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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Geoffrey Jellicoe’s gift of his plan chest of drawings began the active collection of drawings and papers on 20C designed landscapes. It'd be wonderful to have a major exhibition celebrating Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe's work in landscape architecture. www.folar.uk/the-archive #FOLAR_LANDSCAPE #MERL

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Find out more about us at the 13th FOLAR AGM, 19th May, 6-7pm via Zoom. Contact info@folar.uk to join and we'll send you the link. But anyway, join us for the last in our series of talks about 'Doing a PhD' on 2nd June at 7.30 pm via Zoom by Kate Cullity Details here: www.folar.uk/events/braid...

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Braided Pathways: A Practice Sustained by Difference — FOLAR

Landscape architects Kevin Taylor, Kate Cullity, and Perry Lethlean, the three founding directors of Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL), collectively undertook a PhD by practice from RMIT in Melbourne, Vic...

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@folar.bsky.socialAre you thinking of doing a PhD or curious to learn more? Then please join our wonderful speakers over a series of 5 talks, kicking off on 17 March 2026 on zoom Book now for individual talks or all 5 talks at a discounted price on the FOLAR event’s webpage www.folar.uk/events

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

TOMORROW, Wednesday 4th February listen to the fourth talk of six 'In search of a new occupation c.1900–1930' by Catharina Nolin, professor of Art History at Stockholm University, about the first professional women landscape architects in Sweden and their English connections. www.folar.uk/events

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Saira Ali FLI is President Elect of the Landscape Institute & Team Leader of Landscape Design & Conservation at Bradford Council. Learn more TONIGHT 28Jan, at the 3rd online talk in partnership with The Gardens Trust, showcasing women pioneers, tickets £8 (members £6) www.folar.uk/events/shapi...

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Shaping public landscape — FOLAR

Saira Ali FLI is President Elect of the Landscape Institute and Team Leader of Landscape Design & Conservation at Bradford Council. An award-winning leader in blue-green infrastructure, co-design,...

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Building on our series of Women in Landscape, a new collection of six online talks - Women crossing boundaries in Landscape. Starts 14 January: Sisters in the Landscape - Miranda and Octavia Hill with Gillian Darley. £6 – £8 www.folar.uk/events

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Last chance weekend - ticket sales must close - see our Revised and Final Programme. Such an exciting cast of characters to entertain you all day long. Forget the tube strike and join our wonderful bubble and appreciate the calm garden of the Royal College of Physicians www.folar.uk/events/hal-m...

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Hal Moggridge - a FOLAR special celebration of his life and work — FOLAR

A unique event 11 Sept 2025, in London, to celebrate the continuing and distinguished career of Hal Moggridge - architect, landscape architect, PPLI, VMH, OBE, and more. Eminent speakers will review t...

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The subtle, gossamer touch of a true master, leaving a totally 'natural' landscape - the legacy of Hal Moggridge, architect, landscape architect, influencer. Is it important? Disagree? Why not stamp his style, ego everywhere? Some tickets left, for a stimulating day. www.folar.uk/events/hal-m...

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Hal Moggridge - a FOLAR special celebration of his life and work — FOLAR

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

youtu.be/HjCUNW146D4?... Hal Moggridge's first job was in Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe's office, then in Brenda Colvin's. This summary of his landscape architecture design philosophy is narrated by Tom Turner and is from Hal's book: Slow Growth For tickets for our celebration: www.folar.uk/events/hal-m...

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Hal Moggridge's Philosophy of Landscape Architecture

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Ingenious way of providing aesthetics to the face of a dam... Get anyone and everyone involved! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkea... Find out more on 11 September at this event to celebrate Hal Moggridge's lifetime of variety at work www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkea...

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Landscape treatment of reservoir dam facing - Hal Moggridge

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

No mention of the garden designers? Find out the inside story at this celebration event 11 Sept in London when eminent speakers will review the wide range of projects by Hal Moggridge folar.uk/events/hal-m... theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Spoiler alert - yes he was! #HalMoggridgeSymposium

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The other millennium dome: how Wales’s National Botanic Garden came back from the brink

Site had to be saved from closure after visitor slump in 00s but is now a thriving biodiversity success story

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Swimming should be permitted in water storage reservoirs - what do you think? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_J... Come and find out more at a highly anticipated event on 11 September, in London Don't put it off! Buy now to avoid disappointment www.folar.uk/events/hal-m... #HalMoggridgeSymposium

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Swimming in water storage reservoirs - Hal Moggridge

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

As landscape architecture Trimpley Reservoir is a great success For LA CPD you can't do better than the approach of Brenda Colvin and Hal Moggeridge: always be polite, accurate and diplomatic, sometimes be fierce. Book now for the Hal Moggridge Celebration on 11 Sept www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTHz...

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Trimpley bunded reservoir - Hal Moggridge

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Pump storage reservoirs function as batteries. Hal Moggridge Celebration on 11 Sept 2025 www.folar.uk/events/hal-m... The government plans new reservoirs & the profession needs to gen up on the approach that has given C&M a dramatic range of project types. Great CPD! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jtg...

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Pump storage reservoirs - Hal Moggridge

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This Saturday, 21 June, join us for an unprecedented chance to be one of 25 FOLAR MEMBERS to meet Hal Moggridge on his guided tour of one of his projects, Upton Wold in Moreton-in-Marsh. Further information & ticket information www.folar.uk/events/visit... FOLAR members JOIN www.folar.uk/membership

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Visit to Upton Wold Garden with Hal Moggridge — FOLAR

FOLAR celebrates Hal Moggridge’s life and works with a garden visit to Upton Wold. In 1976 Caroline and Ian Bond asked Colvin & Moggridge to design a garden for their newly restored Cotswold manor...

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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Visit to Upton Wold Garden with Hal Moggridge — FOLAR

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7au... Government plans for new reservoirs means LAs needs to gen up & here's how. Great CPD! Full lecture Landscape architecture of reservoirs by Hal Moggridge www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7k... Book now for the Hal Moggridge Celebration on 11 Sept 25 www.folar.uk/events/

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Victorian Reservoir Design - Hal Moggridge

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

FRIENDS OF GORDON RUSSELL DESIGN MUSEUM talks, Charles O’Brien, joint Series Editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides will explore the founding and development of volumes covering the architecture of the cities, towns and villages of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. mailchi.mp/cf24ca932b9c...

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Online talk 27 June 2025 on Revising Pevsner: a Short History of the Buildings of...series 1951-2024

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Landscape design advice on reservoir dam facing. Book now for Hal Moggridge Celebration on 11 Sept 2025. www.folar.uk/events/hal-m... Government plans new reservoirs and the profession needs to gen up on what has given C&M a dramatic range of projects. Great CPD! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkea...

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Landscape treatment of reservoir dam facing - Hal Moggridge

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

FRIENDS OF GORDON RUSSELL DESIGN MUSEUM - Charles O’Brien, joint Series Editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, will explore the founding and development of the series covering the architecture of the cities, towns and villages of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. mailchi.mp/cf24ca932b9c...

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Online talk 27 June 2025 on Revising Pevsner: a Short History of the Buildings of...series 1951-2024

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Highlighting the possible fate of Lawrence Halprin's 1972 fountain for a Modernist Plaza, San Fransisco. Not protected, there is a proposal to demolish it due to redevelopment. URGENT sign the petition! www.tclf.org/new-video-hi...

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SAUVONS LA VAILLANCOURT FOUNTAIN – UNE ŒUVRE MONUMENTALE EN PÉRIL

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Hal Moggridge - a FOLAR special celebration of his life and works, London 11 Sept, 2025. Tom Turner will speak on Hal's approach to landscape architecture and the evolution of his design style www.folar.uk/events/hal-m... #HalMoggridgeSymposium #Landscapearchitecture www.youtube.com/shorts/n-sE7...

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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It's a woodland (very much FOLAR territory!). The masterplan emphasised its value.

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦, in London on 11 Sept 2025 in London, marking his 90th. Who else began work in Geoffrey Jellicoe’s office, became a partner, with Brenda Colvin in Britain’s oldest landscape practice? Nobody. See lnkd.in/euj9f_wW #HalMoggridgeSymposium www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtH...

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Hal Moggridge Symposium 11th September 2025

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

At Lancaster University for the launch of Richard Brook's brilliant book on postwar Manchester architecture and planning.

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

that dotty black rectangle that breaches the 'boundary' road but not included in the key - is that an existing something? Very stylish plan!

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is our Bulk store, where we keep our non-metal artefacts. It takes 2 hours and 9 minutes to hoover, thanks for asking. 🧹😩

A large warehouse space with rows or racking running into the distance and in the foreground a collection of large masonry fragments.

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Mary McHugh @mmkier.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My alma mater! I wish I could see the exhibition - but at least I can follow all the on-line podcasts. Can't wait!!

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@folar.bsky.social Celebrating 75 years of landscape teaching and research at Newcastle University: events including exhibitions, discussions with the landscape team, & a series of interviews delving into the history and development of the landscape course -see here www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/research...

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Celebrating 75 years of landscape teaching and research at Newcastle University STAY TUNED FOR A NEW EPISODE /WEEK: starting THIS TUESDAY 16-May with Maggie Roe 23-May with Nigel Hackett (son of Brian Hackett) 30-May with Ian Thompson 6-June with Anne Benson (widow of John Benson) More to follow!!!!

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

doi.org/10.1093/ref:... David Lambert's insightful account of Mavis Batey's extraordinary life at Bletchley and her second flowering as garden historian, campaigner, activist, conservationist, author, teacher, colleague and friend to many at the Garden History Society - an inspirational woman !

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Batey [née Lever], Mavis Lilian (1921–2013), code-breaker and garden historian

"Batey [née Lever], Mavis Lilian (1921–2013), code-breaker and garden historian" published on by Oxford University Press.

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Thorp Modelmaking Archive @thorparchive.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This 1947 model was made by Leslie Thorp to be presented to the House of Lords to illustrate Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's plans for the new Bankside power station. In the foreground, vacant plots mark buildings destroyed during WWII.

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Thorp Modelmaking Archive @thorparchive.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The label suggests this was not actually made by Thorp, perhaps photographed by them in their studio, but a stunning illusion nevertheless, with a model neatly merging with a painted backdrop. The M74 motorway in 1968.

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

what did people think of it at the time it opened? when and why did we fall out with this style? it is beautiful (if there is space) and gutsy and where the receptionist/warden/bursar sits where the opening /transaction space is carved out of the wall (it seems) is so clever and simple thank you

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Angel Egret 😇 Taken last weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊😍🐦 #Birds 🪶

A great white Egret flying overhead with legs trailing and eyes looking down and wings held in an angel like pose

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

'The Flower Walk, Kensington Gardens,' (1897) is such a beautiful vignette of late Victorian England; painting the London parks preoccupied Paul Maitland for the last decade and half of his career.

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This was such a fab talk by Bruce Thompson + Mike Westley. FOLAR are looking to hear from other of Marian Thompson's former Thames Poly -Greenwich Uni students - pl get in touch info@folar.uk

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Given that Runcorn is in the news, here's the story of Runcorn New Town ... born in more hopeful times: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/r...

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FOLAR @folar-landscape.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

www.velonotte.com#!--2/c1ntu Plants tell London's stories: Sunset bike promenade with botanists, historians & special soundtrack. Sat May 10 17:00. 400 years of the Ark of John Tradescant, first botanical garden of Europe, Jennifer Potter, Dan Pearson, Roy Vickery Tim Waterman, Christian Burkhard

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Velonotte Botanica goest to London!

May 10th, 2025: London pleasure plants as told by night, by bike, by experts and with music. Get your early-flower ticket for the ride

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Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Congratulations to @themerl.bsky.social public programming and front of house team. Kudos to the folks who our led public-facing work in the past. Thanks to 7 decades of Museum-goers. Without you, we're a lonely shed of old rural guff, but with you we're a thriving community of smock-loving legends!

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Amazing KINDER RISING swim trespass today attended by hundreds - remembering the unfinished business started by the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass in 1932, & calling on Labour to make history again by passing a Right to Roam Act. Great speech too by Labour MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social!

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The GLC maintaining those earlier conventions at Drummond House, Hackney, built by the London County Council in 1950.

Sign prohibiting hawkers, traders and others from calling, shouting or using any bell or other instrument

Front view of five-storey tenement block

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Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Have been so impressed with the traffic reduction in Paris. Only one lane for traffic here - including buses. Most of the street dedicated to walking and cycling. Side streets just for walking and cycling but also with trees, public toilets and benches.

Shopping street in Paris with two lanes for cycling and one for driving

Narrow street in Paris with street trees, bike lane and public toilet

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Dusty Gedge @dustygedge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

More to come but @joebeale.bsky.social @garrypogson.bsky.social Wall on the wall With white stag SW corner of #blackheath. Seems settled. Just so you know. #butterflies @ukbutterflies.bsky.social 1st one in 36 years of being here. Very 😎😎

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