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... DID YOU KNOW? ® Huntingdon boasts an excellent National Hunt racecourse ©® The Octavia Hill museum at Wisbech is the birthplace of the co-founder of the National Trust ...
... administrator and postal reformer; 1820 Thomas Beecham, inventor of Beecham's pills; 1838 Octavia Hill, philanthropist; 1850 George Manson, painter; 1857 Joseph Conrad, writer; 1883 Anton von Webern, composer; 1908 Victor Pasmore, artist; 1914 Irving ...
... the extraordinary influence of the National Trust as an agricultural landlord, and considers its future challenges HEN Octavia Hill and her enterprising companions laid the strong foundations of the National Trust by the Soil Association. It is a very ...
... Thompson, of the National Trust, gave a brief resumé of the origins of the National Trust, which was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill in order to promote the preservation of historic buildings and lands. The first property to be owned by the Trust was in ...
... eftra. . the Army Cadets Force helping with National Trust projects pays tribute to the founder of both organisations — Octavia Hill. On last year’s camp Northumbria cadets cleared old deer fencing at Studley Royal in Yorkshire and the major community ...
... of climate change; w hich will have a huge impact on its properties. This is a subject that would never have occurred to Octavia Hill and her founding partners, but whicli•will guide much of the Trust's agricultural policy in the future. ~ 'Such personal ...
... lecture about the trust. He started by showing photographs of the three people who founded the National Trust in 1895, Octavia Hill, Canon Hardwicke Rawneley and Sir Robert Hunter. With the aid of slides the speaker gave a narration of the beautiful locations ...
... Cadets on target to help Trust THE founder of the National Trust and the Army Cadet Force, Octavia Hill, would have been proud of Northumbria’s Army Cadets had she seen them doing their bit for the Trust during their annual camp at Proteus near Ollerton ...
... spinningmule which revolutionised cotton industry; 1795 Sir Rowland Hill, inventor, administrator and postal reformer; 1820 Thomas Beecham, inventor of Beecham’s pills; 1838 Octavia Hill, philanthropist; 1850 George Manson, painter, 1857 Joseph Conrad, ...
... ideas pretty startling to many of those wedded to the traditional view of private land ownership, but the trio themselves- Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon H . D. Rawnsley-were out of the ordinary mould. They set up the first nationwide conservation ...
... 41. pbk £5.00 Institute for the Study of Civil Society (5.2000) 1 903386 86 1 Hill, Octavia. Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate: Essays and Letters by Octavia Hill. 21cm.viii, 136 p. n.e. Rediscovered ...
... lives, and beauty is vulnerable to short-term commercial pressures. You can see that this was important to our founders-Octavia Hill talked about certain landscapes as open-air sitting rooms for the poor. This lies at the core of everything we do, even ...