The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall

The Lost Gardens of Heligan - Toolshed

Heligan's tool shed, with its small collection of hand tools laid out on the workbench and larger items arranged on the walls and around the floor, offers a glimpse into a past devoid of electric and petrol-powered garden machinery.

Though mostly now antiques, these tools are well designed and manufactured to exacting standards. The Heligan staff have experimented with them and say that, in many cases, there is nothing available to match them today.