Leonard Woolf's Ceylon
WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens
We have not followed all the various Sri Lankan lines of research opened up by the rather exotic text on this plaque. The importance of Leonard Woo...
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Fawcett house - Vauxhall
SW8, Vauxhall Park
We're not experts so we'll accept that the tree is a mulberry. And the tree engraved on the plaque - we'll accept that that is an older version of ...
4 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Basil Marsden Smedley - Dovehouse Street
SW3, Dovehouse Street
These trees are in memory of Basil Marsden Smedley, 1901 - 1964.
1 subject commemorated
Sydney Albert Harding
SW1, Denbigh Street and St George's Drive
Shortly after we published, our colleague, Andrew Behan, spotted that we'd misread Harding's birth year. We had 1919 but on closer examination it's...
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Kensington Town Hall - Royal Golden Wedding
W8, Hornton Street
Surprisingly this is, so far, the only memorial to the royal Golden Wedding that we have found. Same with their Silver, at the Barbican. This tree...
3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
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Joaquim Nabuco
Born: 19/8/1849, 170 years ago
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Literature, Brazil, USA
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