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Walled garden reveals its secrets after 70 years.(News)

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From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20030430
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Byline: Catherine Jones

FOR years, staff pondered the mystery of what lay beyond the high stone wall in the peaceful museum grounds.

When, finally, they eased open the rotting wooden door they found a walled garden - a forgotten haven, reminiscent of the 1911 novel, The Secret Garden, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, in which a poorly child discovers a hideaway in a manor house.

Derelict and overgrown, the garden at the Museum of Welsh Life in St Fagans, was a shadow of its heyday of the1920s, when purple delphiniums grew below the clipped lawn terraces and the ...

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