Old travel Blog photograph of the Terraced Gardens of Mellerstain House, near Kelso, Scotland. The house stands in 80 hectares of parkland, with an Italianate formal terraced garden at the rear, with a sweeping stretch of lawn descending to a lake. These gardens were designed around 1910 by Sir Reginald Blomfield, who was a prolific British architect, garden designer and author of the Victorian and Edwardian period. In 1886 Blomfield married the daughter of Henry Burra of Rye, Sussex, England, a town where he had designed several houses, including his own, the very informal Point Hill, Playden. The family still live there. One house was let to the American novelist Henry James. The same year, Blomfield and the printer T.J. Cobden Sanderson built themselves a pair of pretty houses in Frognal, Hampstead, Middlesex; 51 Frognal remained Blomfield's London home and he died there on 27 December 1942.
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