It was intended to be a temporary move so that her father could establish a factory in Birmingham, but their plans changed and they stayed in England.

Her younger sister, Elinor Wight Gardner, as a leading British geologist.

They toured into Keswick, Bridlington and the north of England and they would give talks about women's suffrage.

[3] In the 1942 Birthday Honours Gardner was awarded an OBE for her work in the civil service.

She persuaded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to take more interest and as a result the Wind and Watermill Section in 1946.

[5] Gardner died in Chichester on 8 April 1959 after a minor operation at the local hospital.