A document is based on Sybil Spencer’s notes for a talk “The story of York Gate Oct. 1970”.
Appropriately dated pictures from this archive have been added to give an impression of what her talk might have been like.
Early picture of Sybil looking at a peat garden, at the end of the Old Orchard, in front of the small white gate with the duck run beyond. Slide numbered 86
Sybil on hands and knees, beside a wooden trug, on the grass in the area later to become the Paved Garden. Old greenhouse with a flower border in front behind the grass. Slide numbered 43