Garden Movie - Vertigo
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Crescent Garden
London W9 1EH United KingdomRefund Policy
Description
This year's garden movie is something special, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Vertigo. Voted number 1 in the British Film Institute's list of the greatest films of all time, it stars Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak in a chilling tale of obsession and madness.
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https://www.crescentgarden.co.uk/
You may already know a good deal about the history of the area in which we live: in a nutshell, the whole area was once owned by the Bishop of London, and then by the Church Commissioners.
The houses around the Crescent Garden were built between 1860 – 1880, with one or two modern ‘infills’ of later dates. In the 1980’s the Church Commissioners decided to sell the properties, which after many years of benign neglect were not in very good condition, but they had been little altered since they were built, leaving the area as something of a haven of high Victorian architecture, which in due course lead to the area being designated a Conservation Area.
The Church Commissioners retained Chestertons to manage the sale of the estate. It was agreed that the area should be split up into sections: each section being run by a self-governing limited company, with a Chairman and directors who are all residents elected at the Annual General Meeting of the company. Each area was called an Amenity Company – ours being the Crescent Amenity Company.