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It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of David George Wassell on 05th April 2024 at the age of 83. David was the Chief Landscape Architect for Telford Development Corporation from 1969 until the Development Corporation closed down in 1991.

Designed for Play: Dr Jon Winder considers the convoluted history of the children’s playground, the people involved and the places to look for source materials.

We invited Gillian Darley to write something about her interview for the post of director of the Landscape Foundation, and also about the work with which this organisation was involved.

Hal Moggridge explains how he has worked with, helped to create and is still using material in the landscape archive. Filmed by Kenan Ali.

Celebrating the 90th birthdays of Dame Sylvia Crowe DBE PPILA and Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Kt CBE RA FRIBA PPILA FRTPI. John Medhurst has shared with FOLAR his invitation, a glittering guest list and his table plan for this dinner.

Prompted by the accounts by Roderick Edwards and Francesco Vio of work with John Whalley, we were intrigued to find out more about the projects in France and how John and his team from DL+P worked with Allain Provost,

Three letters from Geoffrey Collens to John Peverley in 1960s, about his job offers as a newly qualified landscape architect, why Lovejoy associates appealed to him, mutual friends from the time they both worked at Basil Spence’s practice.

Roger Cartwright was a student at the School of Architecture and Landscape, Cheltenham from 1962 to 1965, where he first met Gordon Patterson as a lecturer and who later became a friend, also Tom Wright, John Ingoldby and Betty Willis.

Gordon was born in 1928 in Bristol, brought up in Somerset, and spent war years high on Exmoor in a farm-cottage. His father was a hardware merchant, and Gordon, as the oldest son, did not wish to get into ‘locks, screws and paint’.