User:Gardener123

My Wikipedia interests are mostly London parks and gardens, Anglican churches, clergy and theological colleges, Norfolk and Australian Capital Territory local politicians, and art and literature. I am currently working on the first women mayors and lord mayors of towns and cities in the UK.

Articles I have started or to which I have made substantial edits (as at 4 May 2024):

Parks, gardens and squares, and buildings within them
Substantial edits to:
 * Archbishop's Park
 * Brimmington Park
 * Brunswick Park, Southwark
 * Cleaver Square
 * Hilly Fields, Lewisham
 * Meath Gardens
 * Nursery Row Park
 * Old Paradise Gardens
 * Paterson Park
 * Pump House Gallery, in Battersea Park
 * Queen Charlotte's Cottage, in Kew Gardens
 * Red Cross Garden, Southwark
 * Royal Flora Gardens, former pleasure gardens in Camberwell
 * Shrewsbury Barrow
 * Tabard Gardens
 * Tower Beach, London, a former urban beach next to the Tower of London
 * Bermondsey Spa Gardens
 * Burgess Park
 * King Edward III manor house
 * King's Stairs Gardens
 * Ruskin Park
 * St Anne's Churchyard
 * Vauxhall Park

Landscape gardeners

 * Madeline Agar
 * J. J. Sexby

Garden charities

 * Metropolitan Public Gardens Association

Parks and gardens elsewhere

 * Candie Gardens, in St Peter Port, Guernsey
 * Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden, wildflower garden in Sydney, Australia
 * Prince Albert Gardens, in Swanage, Dorset
 * Prince Albert Memorial, Swanage, the first civic memorial to Prince Albert, now located in Prince Albert Gardens
 * Recreation Ground, Swanage

Anglican clergy
Substantial edits to:
 * Jacob Ajetunmobi
 * Nicholas Allenby
 * Arthur Barnes (monsignor), subsequently a Catholic prelate and controversialist
 * Warwick Bastian
 * John Bell (Australian priest)
 * Keith Benzies
 * Ian Black (priest)
 * Patrick Brisbane, first Australian Aborigine to be ordained priest
 * Richard Caister, Margery Kempe's confessor
 * Hugh Chapman
 * Alf Clint, founder of Tranby
 * Frank Coaldrake
 * Horace Dixon (bishop)
 * Bede Frost, the subject of the only Anglican heresy trial to take place in Australia
 * Peter Howes
 * Bill Jacob
 * Martin Kaye
 * Maurice Kelly (priest)
 * Roland Koh
 * John Leong
 * Joseph Lui, one of the first two Torres Strait Islanders to be ordained priest
 * Henry Mercer (priest)
 * Bevan Meredith - strictly an edit as it was a redirect page previously
 * Grosvenor Miles - strictly an edit as it was a redirect page previously
 * Rosemary Mitchell
 * John Nurser
 * Poey Passi, one of the first two Torres Strait Islanders to be ordained priest
 * Peter Ramsden (bishop)
 * David Rogers (priest)
 * Arthur Sephton
 * James Seth (bishop)
 * Edmund Suckling
 * Basil Temenggong
 * Mervyn Wilson
 * Gordon Arthur (bishop)
 * John Ashton (bishop)
 * Bill Baddeley
 * De Witt Batty
 * Kenneth Bevan
 * Richard Boys (priest)
 * Brian Brindley
 * Denis Bryant
 * Arthur Capell
 * Edwin Curtis
 * Ross Davies (bishop)
 * Cecil Druitt
 * Dennis Ede
 * Frank Gillingham
 * Derek Goodrich
 * Mathew Hale (bishop)
 * Richard Lewis (bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
 * Henry Newton (bishop)
 * Philip Strong
 * Gerard Tucker
 * Cecil Warren
 * Philip Yonge

Existing colleges
Substantial edits to:
 * Diocesan Training Centre (Mauritius)
 * House of the Epiphany
 * Newton Theological College, the national theological college in Papua New Guinea
 * St Agnes' House
 * Wollaston College
 * St Mark's National Theological Centre

Former colleges
Substantial edits to:
 * Bishop's College, Thursday Island
 * Clergy Training College, Goulburn
 * Gloucester Theological College
 * Rochester Theological College
 * St John's Theological College, Melbourne
 * St John's Theological College, Perth
 * St Michael's House
 * St Paul's Theological College, Mauritius
 * St Paul's Theological College, Moa
 * St Wilfrid's Theological College, Cressy
 * Truro Theological College
 * St John's College, Morpeth

Anglican churches
Substantial edits to:
 * Christ Church, South Yarra
 * St Anne's Church, Hessenford
 * St James' Church, Porto
 * St John the Baptist Church, Windsor
 * St John and St Mary, Stiffkey
 * St Margaret's Church, Hopton
 * St Mary and All Saints, Little Walsingham
 * St Mary's Church, Holme-next-the-Sea
 * St Mary's Church, Swanage
 * St Mary's Church, Welling
 * St Nicholas's Church, Kimmeridge
 * Ss Peter and Paul Cathedral, Dogura
 * St Philip's Church, Avondale Square
 * All Saints Church, Canberra
 * All Saints' Church, Falmouth
 * Cathedral of the Isles
 * Christ Church, Brixton Road
 * Christ Church, Southwark
 * Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton
 * Creake Abbey
 * Holy Trinity, Brussels
 * Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley
 * Holy Trinity Church, Reading
 * Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe
 * St Alfege Church, Greenwich
 * St Anne's Church, Soho
 * St Bartholomew's Church, Armley
 * St Dunstan's, Stepney
 * St George's Church, Lisbon
 * St John's Church, Waterloo
 * St Mark's Church, Kennington
 * Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Bingham
 * St Matthew's, Bethnal Green
 * St Michael and All Angels Church, Barnes
 * St Paul's Cathedral, Rockhampton
 * St Paul's Church, Newington
 * St Peter Mancroft
 * St Peter's Church, Streatham
 * St Peter's Church, Walworth
 * Church of St Thomas à Becket, Capel

Anglican religious orders
Substantial edits to:
 * Community of the Ascension, first Anglican male religious community in Australia
 * Community of the Holy Name (Australia), oldest Anglican female religious community in Australia
 * Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, established by Marian Hughes, the first post-Reformation Anglican nun
 * Community of Christ the King
 * Community of the Resurrection

Anglican newspapers

 * The Anglican, the national Australian Anglican newspaper, 1952-1970
 * Church Scene, the national Australian Anglican newspaper, 1971-1997
 * Church Standard, the national Australian Anglican newspaper, 1912-1952

Other Anglican
Substantial edits to:
 * Anglican Board of Mission - Australia, the national mission agency of the Anglican Church of Australia
 * Dogura, Papua New Guinea
 * The National Pilgrimage
 * Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
 * Anglican Diocese of Ballarat
 * Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture
 * Anglican Diocese of St Arnaud, former diocese in Australia
 * Margery Kempe

Local politicians in Norfolk

 * William Appleyard (MP), MP and first Mayor of Norwich
 * Ethel Colman, first woman to be Lord Mayor of Norwich and first woman to be a Lord Mayor anywhere in the United Kingdom
 * John Norman (alderman)
 * Charles Jewson (Lord Mayor)
 * Nockold Tompson

Other Norfolk

 * Alderman Norman's Foundation
 * Bracondale School
 * Britannia (smack)
 * Duncan Hall School
 * Newton, Norfolk
 * Reedlighter

Other London
Substantial edits to:
 * Cecil Belfield Clarke, one of the first black doctors in London
 * Hugh Chapman, member of the London County Council
 * Charles Ford (British politician), member of the London County Council
 * Frank Geere Howard, member of the London County Council
 * London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
 * Cadogan Hall
 * London Film Museum
 * St George's Cathedral, Southwark

Other Dorset
Substantial edits to:
 * Priest's Way
 * RAF Ringstead
 * Spyway
 * Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre
 * Wimborne (disambiguation)
 * Wimborne Market
 * Swanage
 * Trevor Chadwick

Other Channel Islands

 * William Arnold (bailiff)
 * RNLB "Sir William Arnold" (ON 1025)
 * Candie Cemetery
 * Sark Henge

First women mayors and lord mayors

 * Florence Brown, first woman to be Lord Mayor of Bristol
 * Marjorie Brown (politician), first woman to be Lord Mayor of Birmingham
 * Ethel Colman, first woman to be Lord Mayor of Norwich and first woman to be a Lord Mayor anywhere in the United Kingdom
 * Eva Hartree, first woman to be Mayor of Cambridge
 * Kathleen Lower, first woman to be Lord Mayor of Oxford
 * Annie Major, first woman to be Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull - strictly an edit as it was a redirect page previously
 * Jacquetta Marshall, first woman to be Lord Mayor of Plymouth
 * Mary Whitmore, first woman to be Mayor of Ipswich

Australian Capital Territory politics and politicians

 * Rose Andrew
 * Maurene Horder, first woman to be the leader of a parliamentary Labor Party in any state or territory parliament in Australia
 * Bill Pye
 * Joan Taggart, first woman to be a national office holder of the Australian Labor Party
 * Ivor Vivian
 * Robyn Walmsley
 * Maureen Worsley, only woman to be an Australia Party MP

Substantial edits to:
 * Australian Capital Territory Progress and Welfare Council
 * Ian Black (politician)
 * Harold Hird
 * Jim Pead

Australian Capital Territory judges
Substantial edits to:
 * Hilary Penfold, first woman to be First Parliamentary Counsel in Australia and first woman to be a resident judge in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
 * Richard Refshauge
 * Richard Blackburn

Organ builders

 * Cedric Arnold
 * Cedric Arnold, Williamson & Hyatt
 * A. Hunter & Son
 * Positive Organ Company
 * W.G. Vowles
 * Williamson & Hyatt

Art and artists
Substantial edits to:
 * Blandford Fletcher
 * Goddard & Gibbs
 * Augustus Lunn
 * Ólöf Pálsdóttir
 * Richard Robbins (artist)
 * Clayton and Bell
 * Newport Street Gallery
 * Omar Ramsden

Literature
Substantial edits to:
 * If Winter Comes (disambiguation)
 * If Winter Comes (novel)
 * Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper
 * Mary Barton
 * Naboth

Writers
Substantial edits to:
 * Douglas Galbraith
 * Gordon Glover
 * Mark Hyatt
 * Amirah Inglis
 * Archie Johnstone
 * Nancy Johnstone (writer)
 * Cressida Lindsay
 * Marcin Wicha
 * Charles Bennett (screenwriter)
 * Donald Henderson (writer)
 * Margery Kempe
 * E. C. R. Lorac
 * E. Nesbit

Architects and architecture

 * Elijah Hoole (architect)
 * A.H. Skipworth

Newspapers (excluding Anglican)

 * Nation (Australia)
 * The Peacemaker (newspaper)
 * The Vote (newspaper) - strictly an edit as it was a redirect page previously

Actors

 * Francis Compton (actor), Mr Justice Wainwright in Witness for the Prosecution
 * Hattie Ladbury
 * Kathleen Saintsbury

Theatres
Substantial edits to:
 * Brixton House
 * Turbine Theatre
 * Ovalhouse
 * Pantheon, London

Theatre companies

 * 1927 (theatre company)

Lines

 * St Germans & Looe Railway

Stations

 * Hessenford railway station
 * Seaton railway station (Cornwall)
 * Millendreath railway station
 * Looe high-level railway station

Other
Substantial edits to:
 * Albert Memorial (disambiguation)
 * Bourne Mill, Colchester
 * Brighton College, Manly
 * Charles Fisher (headmaster)
 * Grand Hotel (Locarno)
 * Hartree (disambiguation)
 * Hessenford (disambiguation)
 * Municipal Association Group
 * Salisbury bell foundry
 * Society Of the Holy Trinity (disambiguation)
 * Skipworth (disambiguation)
 * Big Yellow Group
 * Henry Marcus Clark
 * Gordon Hamilton Fairley
 * Iken
 * List of mayors of Ipswich Borough, Suffolk
 * Nymphalis antiopa
 * Prospect Cottage
 * St Peter's School, Seaford