Russell Square Gardens
Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembrance of T. S. Eliot. Planted here by His Excellency Dr. L. M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom in the presence of The Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Cllr. S. N. Deshmukh and Mrs Valerie Eliot, 10th May 1996.
WC1, Russell Square
The tree is just inside the entrance to the garden at the south-east corner.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Poet and publisher. Born Saint Louis, Missouri as Thomas Stearns Eliot. His w...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh was elected to the London Borough of Camden as...
Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. Fro...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
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The tree itself is almost entirely lost, half buried in a modern planting scheme which gives priority to the high brick walls surrounding...
Surprisingly this is, so far, the only memorial to the royal Golden Wedding that we have found. Same with their Silver, at the Barbican. ...
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This tree is in the borough of Wandsworth. There are 32 Greater London boroughs, and this is the first Jefcoate tree that we have come ac...
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