Tuesday, 2nd December 2025
The landscape designer, Thomas White (c. 1736-1811), had a long career during which he worked at over 90 sites across northern England and Scotland, providing improvement plans and often carrying out their implementation. He was usually engaged at multiple sites and needed to liaise with owners, estate stewards (or factors in Scotland), nurserymen who supplied the shrubs and trees and his foremen responsible for supervising the work. While he was often on the road visiting in person, this was not always possible and so he relied on the only form of communication available at the time – letters.