Westbury Court Gardens fell into disrepair and by the 1960s were in a very poor state. Saved by the National Trust too late to save the big house but the gardens and the tall pavilion could be restored. This is what it looked like some time in the early 1970s. There were a couple of tall (poplar?) trees at the back and the yew hedges had just been planted.
And this is what it looked like on the in April 2012. The huge tulip tree and the holm oak still looking much the same but the tall trees are gone. If you come back in ten years time the fear is that global warming will have acted to kill the yews. They are already being replaced by other hedging plants.
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