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Numbers 1 - 50 of the pictures in our archive - in numerical order (That is, the order in which they were scanned)

PGPT001

Auction photo 1897. Copy by S. Cocke 1998

PGPT002

View from terrace includes palm house and Plantation House

PGPT003

1890s Detail from John Garia photo

The palm house was erected in 1871

Click on this pic to download the full file (765K)

PGPT004

Group of Baptist ladies organising fête in PG in 1920s

Lady in white and black hat in centre of 2nd row is minister's wife.
Young man in front row in pale trousers almost in front of her became minister later.
Copy of photo produced (by child of one of colleagues at fête) at talk in May/June 2006

PGPT005

View of fountain probably taken from the rustic bridge.
Picture from Nursing Home brochure (?) 1930s(?)

PGPT006

Palm house has gone. Planting in it's place. Medieval wall almost covered in ivy.
Picture from Nursing Home brochure (?) 1930s(?)

PGPT007

John Joseph Gray Page (left)

Poster for flower service. Sermon by Rev. J Mellor Evans

1886

   PGPT008,009
PGPT010

The Elms, Heigham Grove

1897 photo for auction

 
PGPT011

"Old work recently renewed by Gunton Bros for Lord Stafford

PGPT012

 

Rustic bridges

Boulton & Paul samples no. 132 and 133

Better image at no.64  (overwrite?)

PGPT013

Tennis on the lawn

PGPT014

Gardener with ceramic fountain
1940/1950

Cathedral in background

  PGPT015

The Palm House with the cathedral in the background.  The garden was created before the cathedral was built

PGPT016

1930 View from terrace.

Steps visible just beyond fountain. Tennis court markings

PGPT017

1913 Fountain in full flow

PGPT018

Scaffolding on cathedral

PGPT019

View from the terrace in 1897.  Palm House. Elaborate borders

Same picture was produced showing the address as 'The Plantation', St. Giles Road, Norwich

PGPT020

1897

Close up from pic no 19

PGPT021

Close up from pic no. 19

PGPT022

Tennis

PGPT023
      PGPT024, 025, 026
PGPT027
PGPT028
   PGPT029, 030
PGPT031

Duplicate of 016

PGPT032
PGPT033
PGPT034

1912

   PGPT035, 036
PGPT037

1989

PGPT038

1985

PGPT039
   PGPT040, 041, 042

 

1989

   PGPT043, 044

Limewashing the terracotta.

Chris Watson ,right

PGPT045

1960

Aerial view some time during the sixties.

The Palm House area and half the lawn has already been abandoned and the fountain basin is empty

   PGPT046

Ceramic fountain and conservatory at the Plantation House

Germaine and Nina Drake, right

PGPT048

Garden of the Beeches (Now the hotel car park)

PGPT049

Check end saddle boiler (left) of the type believed to have been purchased by Henry Trevor in August 1880 from Boulton & Paul. Boulton & Paul archive ref: NN105

PGPT050

 

 

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