A homeowner was stunned to uncover a beautiful 18th Century Gothic folly hidden at the end of his suburban back garden at the house where he has lived for 25 years. John Bostock, 62, had been ...

While some outdoor games that were popular in the Victorian era survived to modern times, such as croquet and badminton, but at least one that did not will see a revival for at least a day next ...

Follies are decorative garden features mainly built for aesthetic pleasure. Image caption, A folly was a building ... follies continued into and after the Victorian era. Image caption, Not meant ...

The Victorian Eyecatcher, is a folly built in about 1866 also probably using stone from the demolished old Brodsworth Hall. A deliberately ruinous garden feature, it is designed to draw the eye ...

“They had no cash.” At first sight, Plantation Garden looks today much like a mid-Victorian municipal park – formal beds of annuals, a palm house with exotics and an Italianate terrace full ...

AN elaborate garden "folly" that attracts 80,000 tourists a ... Mr Armstrong - whose family has lived at Tupgill Park since Victorian times - had offered to vary the opening hours to avoid any ...

A homeowner was stunned to uncover a beautiful 18th Century Gothic folly hidden at the end of his suburban back garden at the house where he has lived for 25 years. John Bostock, 62, had been ...

A homeowner was stunned to uncover a beautiful 18th Century Gothic folly hidden at the end of his suburban back garden at the house where he has lived for 25 years. John Bostock, 62, had been pruning ...