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Our History – Three Key People

January 23, 2019

The Open Spaces Society has been defending open spaces in England and Wales since 1865. Three key people have helped to make the Open Spaces Society what it is today William Morris – Open spaces champion William Morris (1834-96) is best known as an artist-designer: his textile and wallpaper patterns, such as ‘Willow’ (1874), ‘Snakeshead’…

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Robert Hunter where are you?

November 5, 2013

‘Sir Robert Hunter would have been horrified by the government’s assault on our green spaces.’ So said Kate Ashbrook, our general secretary, on the centenary of Robert Hunter’s death on 6 November.  Robert Hunter was solicitor to the Commons Preservation Society, as the Open Spaces Society was first known, some years before he went on…

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Sir Robert Hunter, 1844-1913

November 4, 2013

6 November 2013 is the centenary of the death of Robert Hunter, the society’s solicitor from 1868 to 1882. Robert Hunter was an early luminary of the Commons Preservation Society (CPS), as the Open Spaces Society was first known. He later became solicitor to the General Post Office and founded the National Trust. He was…

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