Tree

WB Yeats - tree

Erection date: 17/9/1997

Inscription

Friendship Tree
Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo biloba)
Planted by His Excellency Dr. L.M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India in the presence of Councillor Ray Adamson, Mayor of Camden.
Dedicated to the poetic genius of W. B. Yeats, on 17 September 1997.

Site: WB Yeats - tree (1 memorial)

WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens

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WB Yeats - tree

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W. B. Yeats

Poet and dramatist. Born in Dublin to John Butler Yeats.  A member of The Rhy...

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Councillor Ray Adamson, Mayor of Camden

Mayor of Camden, October 1997.

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Dr. L. M. Singhvi

High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...

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