Date:1810 - 1835 (c.)
Description:Staffordshire figure depicting a woman with a watering can. During the early 19th century, gardening was a popular pastime, influenced by the fashionable Pleasure Gardens, public parks and the establishment of nurseries. The demand for professional landscape gardeners increased and hundreds of books on gardening were published. The interest in gardening spanned the class system, with wealthy landowners planting trees on their estates to show their wealth at one end and urban workers leasing small allotments at the other.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
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Image courtesy of: Mrs E. Shorter
Donor ref:NM.2015.791.23 (22/38126)
Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
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