IAN Douglas Pollard, of Malmesbury, a former architect and developer, died on the 6 March 2019, at the age of 73.
As you may have heard Ian Pollard is very poorly in hospital. Unfortunately the company was not unaffected by the recession of the early 1990s, and Ian decided to take an extended sabbatical; and to focus his creativity and energies on transforming the gardens at Abbey House, where the family moved in 1994. Within five years, Ian and Martin transformed the grounds into an exquisite garden setting, with the Abbey as its backdrop, and they opened to the public in 1997.
Born to earnest means, Ian’s sheer determination and vision guided him on his own rags to riches story. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Ian Pollard, a property developer, and his wife Barbara, a former model, gained notoriety as the so-called naked gardeners after they bought Abbey House in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
He even modelled on the Paris catwalk for the designer Kansai.
The Kensington Homebase scheme (1988), with its Egyptian friezes and glazed facade, has been cited as one of the top 5 best post - modern buildings by Historic England. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Hopefully he will grow stronger day by day and his children thank you for your well wishes and comments. Ian wanted to make people smile, to brighten up their day, and to make work environments exciting and stimulating places to be. Both pragmatic and creative, and never one to shy away from controversy, he was truly a true ‘Renaissance’ man. It was one of the things that she said she was going to do when she came back. "To call me a womaniser is ludicrous.
Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Post modern architecture suited Ian well - what Ian and Flaxyard set out to do, was to give commercial architecture a monumental civic dimension, to make architecture ‘fun’ and thought provoking; following years of dull modernist architecture with no sense of place or time, they wanted to make something out of the ordinary - buildings to make you ‘stop and stare’ , even if it wasn’t always for all the right reasons. Ian has 1 job listed on their profile.
Tributes have been paid to a true Malmesbury legend who helped put the town on the map. It was in 1994 that Ian and his partner at that time, Barbara Haworth, moved to Abbey House, a Tudor-style estate built on 12th century foundations, which sits under the gaze of the medieval arch of the Malmesbury’s Abbey in Wiltshire. According to Ian, Barbara moved out, filed for divorce three months ago, but then moved back to the 12-bedroom property ten days ago when the lease on her rented home ran out. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Ian’s … View Ian Pollard’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please contact the editor here.
There, Ian and fellow gardener Martin Roberts worked ceaselessly to create a series of formal garden spaces, and a more naturalistic riverside garden. Ian suffered a devastating stroke in March 2015, which left him unable to walk. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here.
He worked during the summers climbing onto college rooftops to help the Cambridge Estates Department; whilst also giving tours of the colleges to guests from his grandmother’s lodging house. Ian said soon Barbara moved into another area of the house but they made a go of the marriage until last July when she attended a course at Glastonbury on 'family healing'.