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Pencil Sketch for bench with handles at each side and with wicker arched cover (as in the kitchen garden), A3

Pencil Sketch for bench with handles at each side and with wicker arched cover (as in kitchen garden), A3

The design, by Fred Spencer, for the stone seat known as "Mother's Tomb", accompanied by a handwritten note 'This is the first garden ornament I designed - I think in the mid 50s. It was the year of the Leeds Music Festival Centenary [1958] as the…

Old Orchard with Pond and Griffin Stone Sink, Mother's Tomb seat and Copper beech hedge. Folly in the background

Chinese Lion by the front door with terracotta pots planted with lilies, daisies and geraniums

Bride and Groom seated under the apple tree in the Old Orchard, York Gate Garden

Sybil standing in the Orchard, a man on either side, and a woman, almost completely obscured, behind her.

Sybil enjoyed showing visitors around the garden in her later years. She also liked to have seats around the garden where she could rest. The…

Dog in Kitchen Garden walking towards the Teak and Cane Seat with Potting Shed to right and open white gate on pillar to left

Cleaning the orchard pond

Young man seated at a table in front of York gate House. Flowering plant in a pot on the table and several containers of plants to the left