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View from the Orchard wall over the Front Garden with York Gate House behind

The Pavement Maze with York Gate House behind

Sybil’s Garden, a view over a border towards a yew hedge and York Gate House

View from The Old Orchard towards York Gate House

Front Garden, corner of rockery in foreground, house with front door open behind

Pine Pavement and espalier cedar in foreground with house and garden beyond

View towards York Gate House from the Pinetum, clipped hollies in the foreground, Yew Sails and house behind

Recording and transcript of an interview with Tim Parker who lived in York Gate House as a student in 2004

Recording and transcript of an interview with Richard Staples, gardener at York Gate; lived in York Gate house; helped to renovate the house and garden

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.