A new research project is being launched at Nelson garden, aimed at restoring the 19th century garden based on the Ordnance Survey map of 1881.

Welcomed by John Thorneycroft, Chairman of the Nelson Garden Preservation Trust, 90 invited guests heard how the proposal would include the removal of the fish pond and the restoration of the hypocaust wall to its original use for espaliered fruit trees. and the reinstatement of the lost sections of the gravel pathways. It is also hoped to reconstruct a replica of the original rustic summerhouse at the northern end of the high promenade, originally destroyed in the 1930's.