A look at the humble Greenhouse. It sits quietly in our gardens protecting our plants from whatever the weather throws at us, but did you ever wonder how it developed?
I take a look into the history, and one man’s love for how light and glass work together. he set about improving the glass house, from the heavily built wooden frame with little glass to designing the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851. He came from a poor farming family to become, as Charles Dickens described him. “The Busiest Man in England.”

Jeremy’s Yorkshire Allotment Adventures
