8 October 2023
The sculptor Antony Gormley has refused to replace the felled sycamore on Hadrian’s Wall with a work of art. He agrees with Mark Wallinger that trees and sculptures are very different things and given a choice would always…
2 October 2023
“Olives with Sarah” – you are invited to a talk on olive farming in Sicily on Wednesday 4th October in CL253 Clegg Building, Francis Close Hall campus at 1.30pm. There will also be advice on where and how…
29 September 2023
David Trapnell leaves a remarkable legacy, only eight miles west of Cheltenham and of particular interest to landscape architects with ecological and artistic leanings. Nature in Art, the world’s first museum and art gallery dedicated to fine, decorative…
4 July 2023
Paraphrased from the Guardian obituary: in the 1960s Alice Coleman led the work on the Second Land Use Survey of Britain, the first comprehensive attempt since the 30s to record the use of land, using volunteers to map…
1 July 2023
For students interested in plants and planting, historic gardens and traditional techniques, then viewing the television series The Victorian Kitchen and Flower Garden will be very worthwhile, even dating from a number of years ago. It was mainly…
3 May 2023
These photos were taken today at Cam Peak in the southern Cotswolds: a warm, sunny day presenting the wild bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) at their best. The location of the carpark at the foot of this hill is 51.6926,…
27 April 2023
Bob Bray gave this year’s John Simpson memorial lecture last Tuesday. It was delivered at a leisurely but satisfyingly comprehensible tempo, tracing the history of water management from the ‘Great Stink’ lowpoint of 1858, through the Victorian ‘engineered’…
5 April 2023
A public lecture given by Bob Bray (Robert Bray Associates, Bristol Studio) Tuesday 25th April 2023, 18:45 Room TC001 (FCH campus) University of Gloucestershire JOHN SIMPSON 1929-2013 The John Simpson memorial lectures are held in honour of a…
8 March 2023
Last week’s three-day workshop explored the possibilities of rewilding one of Cheltenham’s green corridors – the former elevated Honeybourne railway line, now a cycle and public footpath linking areas to the north of Cheltenham with the current mainline…