Jellicoe - A Factory Garden: The Serpents of Moreton Marsh
Talk by Ed Bennis, ex-Head of the School of Landscape at Manchester Metropolitan University, about the Cadbury Factory at Moreton (1952-3) in the Wirral. Moreton is pivotal in the development of Jellicoe’s thinking; it is the first of his water gardens that combined his theories on perspective, illusion and the use of metaphor. The site proved to be his experimental ground for greater things to follow where details and ideas were replicated at Hemel Hempstead. Jellicoe married his abstract ideas with technical competence, and a story line that would inspire the imagination; hence the wind breaks and mounds became the Serpents of Moreton Marsh.
Time: 10:00 BST
