The website continues to be updated with improvements to layout (such as use of tabs on some new pages), usability, and of course, plenty of new material.  We mentioned the new guide recently, it’s been renamed more accurately the Website & Accessibility Guide, and updated.  Accessibility improvements include the elimination of the last few recalcitrant contrast errors and one or two missing screen-reader tags. 

There have been a couple of significant content additions recently, plus this year’s unfortunate necessity, the previously announced daily-updating H&F Covid-19 graph at the top of the Home Page.

Capability Brown Statue

Awards Map snapshot – click to visit the interactive version

Firstly, we’ve subsumed the content of the  original Capability Brown Statue website, created as part of the project led by former committee member Richard Jackson. It now has a permanent home in the history section.  There are photos of some of his landscapes, a section describing the project, the history and development of the statue itself, with a video of the unveiling, links to our news stories during the project, and for the record, a list of benefactors, of which this Society was one. 

Also noteworthy is the news that there’s a fundraising effort for a riverside sculpture of Virginia Woolf in Richmond, by the same sculptor, Laury Dizengremel.

Each history page now has a set of pictorial/excerpt links to the other history pages at its foot, or in the sidebar, and each page has seen a little TLC too. The history sidebar also now appears on our home page.

Secondly, ‘Lockdown 2’ has provided the time to complete of a longstanding project to map all Awards and Nominations since the start of the scheme in 1990. In reconfirming the postcodes and/or exact locations of all 133 records, some information was updated, and a photo or two refreshed. Click on the map image to explore the area interactively – each colour-coded map pin identifies the type of award and what we know about it, provides a link to a picture if available, and to the relevant year’s Awards page.  Perhaps we’ll create some local walks based on it – watch this space!

In Lockdown 2, we continue to post updates on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and add diary entries of interest to members. Please follow us on these platforms if you have an account, and keep an eye on the diary which is updated with new events at least weekly.