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The flower shows of Bloomsbury
Visit the window-gardens of nineteenth century Herbrand Street to explore why an experimental flower show in 1860 was thought to be a solution for the poor living conditions of the working-class parishioners of St George’s, Bloomsbury.
Peaches and bulbs at Ham Farm
Discover the fields and glasshouses of the Walker farm at Ham in Richmond, a farm which exported its quality flower bulbs to Holland in the 1890s…
John Groom’s Flower Girls’ Mission
Discover the alley which housed the clubroom of the John Groom Watercress and Flower Girls’ Christian Mission from 1866, where flower women could go for an early morning breakfast-and-bible-lesson after buying their flowers at the market.
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Chawton House and Jane Austen
Two houses in Chawton now famous for their links to Jane Austen and her family