Transcript Anniversaries - Parks & Gardens UK

Anniversaries
presenter: Jenifer White, English Heritage
• Why anniversaries?
• The Diamond Jubilee, Olympics and
Paralympics showed how events can bring
people together
• Enthusiasm to provide more opportunities to
foster a sense of community and national pride
• Marking anniversaries to relate histories
• October 2013 - Heritage Lottery Fund
announced £10m funding for anniversaries over
next four years
www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/AnniverariesFundin
g.aspx
Coming up …just a few examples
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Dylan Thomas 100th
Magna Carta 800th
Agincourt 600th
Battle of Waterloo 200th (and lots of historic park
associations e.g. Waterloo Gardens)
Shakespeare’s death 400th
Beatrix Potter 150th... and
WWI centenary 2014-2018
Capability Brown tercentenary 2016
World War I centenary
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© War Memorials Trust
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Huge range of
commemorative initiatives to
mark World War I –
Government, Imperial War
Museums. HLF,
Commonwealth War Graves
Commission, BBC…
11.11.13 Culture Secretary
announces English Heritage
is to list up to 500 war
memorials a year over the
next 5 years
Call to the public to nominate
local memorials to be
considered for listing
Currently 1300 listed
memorials – probably less
than 10% of all war memorials
www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/first-world-war-centenary
War Memorials Trust
www.warmemorials.org
*Image of front cover of War Memorials Trust
guidance on conservation of memorial
landscapes
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All war memorials – not just
monuments …parks, gardens,
recreation grounds, avenues,
buildings
WMT provide advice and run grant
schemes for the repair and
conservation of war memorials
Promotes high quality and best
conservation practice in all
projects
Including landscape settings of
monuments and landscape
memorials (see leaflet)
Ongoing projects …HLF has
allocated £28m for WWI related
projects to date, 19.12.13 Prime
Minister announces £5m to
preserve war memorials
Recording war memorials landscapes,
and the Register of Parks and Gardens
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The war memorial designed by Lutyens in Leicester’s Victoria
Park (registered Grade II
© Jonathan Rawle jonathan.rawle.org
Timely to record war memorial
parks and designed landscapes
and develop
www.parksandgardens.org
inventory
Research and recording to
develop a better understanding
of significance designs
Many registered parks and
gardens with WWI associations
e.g. country houses used as
hospitals or military offices,
public parks with war
memorials, and of course
cemeteries
But to date only 4 registered war
memorial parks … starting with
the most recent registration
1. War Memorial Park, Coventry
(added January 2013)
photos from www.historiccoventry.co.uk
• Grade II
• 48 hectares
• Local authority
design 1921-35
• Public subscription
• Listed Art Deco
memorial, and
gateway
• Sport and
recreation
• WWII avenue
memorial
2. Nottingham Memorial Gardens
(added March 2001)
www.britainfromabove.org.uk – taken 1928
• Grade II
• 14.7 hectares
• Local authority design
1927
• Listed structures
• Donated by Sir Jesse
Boot ‘to be preserved as
open space and a
memorial site in
perpetuity,
• Recreation grounds and
playing fields
3. Fleetwood Memorial Park
(added September 2011)
• Grade II
• 7 hectares
• Designed by Sir Leslie
Patrick Abercrombie 1925
• Developed from earlier
Warrenhurst Park as
memorial to the ‘Fallen of
Fleetwood’
• Recreation – tennis ,
bowling
• Typical period features –
rockery, rose garden
• Associated feature –
Remembrance Avenue
From flydeantiquarian.treeforums.org
geograph,.org.uk © David Dixon
4. Walsall Memorial Garden
(added April 1999)
From Black Country Bugle
From Flickr © Stuart Williams
• Grade II
• 2 hectares 70mx25m
• Geoffrey Jellicoe 1952
• Designed to
commemorate two
world wars
• Registered as marking
significant step in
Jellicoe’s design ideas
• Part of a more
extensive regeneration
scheme
David Lambert’s typology
from
The Parks Agency, 2012 ‘War Memorial Park, Wickford, Essex. The Historical Context’
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Small garden settings to war memorials
under 0.5ha
Ornamental gardens containing war
memorials with no sports or games
facilities 0.5-2ha
Public parks chiefly comprising sports
pitches (recreation grounds) 2-5ha
Public parks with traditional range of
amenities and sports provision 2-10ha
Large public parks with typical park
facilities but largely dedicated to sports
(any size)
Other kinds of dedicated public open
space
Associated or other dedicated landscape
features such as avenues, regeneration
schemes
Examples form David’s report:
Wickford War Memorial Park, Essex
War Memorial Park, Romsey
Gheluvelt Park, Worcester
Kirkham recreation ground, Lancashire
Forster Memorial Park, Lewisham
North Walsham Park, Norfolk
Oatlands War Memorial Playing Fields
Memorial Park, Herne Bay
Woodbank Memorial Park, Stockport
Heanor Memorial Park, Derbyshire
Pelton Fell Memorial Park, Chester-le-Street
Sileby War Memorial Park, Leicestershire
Carr Bank Memorial Park, Mansfield
War Memorial Park, Sutton Bridge
War Memorial Park, Basingstoke
Willenhall Memorial Park, Walsall
Gardens of Remembrance, Lichfield
Capability Brown tercentenary 2016
CB300
www.capabilitybrown.org
• Lancelot Brown 2016-1783
(baptised 30 August 1716 at
Kirkharle)
• National partnership set up to
organise 2016 celebration
• HLF application – due to hear
outcome end of January 2014
• Key role of county garden trusts,
NADFAS and other volunteers in
recording Brown landscapes and
supporting owners to open up
sites for visitors in 2016
Nathaniel Dance’s portrait Wikimedia Commons/National Portrait Gallery
Research and attributions
• University of East Anglia Research Review
• John Phibbs list of attributions - Garden
History Winter 2013
• Next steps – to develop an online
catalogue of records
Recording Brown landscapes like
other nationally important art
e.g. Turner and Tate’s in-depth ‘Turner Worldwide’
comprehensive online catalogue
Artwork details
Artist Joseph Mallord William
Turner (1775-1851)
Title:The Deer in Petworth
Park
Date:1827
Medium Watercolour and
body colour on paper
Dimensions support: 140 x
190 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the
nation as part of the Turner
Bequest 1856
Reference: D22669
Turner Bequest: CCXLIV 7
On loan to: Toyko
Metropolitan Art Museum
(Toyko, Japan)
Can you help?
• Recording WWI memorial landscapes?
• Recording Capability Brown landscapes?
• Contribute records to improve
understanding of our historic designed
landscape heritage?
• New discoveries?
• Identify candidates or new information for
the Register of Parks and Gardens?