John Hatchard Royal Horticultural Society

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# 187 Piccadilly Standing before this elegant Piccadilly address, you're looking at the birthplace of an institution that would shape how Britain gardens for centuries to come. On 7th March 1804, within the walls of what was then Hatchard's bookshop—itself already a flourishing hub of intellectual ...

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187 Piccadilly

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At Messrs. Hatchard's in a house on this site the Royal Horticultural Society was founded on the 7th March 1804