The third dressing celebrates Sir Joseph Paxton, and was created by adults throughout the village. Sir Joseph Paxton was one of the most remarkable men of the 19th Centry, becoming the head gardener of Chatsworth at age 23, with no formal education.
Visitors to Chatsworth were astonished by the enormous glass house and ambitious water works he built, as well as the collection of orchids, the largest in all England, the dwarf banas, the giant lilly and the plants and trees brought back from around the world.
Paxton also created the model village of Edensor on the Chatsworth Estate, much as we see it today. However, it was the Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition in 1851 that secured Paxton's fame. His design, initially doodled on a piece of blotting paper, was the architectural triumph of its time.
He later became the MP for Coventry, and although he died in Sydenham London, close to his Crystal Palace, he lies alongside his wife Sarah, buried in Edensor churchyard at Chatsworth.
