We enjoyed lunch and an afternoon walk around Winterbourne Gardens. For some reason the gate to the reservoir was closed leaving us slightly dissapointed.
Archive for the tag 'Winterbourne House and Gardens'
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Wherever nature works, there will be beauty
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 28th 2024
Yin and Yang are not in competition or conflict to each other, but are complements of each other. Balance is not a state but a process. The Tao is a process, a dynamic condition of balance.
Ray Grigg
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 6th 2023
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The GKN Collection at Winterbourne House
I found the GKN collection especially interesting due to my dealings with GKN and other related Defence industries during my working life.
Winterbourne has strong links with Guest, Keen & Nettlefold (GKN) through John Sutton Nettlefold, whose grandfather founded Nettlefolds in the 1820s. John himself worked for the family firm at the start of his career, [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Aug 3rd 2023
Winterbourne is a rare surviving example of an early 20th century suburban villa and garden. The house was built in 1903 for John and Margaret Nettlefold, of Guest, Keen & Nettlefold.
Nettlefold was a pioneer of town planning who carried the ideas seen in his own home to the less wealthy areas of the city.
Originally designed [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2023
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The rain cools the air, calms the soul and replenishes life
Mike Dolan
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 30th 2023
