Major accessions to repositories in 2002 relating to Gardening

Local

Angus Archives

• Carnoustie and District Horticultural Society: records 1887-1999 (MS 739)

Berkshire Record Office

• Reading Horticultural and Allotment Federation: records 1940-44 (D/EX 1747)

Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre

• Falconwood and District Horticultural Society: minutes and accounts 1955-2002 (CS/FDH)

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

• Geoffrey Campbell Bushby, Sibbersfield Hall, Churton: horticultural scrapbook c1945 (D 6375/1)

Derbyshire Record Office

• James Smith & Sons, nurserymen, Darley Dale: business records 1852-1911 (D504/80/1)

Devon Record Office

• Stoke Fleming Horticultural and Sports Society: minutes and accounts 1950-2000 (6235)

Dundee City Archives

• William Andrew, schoolmaster: diaries and papers incl material rel to Kettins School gardens and meteorological station 1895-1961

Ealing Local History Centre

• Acton Chrysanthemum, Dahlia and Floral Art Society: records 1950-2001 (Accession 304)

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Records Service

• Beverley Chrysanthemum Society: minute books 1953-89 (DDX 856)
• Pocklington Floral and Horticultural Society: minutes c1858-1906 (PC 52)

Essex Record Office

• Woodham Ferrers Garden Produce Association: minutes 1944-50 (D/DU 2043, A11046)

Flintshire Record Office

• Flint and District Horticultural Society: records 1979-95 (D/DM/1477)

Lancashire Record Office

• Reedley Hallows Horticultural Society: records incl minutes, accounts, subscriptions, corresp, programmes, show papers 1948-2001 (DDX 2348)

Northamptonshire Record Office

• Northampton and County Flower Club: minutes and members register 1955-95

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

• Egg Buckland Allotment Association: minute book 1949-62 (Acc 2778)

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

• John Hill & Sons, nurserymen and forest tree growers, Spot Acre: accounts, letter books and work diaries c1890-1999 (6168)
• Gnosall and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society: minutes and other records 1929-61 (D6115)

Surrey History Centre

• Burree family of Manor Farm, market gardeners, Byfleet: cropping diaries 1955-84 (7239)
• Alan Mitchell, dendrologist and ornithologist (addnl): notebook of recording tree species in the Farnham area and elsewhere in Surrey and Hampshire 1970-95 (6983 additional)
• Reigate and Redhill Horticultural Society: records incl minutes, show schedules and MSS history of the society 1931-2001 (7178)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• Whitley Bay, Monkseaton & District Horticultural Society: minutes 1912-76 (SX99)

Warrington Library, Museum and Archives Service

• Stockton Heath Garden Society: minutes, papers and corresp 1909-2002 (MS 2844)

University

Heriot-Watt University Archives

• Currie Parish Horticultural and Industrial Society: records 1926-2000 (2366)