EPW061126
ENGLAND
(1939).
Hill End Mental Hospital and the city, St Albans, from the south-east, 1939
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Pennawd [EPW061126] Hill End Mental Hospital and the city, St Albans, from the south-east, 1939 Cyfeirnod EPW061126 Dyddiad 30 May 1939 Enw lle ST ALBANS Plwyf Ardal Rhanbarth Gwlad ENGLAND Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 517364,  207025 Hydred / Lledred -0.29967879891884, 51.749156639433 Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TL174070 Maint y ddelwedd (px) -
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ordinaryblokeLongacres Pinewood Close early 1960s, 'Jescot Dahlias' working the land before the land was compulsory-purchased from Ernie Cooper
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ordinaryblokeErnie Cooper's dahlia smallholding, where Longacres Park is now.
A member of the National Dahlia Society he specialised in developing new varieties, such as Julie. Lingold. Jim, Redun, Buttercup and Jess; all Jescot dahlias, named after his wife Jessie. The plants were grown by the tens of thousands, and Ernie was frequently searching for new ground, using land at Smallford Farm and at the new showgrounds then being developed by Roger Aylett in the mid 50s
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ordinaryblokeLongacres Pinewood Close early 1960s, 'Jescot Dahlias' before the land was compulsory-purchased from Ernie Cooper
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ordinaryblokeLongacres. In the early 1960s the land marked and that now occupied by Pinewood Close was compulsory-purchased for use by the local school from Jescot Nurseries. Not used by the school, yet became building land for Pinewood Close. It had been a market-gardening business for Jescot Dahlias, run by Ernie Cooper.
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mike18This tree (one of the largest in St Albans), surrounded by Woodland, Elm and Hazelwood Drives, is still there today.
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