Not a picture of ours this time, but a link to a website chock full of fascinating historical pictures of the Duryard area, including some pictures of Reed Hall, or Streatham Hall as it once was.
Photo from http://www.duryard.com/Reed_Hall_1903.html
During the 1930s, St. Luke’s was used as a holiday centre over the Summer. The holiday centre was often staffed by the students and as well as waiting and other jobs, the students would spend up to 2 hours a day tending the gardens of the college. The flowers for the dining tables and many of the vegetables served to the holidaymakers were grown on-site.
This photo of St. Luke’s floodlit was taken in 1935 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
The caption to the photo reads:
For the Silver Jubilee of King George V the college was floodlit, free of charge, by the Exeter Gaslight and Coke Company. The gas pressure in Heavitree was noticeably affected.
Iain Park, the Director of Grounds at the University of Exeter has written an article featured in the latest issue of the Devon Gardens Trust newsletter about the historic campus at St. Luke’s.
A view of the Campus prior to the development of the Forum or the building of Xfi and Building One.
Harrison 1974/5
This photo, taken around 1974-5 shows the colourful planting, at the front of Harrison. In the foreground you can see the shadows of scaffolding around Amory, which is under construction.
This picture is quite fascinating. An aerial shot from my handily titled ‘photos from 60s and 70s file’ so I am not sure when it was taken, but it must be pre-1974, as Amory hasn’t been built.
Looking up Stocker Road
A couple of weeks ago I posted a TBT picture but explained that we didn’t know where it was. Well, I walked a different route to my office yesterday and recognised the big stones from the front of the picture and took a quick photo.
Laver ponds under construction and today
Below are photos of the current gardens, gardens from around 2002 and some from the 1990s.
2014
2002
1990s
This last picture is also interesting as it shows what was the Campus’ tallest tree, a Metasequoia (middle-left at the top of the picture) which had to be taken down around 15-20 years ago.
It is also interesting that photographers recording images of the gardens decades apart seems to choose similar angles!
2014
2002
1990s
This last picture shows the Reed gardens in winter. Date unknown.
Reed winter bedding
Reed Hall in the background.
2014
1990s