This tree was planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early part of 2008 all three plaques were renovated and re-laid on identical plinths.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
Queen Elizabeth II.  A London Inheritance's post 2nd June 1953 – Coronation D...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
City of Westminster London Memorial Garden Under these trees people of all ...
In memory of Staff Nurse Sue Garner (1959 - 2001) from her friends and colleagues in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department, the Nationa...
28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell, planted the first replacement tree, a Ginkgo Biloba (Maide...
We were alerted to the existence of this tree, and its vandalisation, in June 2016, by an article in Marchmont News, from where comes the...
The photograph we have found for Sue Roe and Robert Finch just happens to be of them at this site planting this tree. Are we good to you ...
In the photo you can see 3 stone plaques on this wall. The low, middle one is weather-worn into illegibility. Lowe's tree is at the centr...
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