How to dismantle a dam, a Garden Trust program of investigation and restoration at Packwood House, Warwickshire, and an examination of the English water garden, will take place online at April 27 at 5 am Eastern.

Remedial work to the dam below the Great Pool at Packwood House enabled, over the course of four years, a detailed account to be prepared of the construction and functioning of the dam together with a wider consideration of the part that water played in the early garden there, Documented features included an Elizabethan moated garden, important seventeenth century timber drains and relics of the wild parties from the early twentieth century.

This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 5 sessions at a cost of £20 via the Eventbrite link here.

Stephen Wass is a researcher, about to complete his D. Phil. on the subject of seventeenth-century water gardens. In addition, he works as a commercial archaeologist. In this capacity most of his projects involve historic gardens and he is currently occupied with a series of archaeological investigations connected with the latest program of restoration at Stowe Landscape Gardens near Buckingham. He is also working to set up a new research program alongside the Oxfordshire Gardens Trust into the ‘lost’ Tudor and Jacobean gardens in the county.