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Coronation of King Edward VII - tree

NW6, West End Lane, West End Green

Borough of Hampstead. This tree was planted by the Mayor Mr. Alderman, C. F. Pritchard, 20th December 1902, in commemoration of the coronation of H...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators

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...

4 subjects commemorated, 2 creators

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...