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A rare orchid, closely related to those that informed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, has been restored to the scientist’s former garden at Down House in Kent by English Heritage. Following two years of careful conservation and management by the charity’s gardeners and volunteers, Down House’s violet helleborine orchid population has doubled in number and is currently enjoying its best flowering season in living memory.
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History of JW Evans Silver Factory
The old workshops of the JW Evans Silver Factory, in the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, are still crammed with tools and equipment as if the workers might return at any moment. But the skills of the specialist craftsmen who worked there throughout the 20th century are now almost a forgotten memory.
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In search of Queen Victoria’s favourite flower
Queen Victoria mentions violets over 100 times in her journals. Head Gardener Toby Beasley researched this love and varieties to see this season at Osborne.
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Secrets of Richborough Roman amphitheatre revealed during excavation
A cavity in the arena wall at Richborough Roman amphitheatre in Kent, has been revealed to be a carcer, or cell for holding people and animals, English Heritage has revealed today (28 October).
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18th Century Anti-Slavery Campaigner awarded English Heritage blue plaque
The anti-slavery campaigner Ottobah Cugoano has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque marks Schomberg House at 80–82 Pall Mall, where Cugoano, a former slave himself, was employed as a servant by artists Richard and Maria Cosway. It was while living here in the 1780s that Cugoano wrote the book, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, one of the first black-authored anti-slavery books to be published in Britain, and – of its era – the most radical in its arguments.
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FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)
Blue plaque commemorating RA Fisher at Inverforth House, North End Way, Hampstead, London NW3 7EU.