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 ...
The trees with these 4 Ealing Council plaques are all on the section of path in the photo.
This is actually one of a pair of these stunning trees, the other being just outside our photo, to the left. It has no plaque or any indi...
The LCC began in March 1889 so this tree commemorates 50 years. The only reference we can find to a celebration of this jubilee is a refe...
The millennium tree (in 2008 still a sapling) is in front of the half-timbered wall. The two yews commemorating the 850th anniversary are...
2015: we read that this horse chestnut has suffered rot and the Highgate Society has replaced it with a beech tree.
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