A warm welcome is extended to the delegates, speakers and sponsors by Tim Gale, event organiser and chair for the day. Tim relates that his first and treasured experience in landscape architecture was a summer job with Colvin & Moggridge. What young people encounter in their first jobs and how they are treated can make a huge impact, positively and negatively, on their future careers

Welcome and introduction to FOLAR by Annabel Downs. Why archives are so important especially for future generations; and also now, practising landscape architects must consider what they do what their drawings and records - the Landscape Institute collection at The MERL is a living collection - it needs to reflect changing ideas, needs and times.

Brenda Colvin wanted her practice, which she established in 1922 and moved to her home in the village of Filkins (W. Oxfordshire) in (19? ) to continue beyond her retirement. Retirement is not the right word, but possibly when she felt she would not have the necessary stamina to continue with her portfolio of work. As this included some long running projects and long standing clients, she was preparing this succession plan and so in 1968-69 and she consulted with her friends, Susan and Geoffrey Jellicoe.

It is interesting to see how different speakers approach their talks. Ralph Cobham worked with Hal on Blenheim Park for 30 years. A number of landscape practices were invited to bid for a master plan to restore the heritage landscape, and Hal and Ralph each with their own practice covering sometimes the same work, were both commissioned to collaborate together on the Master Plan.

Diana Armstrong Bell, award winning landscape designer, leads a discussion with a small panel of the UK's foremost landscape designers - Dominic Cole, Tom Stuart-Smith, and Kim Wilkie - reflecting on the design ideas and practice of Hal Moggridge and his influence and inspiration on others. Hal joins in at the end section and responds to questions about being an architect,

Tom Turner was invited to consider the philosophical and theoretical approach which underpin Hal's work. He interprets this topic with a series of questions: where in the history of art does the landscape architecture of Hal Moggridge sit? He looks at style, art and then the man himself. Following an IFLA conference some 50 years ago in Brussels (possibly this one in 1972, IFLA

To FOLAR’s knowledge, there are very few people who have researched the Landscape Institute’s archives at Reading as thoroughly and productively as has Luca Csepely-Knorr, or who have inspired so many others to become researchers and collaborate in her broad areas of interest. She has also directed and sustained a Europe wide scholarly focus on the archive. As a landscape

Photographer, author and advisor to the Capability Brown Tercentenary Festival, Steffie Shields says that every time she visits Blenheim Park, she notices something new. Over the years through her research, she has learnt much from and about Capability Brown. His plan for Hainton, Lincolnshire, shows controlled views out through the boundary planting to various features, but

here are probably not many practices who have given more of their time and energy supporting and promoting the Institute than Brenda Colvin and Hal Moggridge. Colvin as founder member, spanning different years both Colvin and Moggridge served on council, both sat on numerous committees and indirectly represented the LI for international organisations. Both served terms as president of the Institute.