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Ferguson's gang /
- Title
- Ferguson's gang / Polly Bagnall and Sally Beck.
- Author
- Bagnall, Polly.
- Publication
- London : National Trust, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DA655 .B34 2015 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Beck, Sally.
- Description
- 232 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The Ferguson Gang was a mysterious and deeply eccentric group of women in the 1930s who combined anarchic stunts, fine dining and saving the English countryside. Disturbed by the growing destruction of our landscape and historic buildings they started to raise money for the National Trust, which a masked member would deliver in bizarre ways - Victorian coins sewn into a goose's carcass, 100 pound notes wrapped around cigars and cheques stuffed into miniature bottles. In between stunts they travelled the country finding new places under threat, fuelled by hampers from Fortnums. They maintained their anonymity until death, but this biography unmasks them all for the first time.
- Subjects
- Monuments > Conservation and restoration
- Historic buildings > Conservation and restoration
- Pressure groups
- England
- History
- Monuments > Conservation and restoration > England > History > 20th century
- Historic buildings > Conservation and restoration > England > History > 20th century
- Pressure groups > England > History > 20th century
- Natural monuments > England
- 1900 - 1999
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "The remarkable story of the National Trust gangsters"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 1909881716
- 9781909881716
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library