Comments on: York’s early nurserymen /1 http://yorkstories.co.uk A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Dr Frank Horsman FLS http://yorkstories.co.uk/histories/york-early-nurserymen-telford-backhouse-1/#comment-689137 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:33:19 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/ten/?page_id=1468#comment-689137 I want to know more about Richard Potter who was employed by the Backhouse nursery certainly in 1872 and probably earlier.
Can you help with some references etc., please?

]]> By: Donna http://yorkstories.co.uk/histories/york-early-nurserymen-telford-backhouse-1/#comment-684611 Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:26:00 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/ten/?page_id=1468#comment-684611 Hi your work on this subject is very thorough and I was wondering if you could help by pointing me in the right direction regrading finding a written source that describes the landscaping or topography of the Backhouse nursery? I am involved with writing up a report on recent excavations at this site and I am trying to build up a picture of what it looked like prior to the 19th century railway leveling. I was wondering if it was undulating land similar to the Museum gardens? Henry Baines, who designed the gardens previously worked at Backhouse and I wonder if during this time he took ideas from Backhouse or indeed plants? The long established garden history of the site from the Friars to the Telfords must have ensured that Backhouse was rather beautiful with mature planting and landscaping? Quite an amount of land was leveled in some areas to create the space for the railway and the construction of the retaining walls either side of the land appear to attest to this. Surely this would have caused quite a stir given the long established nature of the site? I am struggling to find any source that discusses these changes or describes the land from Toft green down towards the city walls prior to the railway construction- so if you had any idea of where I could find such information I would be most grateful. Kind regards Donna LS Archaeology.

]]> By: Plant of the Month: December 2018 | Professor Hedgehog's Journal http://yorkstories.co.uk/histories/york-early-nurserymen-telford-backhouse-1/#comment-677040 Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:52:19 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/ten/?page_id=1468#comment-677040 […] 1815, James [iii] and his brother Thomas bought the Telford nursery in York, and in 1822 he married. But he seems to have felt the call to missionary work, and the exercise of […]

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