- Folly Fellowship
The Folly Fellowship is a society set up in 1988 as a pressure group to protect, preserve and promote awareness of Britain’s follies,
grottoes and garden buildings. It organises trips to follies and holds an annual garden party at a follied garden. Folly Fellowship members include architects, people who live in follies, people who build follies and other interested persons.The Folly Fellowship has recorded over 1,500 folly and grotto sites, and provided incentives to architects to create detailed plans suitable to be used to recreate these sites after they deteriorate. [cite news | url = http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/08/23/lnote.php | title = London Notebook : 2,000 Guineas for Folly | author = Eric Ipsen | work =
International Herald Tribune | date = 1993-08-23 | accessdate = 2007-02-04 ] . The Folly Fellowship claims it is impossible to clearly define the line between architectural extravagance and "true folly". The group states that usually a builder does not intend to craft a folly, but that this is not always true. For example, Lord Berner commented of his folly atFaringdon (Oxford): "The great point of this tower, is that it will be entirely useless."Fact|date=February 2007The Fellowship is regarded as an authority on follies. [cite journal | url = http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=9357&g9357=x&g9347=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x&amid=9357 | volume = 41 | issue = 3 | journal =
History Today | author = Cavendish, Richard | title = The Folly Fellowship | date = March 1991 | pages = Page 62–63 | accessdate = 2007-02-04 | format = dead link|date=June 2008 – [http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3A+intitle%3AThe+Folly+Fellowship&as_publication=%5B%5BHistory+Today%5D%5D&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=Search Scholar search] ] [cite news | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2003/04/15/phobbit16.xml | title = Life with the Flintstones | date = 2003-04-15 | work =The Daily Telegraph Property guide | accessdate = 2007-02-04 ] They are also the caretakers of some notable follies. [cite journal | url = http://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife/seasonal-strolls.htm#ss-bf | title = Brown's Folly | date = Autumn 2003 | journal = Wildlife,Avon Wildlife Trust | accessdate = 2007-02-04 ]References
5. The folly of others [http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/gardens/article2567192.ece] - "The Times" October 6 2007 6. Fabulous Follies [http://www.bbccountryfile.com/featureread.asp?id=35775] - "BBC Countryfile Nov 7 2007External links
* [http://www.follies.org.uk The Folly Fellowship website]
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