Peters took out a lease on the derelict wharf and a house on Ballast Quay in 1963. Here she created a communal riverside garden from which grew a landscape business, Union Wharf Nursery Garden. Projects included: gardens at St. Katherine's Wharf and the founding of the Surrey Docks Farm, about which she wrote a book: Docklandscape, 1979.
Information from our Picture source: Ballast Quay and London Gardens Trust.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Hilary Peters
The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our...
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It facilitated the creation of new public open spaces. First chairman was the Earl of Meath. In about 1890 the MPGA was based a...
Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture, Philanthropy
Garden and cemetery designer, city planner. Born Scotland as John Claudius Loudon. Studied biology, botany and agriculture. Came to London in 1803. His many publications include: Observations on La...
The "Bachelor Duke" after whom the Cavendish banana was named. Born Paris, son of the 5th Duke, who died in 1811. Had a strong interest in gardening and agriculture and gave his estates a lot of a...
Located in the grounds of St Mary's Church, South Woodford. We have been unable to discover its age.
Initiated the Evening Standard's appeal to replace London's lost trees. For 42 years McGill was a columnist with the Evening Standard and was co-creator, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, of th...
Philanthropist. Born in Crown Street, now Sun Street, EC2. Brought up in Mile End. Followed his father and brothers into the stationery and printing business. 1963 founded, and chaired, the philan...
Four stone bridges have spanned the Thames at this point. The first was built in about 1210 and lasted right through the medieval period. This was the one that had the spikes and is shown in some d...
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