At the end of my book, you will find a Gazetteer of corporate gardens and recreation grounds, from the early Industrial Revolution to the present, which I discovered in the course of my research. Here, I give links to further examples I have found on the web, or found by friends and colleagues. If you know of any more, or can fill in any details, please get in touch. These will become the basis for my next book.

The Burroughs Wellcome factory, Dartford, Kent, UK

I mention this one in the book, but now I have an image (author’s collection). See here for more details.

New Zealand – the Edmond’s baking powder factory in Christchurch

Here is my first example from New Zealand – the Edmond’s baking powder factory in Christchurch. The gardens were originally laid out in 1923, and despite the demolition of the factory in 1990, much of the garden still survives, cared for by the city council. See here for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angli Shirt Factory in Birk, Denmark

See here and here for more details. Dr. Ian Thompson, Reader in Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University told me about this one. The shirt manufacturer Aage Damgaard, built it. It’s from 1965 and the architect was C.F. Moller, the landscape architect C. Th Sorensen. The plan of the 1960s factory is based on a shirt collar! See Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe’s ‘The Landscape of Man’ p362. The factory closed in the mid 1970s and Damgaard opened it as the Herning Museum of Art. Steven Holl Architects, New York, associate architect Kjaer & Richter and landscape architect Schønherr Landskab have recently enlarged the site.