The Society\u2019s resumed its meetings programme in September with a fascinating presentation by the National Trust\u2019s Michael Smith on the history and restoration of Croome Court.\u00a0 The story of Croome was about three men – the owner, Lord Coventry; the garden designer, Lancelot \u2018Capability\u2019 Brown and the architect and designer, Robert Adam.\u00a0 Two of these also had links to Hagley: Sanderson Miller, who designed Hagley Hall, was a friend of Lord Coventry and Brown worked at Lord Cobham\u2019s Stowe before he moved to Croome in order to complete his first complete estate.\u00a0 Unusually, Brown also designed the house but as he concentrated increasingly on the landscape, Adam was brought in to design the garden structures.\u00a0 Croome\u2019s more recent history proved just as interesting as its construction; after its sale in 1948 the Court was used as a school, by the Hare Krishnas and as a hotel before being bought by the Croome Heritage Trust and opened by the National Trust in 2009.\u00a0 Michael\u2019s enthusiasm for his subject was infectious and he concluded with a tantalising glimpse of the development of radar during the last war when much of the site became RAF Defford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Society\u2019s resumed its meetings programme in September with a fascinating presentation by the National Trust\u2019s Michael Smith on the history and restoration of Croome Court.\u00a0 The story of Croome was about three men – the owner, Lord Coventry; the garden designer, Lancelot \u2018Capability\u2019 Brown and the architect and designer, Robert Adam.\u00a0 Two of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}