Old Main Gate: Stewart Family Home - Ferndown
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Old Main Gate: Stewart Family Home - Ferndown
Image: © Martin Rowley Taken: 21 Mar 2012
This is the old gateway to Ferndown Hill House on Wimborne Road (East), Ferndown - the family home of the Stewart family. The nursery on this site has two claims to national fame: in 1955, they opened the first garden centre in the UK on this site - just a little way to the west of the family house. And in the same decade, as the firm relocated to a fresh site at Broomhill, near Wimborne Minster, the Stewarts introduced container-grown stock to the British horticultural industry, revolutionising production and sales. As can be seen, the gateway has been bricked up. Behind the wall now lies an estate of houses – the wall is all that is left on this once great enterprise, though Stewart's Nursery still trades at Broomhill and elsewhere.
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Image Location
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50.809665
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-1.883851