Tree

Epping Forest

Erection date: 26/11/2003

Inscription

Carpinus betulus 'Frans Fontaine'
26th November 2003
Planted by the Lord Mayor of London, Robert Finch and Sue Roe, OBE, Chairman of the Tree Council, commemorating 125th anniversary of Epping Forest Act 1878 and 30th anniversary of National Tree Planting Year (Plant a Tree in '73)

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 or what?

Site: Epping Forest Act (1 memorial)

EC2, Aldermanbury

The tree in question is not the twisty one in the foreground but one to its right and further back, and barely visible - it being a deciduous tree and this being a winter visit.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Epping Forest

Subjects commemorated i

Epping Forest Act 1878

The Epping Forest Act placed all the commons and forest in the parish of Eppi...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Epping Forest

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Tree Council

The Tree Council was founded in 1974 to keep up the momentum of 1973's Nation...

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Robert Finch

Robert Gerard Finch was born on 20 August 1944 in Ootacamund, India. (Now fre...

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Sue Roe, OBE

Chairman of the Tree Council in 2003

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