Catalogue description Nigel Temple Collection

This collection consists of four series, the largest and most important of which is a collection of postcards of public parks and gardens and associated garden architecture. In addition to this, there are photographs of Georgian and Victorian buildings in Cheltenham; various 19th and early 20th century photographs, in albums and files, of buildings principally in the south and Midlands; and miscellaneous material, including copies of largely 19th-century photographs of garden buildings used to research unidentified buildings for Temple's book on George Repton's Pavilion Notebook, an illustrated card index on the Modern Movement, an illustrated lecture series prepared by Temple, and 5 sales particulars and three books.

Temple, Nigel

Copyright: Refer Copyright To National Monuments Record Archives

Public

Nigel Temple is a postcard collector, antiquarian and authority on garden design; he is a member of the Garden History Society.

The postcard collection was transferred in 3 separate acquisitions: 1997, 1999 and 2002. The photographs of buildings in Cheltenham were acquired in 1972, originally housed in the Red Box open-access collection but later removed prior to cataloguing. The rest of the material was acquired between 1998 and 2001; NMR Album 123 was donated in 1993.

1: Post cards are in topographical order. London cards are alphabetical by site/garden. No separate index or other finding aids, however collection is easy to use. Some cards have colour coded stickers identifying particular themes, structures etc.

2: Prints are identified on the reverse.

3: Most items are identified and captioned. See broad subject/contents list.

4. Post cards are arranged topographically and are captioned.