Major accessions to repositories in 2010 relating to Gardening

Local

Bristol Record Office

• Bristol Botanical Club: minutes, reports, corresp and papers 1903-30 (44420)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

• Waddesdon and District Horticultural Society: minutes, accounts, history of the society 1899-1994 (D-X 1930)

Durham County Record Office

• Willington Chrysanthemum Society: minutes, accounts and records 1935-2009 (7532)

East Sussex Record Office

• Pevensey Bay Allotments Society: records 1954-2006 (10491)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• New Milton Horticultural Society: minutes 1930-85 (24A10)

Kingston Museum and Heritage Service

• Surbiton Horticultural Society: records 1885-2003 (KX452)

Lancashire Record Office

• Lytham St Annes Horticultural Society: records 1937-1988 (DDX 2789)

Norfolk Record Office

• Long Stratton and District Gardening Club: records incl minutes, accounts and programmes c1980-2010 (ACC 2010/138)

Somerset Heritage Centre

• Dunster Horticultural Society: minutes and exhibition poster 1869-1874 (A\DDA)

Surrey History Centre

• Horsell Allotment Association: records incl minutes, financial records, plans and corresp 1917-2005 (8700)

Sutton Local Studies & Archives Centre

• Worcester Park Horticultural Society: newsletters and minutes 1976-1990 (785)

Tyne and Wear Archives

• Rectory Road Allotment Holders Association: corresp against closure 1988-1997 (SX131)

Warwickshire County Record Office

• St Mary's Allotments Association, Leamington Spa: committee meeting minute book, account book, rent books 1909-1958 (CR4322)

West Glamorgan Archive Service

• Ynystawe Horticultural Association: minutes 1942-49

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

• Halifax and District Allotments Federation: minutes, agendas, corresp, memos, income and expenditure accounts, 1979-2007 (WYC:1271)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

• Huddersfield Allotments and Gardens Federation: minutes 1908-2006 (WYK1571)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

• St John's Mount Allotments, Wakefield: register 1969-1976 (WYW1730)

National

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

• William Bassett, gardener and agricultural superintendent: lecture notebooks whilst studying at Kew Gardens 1924-1930 (PrP 10-0036)
• Frederick George Harcourt, gardener and agricultural superintendent: letters, photographs and cuttings rel to time in Antigua and Dominica c1920-1970 (PrP 10-0030)

University

Dundee University Archive, Records Management and Museum Services

• Friends of the University of Dundee Botanic Garden: minutes, newsletters, papers 1982-2010 (2010/379)

Museum of English Rural Life

• Francis Pearce, head gardener, Eynsham Hall: letters and references 1908-13 (FR DX1913)