A young Max Hastings pushes a flame gun through a crowd of men in the garden of Rose Cottage in Aldworth

Date:
Late 1950s
Location:
Rose Cottage, Aldworth, Parsonage Green, West Berkshire, RG8 9RL
Reference:
AA089916
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. Their son, seen in this photograph, is the journalist, author and military historian Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (b. 1945).

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, Georgian House, Childhood, People At Work, Horticulture And Gardening