Just over a decade after opening, the world's first horticultural college became women only offering them an enterprising career in days where such opportunities were rare. Reporter SAMANTHA PAYNE ...

AN ARTIST is to hold an exhibition charting the history of a former horticultural college. Cliona Reilly is based in a studio in the grounds of what was previously Swanley Horticultural College ...

1943 — I went to Swanley Horticultural College, Kent. Unfortunately we were bombed out in March 1944. There were between 30 and 40 students inthe common room at the time, ...

1898: Enters Swanley College of Horticulture and comes top in the RHS Principle of Horticulture Examination. 1899: Takes a second course at Swanley.

Hextable and Swanley Women's Institute is 100 years old. It was started by a Miss Kekewich, the vice-principal of Swanley’s Horticultural College, which was the first of its kind in Britain when ...