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Linden Groves

@lindengroves.co.uk
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I'm all things historic parks, gardens and playgrounds and also giving it my best shot as Director of www.thegardenstrust.org

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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 28/08/2025
Surprising and brilliant topiary choice at #HeverCastle, providing a fantastic insight into the undercarriage of its greener and more traditional neighbours #topiary #horticulture #gardens #kent
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 12/06/2025
Very much looking forward to hearing Kate Felus on this little known garden at #Salisbury Cathedral. It's tonight, in London and there are still tix... come! georgiangroup.org.uk/event-direct...
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Wyatt, Constable and Salisbury Cathedral Close: the Designed Landscape
The story of the move of Salisbury Cathedral from Old Sarum in the 12th century is well known. What is
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 19/05/2025
I've been quiet here recently - preoccupied by the UK government's proposal to remove statutory consultee role from the Gardens Trust, the only national organisation with a remit to care for our unique historic parks and gardens. Do please read and share: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2056...
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UK's historic gardens and parks 'under threat' from 'shameful' Labour proposals
EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners warn that proposed changes by Labour, ostensibly to make new developments easier to approve, threaten the future of cherished green sites.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
👉🏼 C20 JOB ALERT: Want to help shape the future of heritage?We're recruiting a new Head of Casework to join our high profile team. This is a crucial role, and one requiring a high degree of skill, knowledge and integrity. More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us Application deadline: Mon 7 April.
Iluustration: Mark Long
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 20/03/2025
The government is proposing to remove the Gardens Trust's essential role as a statutory consultee in the English planning system. Get up to speed and show your support at our timely conference, online or in person. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-con...
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London Conference - Historic Landscape Assembly
A Conference at 77 Cowcross Street, London on Thurs 3rd April 9.30 – 4.30 Tickets from £34, incl refreshments & buffet lunch. All welcome
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Gardens, Heritage & Planning @gardenheritage.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
All 3 changes to the statutory consultees are of concern. The benefits of historic parks and gardens/the Gardens Trust are outlined here: bit.ly/3FjRvx8. Also of concern are the lack of coherence of (and justification for) the wider proposals, and what all this signals for the future of planning.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 10/03/2025
Shocking move by the government to remove statutory consultee status from sole organisation looking at UK's world-envied heritage of parks and gardens. We're a tiny charity with brilliant volunteers providing this service to the nation - do show your support. thegardenstrust.org/the-gardens-...
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News - The Gardens Trust
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
For #internationalwomensday, a couple of my favourite Shirley Baker photos of girls playing -
Two girls hanging upside from a railing, by Shirley Baker, 1960sTwo girls playing around a lamppost, by Shirley Baker, 1965
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 05/03/2025
Fantastic discussions at Heritage Day today, filled with talk of passion, determination and collaboration, interspersed with the Tower of London in sunshine. Huge thanks to @heritagealliance.bsky.social @heritagelizzie.bsky.social @carolelsouter.bsky.social @delphinejb.bsky.social for hosting
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
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Miss History G, Linda @misshistoryg2.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Inside the Victorian Glasshouse. A #monochrome #photograph of the interior of a Victorian greenhouse taken on a sunny day at #Errdig Hall, North Wales. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInside #gardens #greenhouses #PhotoOfTheDay
A back and white photograph of the interior of a Victorian greenhouse. The picture shows the metal supports, ceiling and windows, all painted a startling white colour. Shadows play over the wooden benching.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 19/02/2025
Thanks for all the recent follows! Apologies my posts have been scarce recently, but here's what you need to know... I really love parks and gardens and am on a mission to share at every opportunity. Let me know if you feel the same!
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Prof. Ian Mell @ianmell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This looks like it could be a really cool research job working with Silvio Caputo (who's great) on green space, mental health and urban gardens/ag - Research Associate at University of Kent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV078/r...
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Research Associate at University of Kent
An academic position as a Research Associate is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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𝔖𝔦𝔪𝔬𝔫 ℜ @sjramsden.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Restoration of Coventry's listed summer houses nears completion
The buildings at Stoney Road Allotments in Cheylesmore date back to the 19th Century.
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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Learn more about Octavia Hill and her work on 5 March in our Online Winter Lecture series. Professor William Whyte's lecture is titled ‘Hang drawing!! I must go and help people’: Octavia Hill, John Ruskin, and Victorian Society. Read more and book: bit.ly/4gL9iuk #heritage
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 09/02/2025
Excited to be kicking off the Gardens Trust's Places to Play series on 12th February, doing a skip through the history of children's outdoor play. Tickets are a snip at £8 - do join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/places-to-...
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Places to Play
A new series exploring organised recreation in designed landscapes, Weds @ 6pm from 12 Feb, all 5 for £35 (GT members £26.25)
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 26/01/2025
Here's #ElderPark in #Glasgow, as part of my occasional series of people enjoying historic parks and gardens. Thousands of locals celebrated in the streets when it opened in 1885. I love the small girl at the back, standing firmly in the pond! friendsofelderpark.wordpress.com/about-elder-...
An old black and white photograph labelled Elder Park, Gowan. Children are arranged round an artificial lake - a boy holds onto a toy boat in the water, and a girl looks down at her doll. In the background, a small girl stands in the lake, and further away people walk around it.
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Drew Bennellick @drewbennellick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Heritage Fund Scotland is looking for a new Chair who will also be a trustee of the UK Board. Critical role for nature and cultural heritage investment in Scotland apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8102
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Appointment details – National Lottery Heritage Fund, 1 Scottish Trustee – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK GOV.UK
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HahaHopscotch @hahahopscotch.co.uk · 17/01/2025
Two weeks into 2025 and we're keeping to our January #resolution to maintain strong glutes in preparation for the #gardengames skipping season. How are you getting on? 😇👊🌳🌻 #northlondon
Two girls in floral dresses swinging a skipping rope for smaller children who are jumping over it, on a garden lawn with autumnal trees in the background.A historic postcard with a coloured drawing of  girls in beautiful dresses swinging a skipping rope in front of a garden sundial.Lady in striped dress smiles whilst jumping in the air over a skipping rope on a garden lawn.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 17/01/2025
Polishing up my Giggles in the Garden talk ready for the Gardens Trust Zoom event on 12th Feb. It'll be almost as fun as a homemade seesaw on a sunny day - do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/places-to-...
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 17/01/2025
Beautiful freezing foggy day yesterday at The Walks in #KingsLynn, #Norfolk. This 18th century public promenade space is still used and loved every day by the local community as a #publicpark for fresh air, exercise and coming together. www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/info/20067/p...
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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
@radicalteacher.bsky.social @pester.bsky.social and anyone who wants to work with print and play boardgame prototypes for history classes 🗃️: Here's my prototype page. #3, Rhetoric and Revolution, the French Rev game I mentioned, is up on this page. gamingthepast.net/tabletop/jer...
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Jeremiah’s History Game Prototypes
I’m going to start collecting my prototype files here for interested people to see. Some are useful in class already, others not yet, etc. Please, please, please give me constructive feedback…
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
■ The Bülbül (Nightingale) Mansion in the Tavuk (Chicken) Forest in Edirne, 19th Century #history
A small mansion in the forest.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We're offering a PhD place on Rewilding! This PhD will study the wilder grazing at Purbeck Heaths ‘Super National Nature Reserve’, which is shifting towards the restoration of natural processes to create a more dynamic, complex landscape www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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HahaHopscotch @hahahopscotch.co.uk · 04/01/2025
Banish the January blues! Here are the top 4 #traditionalgames we’re looking forward to later this year: 1. Egg & Spoon at Easter picnics 2. Sack Races at Sports Days 3. Skittles at Summer Garden Parties 4. Hoop rolling at Festivals See you there - book via hahahopscotch.co.uk ! 🤩🥳👌🌼🌳
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
■ People Drinking Coffee and Chatting in a Coffee House by the River in Damascus (Syria), 1899 #history #damascus #syria
People Drinking Coffee and Chatting at Wooden Tables Among the Trees by the River.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 03/01/2025
Finally got to visit Stoke Park, around the yellow fairytale building on the hill overlooking the M32 in #Bristol. Boy, what a fantastic community resource www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/mu...
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 02/01/2025
Don't forget to apply to be the new Chair of Trustees at the Gardens Trust... I'm very much looking forward to working with you!
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Gardens, Heritage & Planning @gardenheritage.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Historic England has announced the number of designations made in 2024 (bit.ly/3P1HgPy), including *11* newly-registered parks and gardens (compared to just 5 in 2023). 🥳 In addition, 2 existing Register entries have been amended.
An image summarising the new designations in 2024, which reads ‘Additions to the List in 2024: 
Listing: 211
Scheduled Monuments: 34
Parks and Gardens: 11
Total: 256’
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 16/12/2024
Glorious Christmassy visit to Tyntesfield near Bristol. Apparently there were 2999 other visitors too - fabulous to see a historic garden so loved
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Historic Environment Forum (HEF) @histenvforum.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has been published, setting out the UK Government's planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied: www.gov.uk/government/p... #PlanningReform #NPPF
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National Planning Policy Framework
The revised National Planning Policy Framework sets out government's planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 11/12/2024
Following up on my good intention to share my postcards of people in historic parks and gardens, here is one of my faves. I'm a sucker for urban urchins, so here they are in the early 20th century fishing for 'tiddlers' in Kensington Gardens
Early 20th century postcard of urban children fishing in the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens. Some are looking straight at the camera and others are completely absorbed peering into the water
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/12/2024
England’s new towns must be walkable and green, say campaigners
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England’s new towns must be walkable and green, say campaigners
Thinktank founder says recent attempts to build new towns are ‘depressing, unsustainable and stupid’ Labour should build 12 new towns in England that are not car-dependent or built on flood plains, a former government adviser has said in a report. A…
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𝔖𝔦𝔪𝔬𝔫 ℜ @sjramsden.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Interested in the historic environment? Interested in planning? Then, Historic England's Planning Bulletin might just scratch your itch. November edition is out now. historicengland.org.uk/advice/plann...
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Historic England Planning Bulletin | Historic England
Our monthly ‘Planning Bulletin’ highlights some of the recent and forthcoming developments in the world of planning from a heritage perspective.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 28/11/2024
The Gardens Trust is looking for a new Chair of Trustees. Could it be you? I hope so! Come and work with me at this super charity - small, ambitious, and on a mission for historic parks and gardens. Deadline 6th Jan 2025 - do let me know if you'd like to chat. thegardenstrust.org/could-you-be...
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Could you be the next Chair of the Gardens Trust? - The Gardens Trust
We're looking to appoint a new Chair of Trustees to lead the Board, and provide effective governance during a period of exciting change and development.
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.
Old ruin viewed through a glass frame with the original outlines of the building etched onto the glass
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Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Job alert! Our members Wentworth Woodhouse are looking to recruit a Digital Lead. If you have a proven track-record of strategy development and in the creation of digital content, they'd love to hear from you. Find out more: heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/ #HeritageJobs #DigitalJobs
A photograph of a filming set up in a stone building.  It includes a sound or lighting desk, two laptops, large lighting set up and presenters.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 27/11/2024
Good news!
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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Small grants for local history.🥳
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Advolly Richmond FLS @advollyr.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A Short History of Flowers: The stories that make our gardens.💐 With beautiful botanical illustrations by Sarah Jane Humphrey which brought my words to life🤗 Now available in all good bookshops near and far. #history #flowers #gardens #people #stories
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Any budding ‘Woodland History Detectives’ on here might like this online talk I’m giving for the fab D&G Woodlands organisation on Tues 26th Nov. More info and booking link below (free event) 🌳💚 fienta.com/woodland-his...
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Woodland History Detectives
Tue 26. November at 19:30 - 21:00 GMT
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Make Space for Girls @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We often highlight how swings mean a lot to teenage girls, and are a hit with most people of all ages and backgrounds. But they are mainly only located in playground areas assigned to smaller children. It’d be great to have more swings that encourage people to get outside, socialise and have fun.
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Gardens, Heritage & Planning @gardenheritage.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This week’s blog post (bit.ly/3OmoUIG) looks at the wonder of ha-has, including their origins, purpose, form, variety, and maintenance. With bonus reference to rhinos.
A curved ha-ha under a large tree.
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 21/11/2024
Super-interesting and open-minded article on the future of the country house, although I would have liked to see more on country house landscapes other than as setting for the building.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
More than 7,000 people have signed a petition to protect the park after Middlesbrough Council announced its draft local plan, which could see the steel sculptures removed. ✍🏼 www.change.org/p/preserve-t...
Image credit: Bunk3r (Flickr)
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 20/11/2024
Fantastic couple of days at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Its iconic Foster +Partners glasshouse is a 21st century jewel, whilst the 18th century Middleton Hall landscape was simply magical in the winter light. #Wales #NationalBotanicGardenofWales
Arching glasshouse roof with striking curved metal beams stretches over South African plantsLeafless winter trees reflected in a crystal clear lake under blue skies Bronze beech leaves carpet the ground under a mature tree in front of a clear lakeThe iconic glasshouse dome in the distance between autumnal ornamental grasses
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
UPDATE: Disappointing news that C20’s application to list three site-specific dinosaur play sculptures at Teessaurus Park in Middlesbrough, has been rejected by Historic England. Designed by Geneviève Glatt in 1977-79, they represent a rare major 20th.C public-art commission for a female artist.
Teessaurus Park, Middlesbrough
Image credit: Ashley Cooper picsTeessaurus Park, Middlesbrough
Image credit: Ashley Cooper picsImage from the John Buchan photo collection (Ref: ACC- 7224), courtesy of Teesside Archives
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Drew Bennellick @drewbennellick.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The 650 year-old Hundred Guinea Oak at NT The Vyne in Hampshire. Saved from being made into ships for the Battle of Trafalgar by owner William John Chute. #NationalTrust
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Linden Groves @lindengroves.co.uk · 18/11/2024
Thought I might share my postcard collection of people in historic parks and gardens, if there's interest...? This is of children examining the fountain at #LeazesPark, #Newcastle, opened 1873. I think the tiny signs are Keep off the Grass, and love the eagle-eyed bird keeping watch! #parks
A colourful archive postcard of children peering into a fountain in a park with lawns and wide straight paths.
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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
The Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) is a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. We are always looking for disabled (and non-disabled) volunteers to help write. Please get in touch to join us in the DARK.
The Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) is a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. We are always looking for disabled (and non-disabled) volunteers to help write, edit and share their perspectives. Please get in touch to join us in the DARK.
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