Plan of the Gibberd Garden, Harlow

Plan of the Gibberd Garden, Harlow, with later annotations by Sir Frederick Gibberd to show the addition of the Log Castle, dated Nov 1980. Sir Frederick, when working on Harlow New Town, looked for somewhere near to Harlow to make a landscaped garden and discovered the Marsh Lane property, advertised by the estate agent as a 'small farmery'. The garden he noted, 'was not to be a flower garden, a natural garden, a formal garden, a sculpture garden. All I wanted to make was an original garden. It was no longer to be a farm with labourer's cottage and a quiet spare house for the gentry, but a country house in the setting of a garden'.