Erection date: 7/7/1973
Lord Porchester, chairman South East Planning Council, planted this tree, July 7th 1973.
It would have helped if the plaque had said what the tree was commemorating.
E8, Mare Street, Hackney Town Hall
The plaque is behind the seated lady - we couldn't very well ask her to move.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lord Porchester tree
Racing Manager to Queen Elizabeth from 1969 until his death.  A very close fr...
The RHS describe this conifer as: "'Lutea' is a loosely conical tree with a rather bushy habit, the young foliage light yellow, becoming ...
The tree is just inside the entrance to the garden at the south-east corner.
Shortly after we published, our colleague, Andrew Behan, spotted that we'd misread Harding's birth year. We had 1919 but on closer examin...
Since 1950 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) has organised an annual ceremony at this cherry tree, in August.
In the film the year on the plaque is slightly obscured and looks more like "1942" but surely the event must have taken place after the e...
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