The Blackden Trust houses gooseberry archives
 

March 2008

We have been asked to house artefacts and archives of the Cheshire Gooseberry Societies. The collection will include a record of the prize-winning cultivars raised from seed by Frank Carter.

Frank was born in Toad Hall and lived all his married life, within quarter a mile of his birthplace, at Blackden Firs. He developed seventeen new gooseberry cultivars. All were grown from seed on Blackden soil.

John Hudson has been commissioned  to create a commemorative ceramic plate, the Frank Carter Memorial plate, to be awarded for the heaviest Premier Berry shown at Goostrey Gooseberry Society Show.  The plate will be awarded each year.