural and Horticultural Show, Guernsey: additional records 1987-2010 (AQ 1398 (4-5))

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• Manor Garden Allotments Campaign: papers, campaign materials and press cuttings (MGAC)

University

Glasgow University Archive Services

• Scottish Allotments and Garden Society: additional minute book 1995-2005 (ACCN 3833)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections

• Humphrey Morrison Burkill (1914-2006), botanist: corresp, papers, oral history recordings and photographs mainly by his father, Isaac Henry Burkill c1900-2005 (9673)