Brian W Taylor

The Disenchanted Garden Brian W Taylor

An eighteenth century landscape garden, with lake, woodlands, statuary and buildings designed by Humphry Repton, Middleton Hall, as envisaged by its owners, and set out by its designer, was meant to be an enchanted garden in every sense of the word, but even before it was swallowed up by urban sprawl during the twentieth century, something had gone seriously wrong with that ideal. The Disenchanted Garden. The lives and loves of people in a suburban park during the summer of 1983 and their involvement in events surrounding a tree planting ceremony to commemorate a sharp tongued local councillor's twenty-five years of service.