Rømø
Rømø , island (1992 pop. 808), 39 sq mi (101 sq km), SW Denmark, in the North Sea, one of the North Frisian Islands, connected with Jylland by a causeway. Rømø and Lafolk are the chief towns. A whaling base in the 18th cent., it is now a bathing resort and has fisheries. The island was held by Prussia from 1864 to 1920.
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A Garden of British Botanical Delights at Haley & Steele Gallery; May 30th -- June 12th -- The Botanical Print Online Auction.
PR Newswire; 5/23/2003; 700+ words
; ...Over 600 Original Hand Painted Lithographs From Sir Joseph Paxton's Most Important Work The Magazine of Botany. 1834...600 beautiful Victorian botanical prints from Sir Joseph Paxton's Magazine of Botany (1834-1849). Individual...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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A cultivated genius.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 9/14/2003; 700+ words
; ...scientist. And then there was Sir Joseph Paxton: gardener, engineer, architect...the son of a farm labourer, Paxton received little formal schooling...Disguise: The Visionary Life Of Joseph Paxton by Kate Colquhoun Fourth...
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Derby's crystal Palace was a 33-year wonder
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 5/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...Derby-born civil engineer Sir Charles Fox, who was Sir Joseph Paxton's collaborator on the original...Strutt brothers, most notably, Joseph Strutt, donor of the Arboretum...architect - perhaps even Sir Joseph Paxton - although his experience with...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Ploughing furrows we still follow; The huge debt today's gardens owe to the Victorians, in design and new plants, is investigated by Roger Clarke.(Gardening)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/20/2001; 700+ words
; ...cost, the Great Exhibition had Sir Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace which was a...400ft wide all in glass and iron. Paxton had learned his architecture in...conservatories were a feature of the age and Paxton's designs were a forerunner of...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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TIME TUNNEL: Gardens become a growing attraction of Heritage open days; SOAK-UP SOME OF THE AREA'S RICH PAST WHEN HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND GARDENS REVEAL THEIR TREASURES OF DAYS GONE BY.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 9/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...available at 10.30am and 1pm from Paxton's Lodge by the entrance. Many...architect, gardener and Coventry MP Sir Joseph Paxton, who became the head gardener...19th century and a bust of Sir Joseph Paxton. This timbered room with...
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The mother of all local parks to be rejuvenated
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/10/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...when it was designed by the landscape architect Sir Joseph Paxton. Paxton was understandably pessimistic about his project...and a sandstone Grand Entrance modelled on Rome. Paxton also incorporated surrounding land into the park...
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Letter: The vision of the Crystal Palace
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/26/1995; ; 464 words
; From Mr Ken Lewington Sir: Further to your article of 18 October...to the following points: If Sir Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace is rebuilt using...Prince Albert, Sir Henry Cole and Sir Joseph Paxton. Crystal Palace Park deserves not...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/3/1999; 700+ words
; ...politician and scientist, 1753; Sir Joseph Paxton, architect and landscape gardener...sporting writer, 1849; Marie-Joseph Eugene Sue, novelist, 1857...Ventura, Jesuit preacher, 1861; Joseph Severn, painter, 1879; William...
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Crystal gazing at the Palace
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 12/7/2000; 337 words
; ...the recent tribute to Sir Arthur Crosfield as a...Palace are simple. Sir Joseph Paxton's great Park is at risk...restore as much as it can of Paxton's vision, but it needs...brilliant response to Paxton's own radical, engineering...
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Famous sons and daughters A look at some of Derbyshire's famous faces with www.youand yesterday.co.uk
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 10/5/2007; 484 words
; ...host The Great Exhibition of 1851, was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, once head gardener at Chatsworth House, but the...Palace, along with his partner, Henderson, and Joseph Paxton. Fox and Henderson dismantled the Crystal Palace...
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Sir Joseph Paxton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Joseph Paxton 1803-65, English architect, noted for his use of glass and iron in a proto-modern manner. Beginning his career as a gardener...
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Paxton, Sir Joseph
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Paxton, Sir Joseph (1803–65). English gardener...Horticultural Register (1831–5) and Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Flowering...capacity, the design was essentially Paxton's, who was to turn more and more to...
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Chatsworth House
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Elizabethan house, begun by Sir William Cavendish in 1552...Devonshire and his gardener Sir Joseph Paxton devised a system of cascades...1836–40) by Paxton and Decimus Burton—which anticipated Paxton's design for the Crystal...
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Crystal Palace
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Crystal Palace. Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition in...greatest success of the Exhibition. Paxton based it upon the lily house he...duke of Wellington . Victoria took Paxton's progress from gardener's...
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modern architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...formerly eclectic approach to design. Technical progress in the use of iron and glass made possible the construction of Sir Joseph Paxton's celebrated Crystal Palace in London (1851), in which a remarkable delicacy was achieved. In the ensuing years...
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