Allan R Ruff (43 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Manchester's Philips Park was the world's first designed public park in an industrial city, but it is more than the celebration of a single park. Unlike many historic private gardens that have been fully documented, the history of the 'peoples' park' has been largely overlooked. The history of Philips Park serves to illustrate the story of all Victorian parks. It shows why they are important living documents of social history that reflect political and public attitudes, as well as changing recreational demands.A unique collection of documentary sources have been used to show how the fortunes of the park have ebbed and flowed through time. At the height of its popularity in the 1860s, Philips Park was the recreation centre of its day; 20,000 people would visit on Tulip Sunday. The decline of parks coincided with changes in recreation, with the arrival of cinema, radio, public transport and later on private cars and television. In Philips Park, facilities and features were removed and others left to become derelict. Early this century a campaign led by the Victorian Society (the Garden History Society and the Landscape Institute) brought a brief renaissance of Victorian parks, supported by Heritage Lottery Funding. Philips Park was restored as part of the programme to make east Manchester 'Sports City'. Today parks are once again in jeopardy due to cutbacks in Local Authority funding. This book provides a timely reminder of their importance as new ways are sought to ensure their future.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Manchesters Philips Park was the worlds first designed public park in an industrial city, but it is more than the celebration of a single park. Unlike many historic private gardens that have been fully documented, the history of the peoples park has been largely overlooked. The history of Philips Park serves to illustrate the story of all Victorian parks. It shows why they are important living documents of social history that reflect political and public attitudes, as well as changing recreational demands.A unique collection of documentary sources have been used to show how the fortunes of the park have ebbed and flowed through time. At the height of its popularity in the 1860s, Philips Park was the recreation centre of its day; 20,000 people would visit on Tulip Sunday. The decline of parks coincided with changes in recreation, with the arrival of cinema, radio, public transport and later on private cars and television. In Philips Park, facilities and features were removed and others left to become derelict. Early this century a campaign led by the Victorian Society (the Garden History Society and the Landscape Institute) brought a brief renaissance of Victorian parks, supported by Heritage Lottery Funding. Philips Park was restored as part of the programme to make east Manchester Sports City. Today parks are once again in jeopardy due to cutbacks in Local Authority funding. This book provides a timely reminder of their importance as new ways are sought to ensure their future. A unique collection of documentary sources have been used to show how the fortunes of Manchester's Philips Park have ebbed and flowed through the time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. A unique collection of documentary sources have been used to show how the fortunes of Manchester's Philips Park have ebbed and flowed through the time. Num Pages: 128 pages, 81. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; AMV; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . …

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Condition: New. A unique collection of documentary sources have been used to show how the fortunes of Manchester's Philips Park have ebbed and flowed through the time. Num Pages: 128 pages, 81. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; AMV; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 20cm), xii, 380pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Light bumping to the upper corners of the boards, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 9781909686465.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 360 pages, b/w and col. illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 255 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1400. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . .

Hardback. Condition: New. In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton's intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence 'Johnnie' Johnston, the creator of two famous gardens, at Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, in England and Serre de la Madone, Menton, on the Côte d'Azur in the south of France. Wharton and Johnston shared not only a love of nature and gardens but also a shared experience of life. Both were private people who had had very similar childhoods, experiencing the loss of their fathers at an early age. Yet there was one aspect of their lives in which they were very different. Wharton, the writer, chose to expose her innermost thoughts and feelings and was continually in the public eye. Johnston, however, wrote nothing about his gardens, hardly permitted photographs of himself or his gardens and, though he kept an engagement diary, these, with two exceptions, have not survived. As a result Johnston remains a shadowy figure upon whom light occasionally falls from within the diaries kept by Edith Wharton. Her diaries also provide an illuminating insight into both her gardens at St-Brice, and at Hyères, in the south of France. Wharton was a passionate gardener - an aspect not yet fully explored in previous biographies - early in her life after she had made her first garden at The Mount, at Lenox, Massachusetts in the United States, she claimed she was a better landscape designer than novelist. As fellow gardeners, Edith and Johnnie spent many hours together visiting each other's gardens, staying as house guests, plant-collecting in the Haute Massif and travelling by car to nurseries and gardens throughout England and France.In this major new critical biography Alan Ruff has brought the two together, calling upon his lifetime's knowledge of landscape and garden design to assess the influences and techniques employed in the gardens of these two remarkable people, all set against a long-vanished, high-society background. …