Let's hear it for the Jammie Dodgers ponds! Everyday marvels win protection

From a car park near Heathrow to the water features of a Wirral biscuit factory, an astonishing variety of postwar living landscapes and buildings are being awarded protection. Is this a revolution?Think of England’s listed gardens and your mind conjures up visions of rolling Capability Brown landscapes, stately home lawns flanked by herbaceous borders and yew hedges clipped into crisp geometric formations. You probably don’t think of the ponds outside the old Jammie Dodgers factory in Moreton on the Wirral, or the car park of a 1980s business estate near Heathrow airport.But Historic England and the Gardens Trust want you to think differently. These two unlikely sites are among a fascinating new list of 20 postwar parks, gardens and landscapes that have been added to the protected national register this week, in an eye-opening move that might make you look again at an innocuous bit of verge or a concrete bench. Continue reading…
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