Chris Mayes

Landscape Architect, 30 years working in the English landscape. Love poetry, writing about landscape, landscape history and good real food. My views are my own.

[Historic England @HistoricEngland]

New research: Historic Urban Parks Under Threat

https://t.co/pBXhAigHHJ

[HE North West @HE_NorthWest]

Get inspired to create beautiful places #nationalgardeningweek Visit Corporation Park,Blackburn Gd II* https://t.co/sG8fVTvlin

[HE North West @HE_NorthWest]

Get inspired to create beautiful places #nationalgardeningweek by visiting Edward Kemp's Stanley Park Liverpool Gd II* It's his bicentenary.

[The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety]

Sylvia Plath, a voice that can’t be silenced https://t.co/BlbZMgCIHu

[HE North West @HE_NorthWest]

It's #nationalgardeningweek. Get inspiration for your own & find gardens on your doorstep. See Wavertree Botanic Garden & Park GDII*

[UEA @uniofeastanglia]

New funding from @heritagelottery awarded to @UEA_Landscape to explore the historic significance of orchards: https://t.co/uOfSOP7bik

[HE North West @HE_NorthWest]

Get inspired to create beautiful places #nationalgardeningweek & visit Edward Kemp's Queens Park Crewe Gd II* It's his birth bicentenary.

[Historic England North East @HE_NorthEast]

Proposals to restore Croxdale Hall's parkland & gardens created a new research opportunity - more info at: https://t.co/4BoQGreXJQ

[Historic England @HistoricEngland]

Happy birthday @BirkenheadPark1!

It was the first publicly funded park in the UK, opened on this day in 1847

https://t.co/uRwuD8QQhY

[Jenifer White MBE @JeniferJWhite]

'Discover Kemp' #Cheshire Gardens Trust. His 'How to Lay out a Small Garden' book was advertised alongside #CharlesDickens Bleak House.

[Historic England @HistoricEngland]

#OTD in 1956, Slyvia Plath & Ted Hughes first met in Cambridge. They married at St George the Martyr 4 months later https://t.co/2q4zHxsMek

[Jenifer White MBE @JeniferJWhite]

BBC News - Leazes Park vandal attack 'heartbreaking' https://t.co/zNxdBEXOJW @HeritageCrime @HE_NorthEast @thegardenstrust @HLFNorthEast

[Chris Mayes @KitMayes]

One of Kemp's best pieces of landscape design - how fitting in the bicentenary year of his birth! https://t.co/3ViC8lBxNO

[Historic England @HistoricEngland]

Can these repairs help Flaybrick Cemetery recover from years of neglect?

via @LivEchonews

https://t.co/Zetk0SOnbM

[Drew Bennellick @DrewBennellick]

In response to CLG Parks report @heritagelottery supports @NewcastleCC to develop city parks trust https://t.co/KYNfEczUUo @NTExtAffairs

[Landscape Institute @talklandscape]

LI response to @CommonsCLG
#parks report - national leadership & commitment needed at highest level: https://t.co/UjTPUOTHsI

[National Poetry Day @PoetryDayUK]

The Newcastle Poetry Festival has announced its line-up. And what a line-up! Put May 9 - 13 in your calendars.
https://t.co/UAUEMNwzOA

[Chris Mayes @KitMayes]

Brings back fond memories - thanks! https://t.co/m5j35QOXkq

[James @jhallwood]

Please humour my niche Tudor-Brexit jokes.

[Landscape Institute @talklandscape]

Historic England consultation merits a look by members and perhaps some comment, e.g. regarding handling of setting: https://t.co/SsjmtUd0yH