Smoke from a pile of cuttings rises into the sky in the garden of Rose Cottage as Macdonald Hastings walks by carrying a ladder

Date:
Late 1950s
Location:
Rose Cottage, Aldworth, Parsonage Green, West Berkshire, RG8 9RL
Reference:
AA089910
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

This photograph was taken during the filming of a garden make-over, possibly for BBC television's current affairs programme 'Tonight'. The property was owned by Anne Scott-James (1913- 2009), one of Britain's first career journalists. In April 1944 she married fellow journalist Macdonald Hastings (1909-1982), a noted war reporter and co-founder/editor of Country Fair Magazine.

Content

This is part of the Series: GAY01/09 Counties; within the Collection: GAY01 John Gay Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Gay, John

Keywords

Garden, People At Work, Horticulture And Gardening, Fire