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Arthur Parkinson
Arthur William Parkinson (born 1992) is a writer and gardener known for keeping chickens and growing flowers at the Emma Bridgewater Factory in Stoke-on-Trent England. He was bought up in Nottinghamshire and bred peacocks at Newstead Abbey park in Ravenshead, most notably one being of white feathers. He studied gardening at Kew Gardens before working for the gardener,television presenter and florist Sarah Raven at her home in East Sussex. He then went onto work as a gardener for the ceramic designer Emma Bridgewater at her factory in Stoke on Trent in 2014 taking on a walled garden and courtyard area attached to its gift shop and cafe as part of the working factories visitor attraction. He returned to work for Sarah Raven in the summer of 2017 assisting with her Chelsea flower show cutting garden. His first book published March 2018 titled as ‘The Pottery Gardener - Flowers and Fowl at the Emma Bridgewater Factory’ Parkinson wrote as a semi biographical peice and photographically lead tribute to his work at the factory. It received quotes from both Sarah Raven and the actor Joanna Lumley. The book also received a foreword from Emma Bridgewater.