SIR FREDERICK GIBBERD produced a wide variety of architectural and landscaping projects, including Heathrow Airport, Liverpool Catholic Cathedral, Regent's Park Central Mosque and the landscape design of the Kielder Reservoir. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1969. Part of his own collection of water colours, including works by John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore, was donated by him to Harlow and is now exhibited in the Gibberd Gallery in the Harlow Civic Centre.

In 1946 he was appointed master-planner for Harlow New Town, and his original plan for the town is regarded by many as his greatest achievement. Sir Frederick lived in Harlow from 1956 to his death in 1984, and during the latter years of his life he and the late Lady Gibberd developed the Garden and installed many works of sculpture, pots and architectural salvage.

The Gibberd Garden Trust has recently published a book about the garden, entitled 'Sir Frederick Gibberd and his Garden'. Developed in collaboration with the late Lady Gibberd, it has sections on the history and development of the Garden, a brief biography of Sir Frederick with details of some of the many buildings he designed, and an account of the work of the Trust.

There are six full-page colour illustrations, thirty-six other colour pictures, four full-page reproductions of Sir Frederick's own drawings and plans, and thirteen archive photographs in black & white of his most notable projects.

The text is clear and informative and the book is available at £3.00 from the Garden. To order by post, please send a cheque payable to the Gibberd Garden Trust, for £4.00 (including packing and psotage) to The Gibberd Garden Trust, Marsh Lane, Gilden Way, Harlow, CM17 oNA.