Date:1924
Description:The northern compartment and Head Gardener's House pictured during the time Cecil George Baker was tenant , 1932-1939. The earliest plans for a walled kitchen garden at Shugborough date from 1800. By 1805 William Pitt described the gardens as 'well stored with the choicest of fruit trees...and many other varieties of hot-house fruits, flowers and plants'. A gardener's house was added and the walled garden was surrounded by a Ha-Ha, within which trees were planted.
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George Miller, Head Gardener at Shugborough 1918 to 1921, and his family in front ...
George Miller (1883-1965), Head Gardener at Shugborough, 1918 to 1921. This portrait ...
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The earliest plans for a walled kitchen garden at Shugborough date from 1800. By 1805 William Pitt ...
The northern compartment and Head Gardener's House pictured during the time Cecil George Baker was ...
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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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