David Bottomley is curating a project to collect memoirs of people who knew and worked with his late mother, Margaret Harrison, a Yorkshire woman who won the national competition to design costumes for the 1964 Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival of Twelfth Night.

He would be interested to hear from anyone who was involved in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival production of Twelfth Night in 1964 at Pendley Manor in Tring, for which she designed and made the costumes, directed by Dorian Williams and organised by John Holifield. Wardrobe mistress, Greta Morgan. Set design by Roger Bryson, a young architectural student. Anne Horne as Viola, Keith Chamberlin as Orsino, Caroline Odgers as Valentine, Rowan Chapman as Curio, Michael Evers as a Sea Captain, Peter Wellby as a Seaman, Penelope Willis as Maria, C.R.Evers as Sir Toby Belch, Brian Sanders as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Jennie Norwood as Olivia, Joanna Lodder as Lady in Waiting, Sandra Kettle as Attendant to Olivia, Roberta Morgan as Olivia's Page, Stuart Ready as Malvolio, Philip Dunn as Anotnio, David Rees as Sebastian, film director, Geoffrey Reeve as Feste, John Holifield as Fabian, Dorian Williams as Sir Topaz.

Gina Manly designed the costumes for Romeo and Juliet in the same season.

Anyone who was involved with the "Heidi" musical at The Masque Theatre, Tring, (Old Regal Cinema, Western Rd)) directors Liz Short, DA Johnson, IM Parker as a result of seeing her work on Twelfth Night asked Margaret to design costumes for their opening production of the musical “Heidi” in November 1965.

Based on information supplied by David Bottomley.