• Daffodils on the Arboretum Lawn, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, The Week That Was, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House and Garden
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    The Week That Was: 18th – 22nd March

    Go behind the scenes, meet the team and get some great tips for your own garden at home. Join us as we look back at the week that was… Monday 18th The week began with a daunting task as a huge pile of compost was moved from our service area to the new Arboretum Lawn

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  • S.S. Servia ©New York Port, Ship Images, 1851-1891 via ancestry.co.uk, News from the Archives, Digging for Dirt, Winterbourne House and Garden
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    News from the Archives: John Nettlefold in New York

    Winterbourne was built in 1904 for John and Margaret Nettlefold and bequeathed to the University of Birmingham 40 years later by John Macdonald Nicolson. Follow our dedicated team of archivists as they explore Winterbourne’s past and share with you the special objects, photographs and documents contained within the Winterbourne Archives. John Sutton Nettlefold’s visit to

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  • Ken Nettlefold, News From the Archives: Ken Nettlefold and the First World War, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    News From the Archives: Ken Nettlefold and the First World War

    Winterbourne was built in 1904 for John and Margaret Nettlefold and bequeathed to the University of Birmingham 40 years later by John Macdonald Nicolson. Follow our dedicated team of archivists as they explore Winterbourne’s past and share with you the special objects, photographs and documents contained within the Winterbourne Archives. Ken Nettlefold, the only surviving

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  • Nettlefolds Ltd Head Office, Broad Street, Birmingham, The Archivist, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    News From the Archives: Nettlefold Strike!

    Winterbourne was built in 1904 for John and Margaret Nettlefold and bequeathed to the University of Birmingham 40 years later by John Macdonald Nicolson. Follow our dedicated team of archivists as they explore Winterbourne’s past and share with you the special objects, photographs and documents contained within the Winterbourne Archives. In the History Room at

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  • Walled Garden, 6th July 1983, Now and Then June, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: June

    When Margaret Nettlefold planned the garden at Winterbourne, daughter Valerie revealed that her mother ‘lived with gardening books for a year or so’. Here, the influence of Gertrude Jekyll is inescapable. Winterbourne is filled with Jekyllian detail inspired by her 1899 classic Wood and Garden. Each month, we follow in Margaret’s footsteps to see how the

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