Project Update
The first phase of our Marine Villas Project is drawing to a close. Volunteers have spent many hours researching documentary sources online and at archives. They have also visited certain key sites, with the kind permission of their owners, to survey and record features of their designed landscapes and gardens.
Work is now progressing on collating and analysing this new information to improve our records and for our planned future publication on the Marine Villas of the Isle of Wight.
We aim to have this project completed within the next year, culminating with the publication mentioned above and a celebratory event, to launch this and thank all that have helped us increase our understanding of these nationally scarce sites.
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With this improved knowledge, we hope to ensure the sites are properly recognised and through our ongoing work, will seek to encourage their conservation and whenever possible their restoration.
Our grateful thanks are given to everyone who has helped us so far, including but not limited to the wonderful team of volunteers who have given so much time and enthusiasm to the project, the owners of these largely private properties who have welcomed us, Dr Kate Feluś for the inspiration for this project as a result of her initial study commissioned by Historic England, Trustees of the IW Gardens Trust who have organised the project and worked on the analysis and the forthcoming publication.
Particular thanks and acknowledgement are given to Professor Robin McInnes for the use of images from his carefully curated collection, to Trustee Sheila Caws for her excellent coordination and editing skills and, as always, to Dr Vicky Basford Trustee and our Research Lead who is now making sense of what the information has told us and is writing the text for our new publication.
The first phase of our Marine Villas Project is drawing to a close. Volunteers have spent many hours researching documentary sources online and at archives. They have also visited certain key sites, with the kind permission of their owners, to survey and record features of their designed landscapes and gardens.
Work is now progressing on collating and analysing this new information to improve our records and for our planned future publication on the Marine Villas of the Isle of Wight.
We aim to have this project completed within the next year, culminating with the publication mentioned above and a celebratory event, to launch this and thank all that have helped us increase our understanding of these nationally scarce sites.
.
With this improved knowledge, we hope to ensure the sites are properly recognised and through our ongoing work, will seek to encourage their conservation and whenever possible their restoration.
Our grateful thanks are given to everyone who has helped us so far, including but not limited to the wonderful team of volunteers who have given so much time and enthusiasm to the project, the owners of these largely private properties who have welcomed us, Dr Kate Feluś for the inspiration for this project as a result of her initial study commissioned by Historic England, Trustees of the IW Gardens Trust who have organised the project and worked on the analysis and the forthcoming publication.
Particular thanks and acknowledgement are given to Professor Robin McInnes for the use of images from his carefully curated collection, to Trustee Sheila Caws for her excellent coordination and editing skills and, as always, to Dr Vicky Basford Trustee and our Research Lead who is now making sense of what the information has told us and is writing the text for our new publication.