Zoom Talk: Shaping the Bedfordshire Landscape

Doors open: 3:45 pm

SHAPING THE BEDFORDSHIRE LANDSCAPE

Impact of William Ireland and Archibald Thomson at Southill Park and Luton Hoo

William Ireland 1744-1824 was one of Capability Brown’s foreman who shaped the Luton Hoo landscape and after Brown’s death was employed to finish redesigning Southill Park.

Archibald Thomson 1752-1832 was the botanical advisor to Lord Bute at Luton Hoo.  He subsequently ran an important nursery with Gordon and Thomson at Mile End, London.

 

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