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Albie Allen
Albie Allen was gardener to the Somerset Fire Brigade at Hestercombe House, near Taunton, from 1956 to 1971. He tended the Formal Garden by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll before its restoration from 1973 onwards.