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    Part 4: References and Sources

    Part 4: References and Sources

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    References

    1) Bullion, A.L., ‘Hestercombe House Gardens' (unpublished article, 31 January 1968).

    2) Jekyll, Gertrude, Wood and Garden (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1914), p.205.

    Sources

    Particular thanks to Madeleine Pickthorne for access to her papers, plans and photograph collection; for tracing and supplying interview contacts; for additional reporting; and for her many helpful comments.

    Baldwin, Harry, Personal interview, 29 July 2008.

    Bisgrove, Richard, The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll (Frances Lincoln, 1992).

    Bullion, A.L., ‘Hestercombe House Gardens' (unpublished article, 31 January 1968).

    Brown, Jane, Gardens of A Golden Afternoon (Allen Lane, 1982).

    Brown, Jane, Lutyens (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981). Catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London 18 November 1981 to 31 January 1982.

    Ford, John. Personal interview, 6 August 2008.

    Fricker, Laurence. Personal interview, 14 May 2008.

    Fricker, L.J., ‘Gardens at Hestercombe House, Somerset' in Journal of the Institute of Landscape Architects 61 (1963) 8-11.

    Hitchcock, Ray. Personal interview, 29 July 2008.

    Hitchmough, Wendy, Arts and Crafts Gardens (Pavilion, 1997).

    Jekyll, Gertrude, Wood and Garden (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1914).

    Johnson, Leslie E. Personal interview, 30 July 2008 .

    Massingham, Betty, ‘New Life for a Classical Garden', Country Life, 23 September 1976, 822-826.

    McLoughlin, Jane, ‘A Garden of Discovery', Daily Telegraph, 25 October 1975.

    McRobie, Lorna. Personal interview 24 April 2008.

    Mount, William E. Personal interview, 27 February 2008.

    Mount, William E., ‘Hestercombe Renascent' in Gertrude Jekyll: artist, gardener, craftswoman, ed. by Michael J. Tooley (Witton-le-Wear: Michaelmas Books, 1984) pp.89-106.

    Owen, Jane, 'Defining moment' in Gardens Illustrated, August 2006, p.77-83.

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    Pickthorne, Madeleine. Personal interviews: 30 April, 15 May, 5 June, 9 July, 10 September, 17 September and 22 October 2008.

    Pickthorne, Madeleine. Letters to the author: 12 May, 28 May, 30 May, 14 July, 15 July, 17 July, 1 September, 19 September, 22 September and 16 October 2008.

    Prudden, Hugh, The Stones of Hestercombe, (Taunton: Hestercombe Gardens Trust, 2007).

    Richens, Mervyn, conservator, Somerset Record Office. Personal interview, 5 June 2008.

    Royal Horticultural Society, Dictionary of Gardening, ed. by Fred J. Chittenden (Oxford University Press, 1965).

    Somerset County Gazette, ‘New garden from plans of old...', 4 July 1975.

    Somerset College of Art, Hestercombe House A Study of the Garden, 1973.

    Somerset Fire Brigade leaflet, Hestercombe House The Garden Restoration, June 1975.

    Somerset Fire Brigade leaflet, Hestercombe House & Garden (undated, approximately 1979).

    Somerset Record Office, newspaper cuttings relating to the gardens at Hestercombe, 1970s-1980s. A\CVZ/1/2.

    Somerset Record Office, Planting plans for the formal gardens at Hestercombe House drawn by Gertrude Jekyll 1904-07. C/FB/18.

    Somerset Record Office, reports of the Somerset Fire Brigade, 1954-74. C/FB/15.

    Somerset Record Office, reports of the Fire and Civil Protection Committee, C/FB/16.

    Somerset Record Office, report on ‘Hestercombe House garden restoration scheme carried out by Somerset County Council under the direction of the Chief Fire Officer and the County Architect', 1975. C/FB/30.

    Taylor, Patrick 'Hestercombe' in The Oxford Companion to Gardens. Ed. Patrick Taylor. Oxford University Press 2006. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of York. 10 November 2008.

    Thomas, Graham Stuart, Perennial Garden Plants (London & Melbourne: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1976).