Lost gardens of London exhibition now on.

[Serial_Apologist]

Located in St Mary's Church, right next to the entrance to Lambeth Palace - adjacent to the roundabout just east of Lambeth Bridge. Right up my street!

(Well, not literally, to be precise!)

http://gardenmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/lostgardensoflondon/

I have to confess to not having known anything about this museum!

[french frank]

Similar idea to the one behind the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall:

https://www.heligan.com/explore-heligan/gardens/pleasure-grounds/

[Sir Velo]

With over 350,000 visitors annually, I very much doubt an afternoon there can be described as tranquil, or that they continue to qualify as "lost" in any meaningful sense. A clever (cynical?) marketing wheeze at the time, but one which has surely had its day.

[Hitch]

If anyone here should visit this exhibition, don't forget to look at the graveyard. Entombed there is one Captain Bligh, he of The Bounty, with a stone breadfruit atop the grave.

[gradus]

Located in St Mary's Church, right next to the entrance to Lambeth Palace - adjacent to the roundabout just east of Lambeth Bridge. Right up my street!

(Well, not literally, to be precise!)

http://gardenmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/lostgardensoflondon/

I have to confess to not having known anything about this museum!

Thanks for the heads-up, just the sort of thing that interests me.

[french frank]

With over 350,000 visitors annually, I very much doubt an afternoon there can be described as tranquil, or that they continue to qualify as "lost" in any meaningful sense. A clever (cynical?) marketing wheeze at the time, but one which has surely had its day.

There are 200 acres so 350,000 annual visitors don't have much of an impact over a few hours stroll (or didn't when I visited). They were 'lost' in that they were abandoned for 70-odd years in the last century and so 'lost' to history and still much of it is still fairly wild. It's a good partner to the Eden Project which isn't that far away.

[Serial_Apologist]

There are 200 acres so 350,000 annual visitors don't have much of an impact over a few hours stroll (or didn't when I visited). They were 'lost' in that they were abandoned for 70-odd years in the last century and so 'lost' to history and still much of it is still fairly wild. It's a good partner to the Eden Project which isn't that far away.

Whereas the London gardens in this exhibition were unquestionably lost to urban and suburban sprawl.