Lost gardens of London exhibition now on.

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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37537

    Lost gardens of London exhibition now on.

    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!)



    I have to confess to not having known anything about this museum!
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30169

    #2
    Similar idea to the one behind the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall:

    Enjoy tranquil surroundings and escape to the serene beauty of the pleasure grounds at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. Stroll through pristine gardens.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Sir Velo
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      • Oct 2012
      • 3225

      #3
      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.

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      • Hitch
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        • Nov 2010
        • 366

        #4
        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.

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        • gradus
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5599

          #5
          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
          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!)



          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.

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30169

            #6
            Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
            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.
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37537

              #7
              Originally posted by french frank View Post

              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.

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