Picture Gallery Seven GILBERT WHITE by Ivor G Roberts CPAGB - Sequence length 5m 16s A sequence resulting from a visit to 'The Wakes' at Selborne, Hampshire. This house and garden was the former home of Gilbert White, a curate who repeatedly refused promotion to avoid leaving his beloved village and the house and garden where he had lived as a child. He developed the grounds and gardens and from 1751 he began keeping methodical records of the main events in his horticultural life and observations of the wildlife in his garden. His methods have influenced naturalists up to the present day. In 1789 he produced his famous book, 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne'. In 1955 an attempt to preserve 'The Wakes' as a memorial to Gilbert was in difficulties but a descendant of Captain Oates, who perished with Captain Scott in the Antarctic, stepped in and set up a trust which now owns and manages the property as a museum that commemorates both Gilbert White and Captain Lawrence Oates. In the nearby church Gilbert is gratefully remembered in several windows. The original images were slides. To take full advantage of the new WAVES projector they were cropped to 1620px x 1080px. The background music uses two extracts from the King Arthur Suite by Henry Purcell.   PICTURE 7-1   PICTURE 7-2   PICTURE 7-3 PICTURE 7-4   PICTURE 7-5   PICTURE 7-6 PICTURE 7-7   PICTURE 7-8   PICTURE 7-9