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Leonard Woolf's Ceylon

Leonard Woolf's Ceylon

WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens

We have not followed all the various Sri Lankan lines of research opened up by the rather exotic text on this plaque. The importance of L...

4 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Fawcett house - Vauxhall

Fawcett house - Vauxhall

SW8, Vauxhall Park

We're not experts so we'll accept that the tree is a mulberry. And the tree engraved on the plaque - we'll accept that that is an older v...

5 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Basil Marsden Smedley - Dovehouse Street

Basil Marsden Smedley - Dovehouse Street

SW3, Dovehouse Street

These trees are in memory of Basil Marsden Smedley, 1901 - 1964. 

1 subject commemorated
Sydney Albert Harding

Sydney Albert Harding

SW1, Denbigh Street and St George's Drive

Shortly after we published, our colleague, Andrew Behan, spotted that we'd misread Harding's birth year. We had 1919 but on closer examin...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Kensington Town Hall - Royal Golden Wedding

Kensington Town Hall - Royal Golden Wedding

W8, Hornton Street

Surprisingly this is, so far, the only memorial to the royal Golden Wedding that we have found. Same with their Silver, at the Barbican. ...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Kensington Town Hall - Churchill

Kensington Town Hall - Churchill

W8, Hornton Street

The Sequoiadendron giganteum, otherwise known as the Giant Redwood, was discovered by Europeans in California in 1833. More pictures at R...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
David Gay

David Gay

SW1, Smith Square, St John's

Designed by Thomas Archer this church was built in 1728, one of the Queen Anne churches. The church yard was designed by Fanny Wilkinson....

1 subject commemorated
D-Day Tree

D-Day Tree

W1, Grosvenor Square

These 4 plaques, each about 7" (we didn't actually measure them) are laid into the 4 corners of the metal tree-pit cover around the Ginkg...

2 subjects commemorated
Great Storm - Holland Park

Great Storm - Holland Park

W8, Holland Park

28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell, planted the first replacement tree, a Ginkgo Biloba (Maide...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Lidice

Lidice

E8, Mare Street, Lidice Rose Garden

This rose garden was planted in 1947, just 5 years after the massacre. There is possibly also another plaque (that we missed) commemorati...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
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