Erection date: 13/6/1953
Tavistock Square Gardens
This copper beech tree was presented by Pandit Nehru on his visit to these gardens on 13th June 1953 in connection with the donation by the St. Pancras Borough Council of a site for the erection of a statue to Mahatma Gandhi.
This plaque was recommissioned and unveiled by H.E. Dr. L.M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India on 30th January 1997.
WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pandit Nehru tree
Indian politician, instrumental in India's independence. Born as Mohandas Kar...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Pandit Nehru tree
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of M...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
This rose garden was planted in 1947, just 5 years after the massacre. There is possibly also another plaque (that we missed) commemorati...
None of the nearby trees are oaks so we have to assume that the tree planted in 1996 has sadly not survived, which is ironic given the te...
Roger Robinson's pictures shows him at the planting ceremony, 14 August 2005. The tree is an English Oak.
2015: we read that this horse chestnut has suffered rot and the Highgate Society has replaced it with a beech tree.
Clare Sculpher, 1948 - 1986, from friends and colleagues. Magnolia amabilis
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