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Bird poo fuelled the First World War and also financed this manor house with a plant collection that rivals Kew
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Bird poo fuelled the First World War and also financed this manor house with a plant collection that rivals Kew
The Gibbs family fortune was made in shipping and banking — and an exclusive concession on extremely profitable Peruvian guano. (Guano is the accumulated nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium-rich waste of seabirds. It is one of the most powerful organic fertilisers in the world and helped to fuel the First World War thanks to its use as an ingredient in gunpowder.)When his father died, Henry 'Hucks' Gibbs joined the family business. In time, he w…
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