Coronation tree - Southwark Park
SE16, Southwark Park
This Chestnut tree was planted by the London County Council to commemorate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2nd June 1...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
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
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
SW3, Dovehouse Street
These trees are in memory of Basil Marsden Smedley, 1901 - 1964.Â
1 subject commemorated
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
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
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
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
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
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
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