Water Gardens Restoration

We've collected all of our Water Gardens resources into one place to make it easy to find what you are looking for.

Click here for a report (and photo) by Pieter Morpurgo describing the official opening of the Water Gardens by Princess Alexandra.

Click here for information about the Water Gardens including access facilities, opening times and rules & regulations.

Click below for a renovation video featuring an interview with Martin Wiles, the Project Manager for the restoration works.

Click here for an article by Pieter Morpurgo, Chairman of The Friends of Bushy & Home Parks. Pieter describes the background to the Water Gardens restoration and how The FBHP were instrumental in the process from the very beginning.

Click below for a video describing the Water Gardens restoration:

Click here for the Friends' weekly CCTV screen-grabs photo gallery.
From April 2008 through to October 2008 the Friends filmed the whole of the restoration work to the Water Gardens. The filming took place from 7am to 7pm every day and video was captured at the rate of one frame per second. This photo gallery shows freeze-frame stills taken from the video at weekly intervals. The still has been captured at 1pm each day

Click below for a video including weekly screen grabs from CCTV of the restoration:

Click here for The Friends' digital photo gallery of Water Gardens restoration.
This is The Friends collection of photographs taken with digital cameras during the restoration of the Water Gardens

Click here for The Friends' Water Gardens Tour photo gallery and report (Pieter Morpurgo).
In November 2008, shortly after the project work was completed for the restoration work, The Friends were taken on a tour of the Water Gardens. This gallery displays the photos taken on that tour.