Capability Brown @BrownCapability
Celebrating 300 years of #CapabilityBrown landscapes. The Festival is now over, tweets will continue for a while. Funded by @HeritageFundUK capabilitybrown.org Joined June 2012-
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#CapabilityBrown designs for #Heveningham in wonderful new #LandscaoeandImagination exhibition @ComptonVerney
Back in 1979, The Front Garden showcased three gardeners' extraordinaire - Mrs Barnes who tended a graveyard garden in Castleton, Derbyshire and Mr & Mrs Harrison, torch-bearers to Capability Brown at the majestic Brocklesby Park in North Lincolnshire.
Join us for a guided walk to the Panorama Tower next Thursday 21st March. Meet our volunteer walk leader & set out from the visitor centre at 11am; £7.50 per person (booking essential/normal admission applies). Find out more at nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/worceste… 📷 Katherine Alker
“Your Dryads must go into black gloves, Madam. Their father-in-law Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead! Mr Brown dropped down at his own door yesterday” wrote Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory on 7th February 1783. #OTD #OnThisDay #CapabilityBrown
#CapabilityBrown died 241 years ago #OnThisDay 6th February 1783 #OTD #RIP
#CapabilityBrown died 241 years ago #OnThisDay 6th February 1783 #OTD #RIP
Oh frosty days! It's a time to pull on your woolly hats, breath in the crisp winter air and take in views like these, where the trees stand out against a carpet of frost across the landscape. Probably followed by a hot cuppa in the café. nationaltrust.org.uk/croome 📸NT/ J Hubble
New book by Advolly Richmond: Short History of Flowers: The stories that make our gardens - unraveling the surprising histories of 60 flowers that shape our gardens ... read more 👇 @AdvollyR @Frances_Lincoln @GWandShows #historyofflowers thedirt.news/a-short-histor…
Listen to the beautiful voices of The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir in the historic setting of our Capability Chapel before enjoying a festive drink and sweet treat and exploring our art galleries and exhibition. Book now for 16 December: ow.ly/3av050Qbusp
It's #NationalTreeWeek and this is Croome's oldest tree at around 700 years old. We've carried out work to preserve and protect this English oak, including propping a major limb to ensure it stays attached and surrounding it with a hand crafted fence. 📸 NT/Hugh Warwick
A surprise calf has been born at Croome. Named 'Capability' by Rob, our tenant farmer, after the eighteenth-century landscape designer 'Capability' Brown who created the landscape at Croome today. The calf looks black here but it is brown... 'Capability' Brown. 📽️@RobHavard1
Our @BrownCapability pastoral landscape created between 1769-1777 always has something to offer from so many different angles @RothleyLowLake #Northumberland
...@RothleyLowLake @ClaireBFarms @BrownCapability...just stunning, #Northumberland what a place!? #capabilitybrown #riparian #pastorallandscape #codgerfort #RothleyLowerLake
Hallingbury Place, Essex, demolished 1926, has its c1750s Grade II* Shell House restored, possibly designed by Capability Brown @BrownCapability, two miles away @nationaltrust Hatfield Forest @NTEssex. bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/hatfield-… heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRecor… lostheritage.org.uk/houses/lh_esse…
The aptly named ‘Beauty’ - Petworth Park, England 🌳 Photo: Jeroen Philippona #thicktrunktuesday
The invitations are here! Hope to see you at one or both of these upcoming events @RobilantVoena in Mayfair, London. Please RSVP to maria@RobilantVoena.com if you plan to attend. #creativeAI
#OnThisDay in 1716 Lancelot Capability Brown was baptised in Kirkharle, Northumberland. Brown was a landscape designer who is referred to as the 'Shakespeare of gardening'. We funded the #CapabilityBrown Festival @BrownCapability in 2016.
#CapabilityBrown was baptised #OnThisDay 30th Aug 1716 at St Wilfrid's Church #Kirkharle #Northumberland 307 years ago #OTD @KirkharleCourt
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@BrownCapability Top man. Thank you for Wimbledon Park where I spent most of my life.
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A surprise calf has been born at Croome. Named 'Capability' by Rob, our tenant farmer, after the eighteenth-century landscape designer 'Capability' Brown who created the landscape at Croome today. The calf looks black here but it is brown... 'Capability' Brown. 📽️@RobHavard1
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Hallingbury Place, Essex, demolished 1926, has its c1750s Grade II* Shell House restored, possibly designed by Capability Brown @BrownCapability, two miles away @nationaltrust Hatfield Forest @NTEssex. bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/hatfield-… heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRecor… lostheritage.org.uk/houses/lh_esse…
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The invitations are here! Hope to see you at one or both of these upcoming events @RobilantVoena in Mayfair, London. Please RSVP to maria@RobilantVoena.com if you plan to attend. #creativeAI
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (so named for finding the 'capabilities' in his clients’ estates) was baptised on this day in 1716. He was the most famous landscape designer and architect of the 18th century andCroome was his first large-scale commission. 📸 NT/John Hubble
It’s #CapabilityBrown's birthday & what better way to mark it than with a visit to one of his famous #landscape #gardens at #Stowe and #Petworth? Find out more him & see how many features of his famous landscape designs you can spot on your visit . . . bit.ly/3PrtyXv
#OTD 1716 Lancelot Brown was born. He was known as Englands Greatest gardner & worked on some of the countries finest houses such as Harewood House, Chatsworth House & Audley end @BrownCapability Take a look at the interior of Audley end humphriesweaving.co.uk/?portfolio=aud…
Its @BrownCapability birthday today. So proud to work in a location where his design has influenced the landscape at scale. A place of wonder, reflections, beauty and pioneering exploration. @sheffieldparkNT @nationaltrust @southeastNT #capabilitybrown
Ercilia Pepín 1886–1939 Dominican Republic teacher, equal rights activist from political family, teacher@ 14. Feminist believed education liberated women. 1916 US invaded DR key player in women's resistance movement #JuntaDeDamas using 🇩🇴 as rallying point en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercilia_P…
Lois Suckling 1924 1st woman in NZ registered as optometrist, 5 kids, husband ill with degenerative disease so ran their opticians practice by herself in 1930s. 1936 set up 1st NZ family planning organisation to "mitigate evils of ill-health & poverty" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Lo…
Sophia Steinbrenner née Minch 1854-1933 president of Kinsman Transit Great Lakes shipping fleet. 1905 inherited business from mother. Personally directed movement of vessels. 1913 @ desk for 3 days until all ships accounted 4 in storm which sank 14 vessels en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_St…
Read about @Wikipedia drive to de-orphan pages, found lists & clicked on women's names. Went down fascinating historical rabbit holes, connected them to other pgs & did some research to improve them. A short 🧵on💃from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, NZ 🇳🇿 & 🇺🇸 @WikiWomenInRed
Quintessentially "Capability Brown", the conceal & reveal features are all around our garden. @VisitDorset @rhshome @sherbornecastle @Abbey_104 @The_RHS @Historic_Houses @VisitSherborne @allthingsdorset @DorsetMag @DorsetTourism @goDorset @DorsetLifeMag @BrownCapability
Wheelbarrow family business in #Isleworth: James Woods d 1757, son Stephen d 1766 leaving his skilled widow Sarah to continue making barrows for @SyonParkGardens - 22 in 1767-8! She married 2nd husband Jeremiah Lockyer, probably a wheeler, in July 1769. Such a good image!
In the 1760s Mrs Wood the Wheeler built wheelbarrows for #CapabilityBrown's workers @SyonParkGardens #London during his landscape building work there. #C18th Early #WomenInEngineering #WomenEngineers #INWED23 #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
Looking forward to speaking about #CapabilityBrown’s #Lincolnshire connections in Folkingham tomorrow!
Folkingham Georgian Festival! The festival is now scheduled for Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st May 2023. ! For more information about the exciting FREE entertainment they have planned visit the May 2023 Georgian Festival Page. theavelandhistorygroup.com #Ge…
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