Annette Fennessy tree
N1, Canonbury Square Gardens
The memorial does not provide enough information for us to be able to identify this woman, who could not have been older than 43 when she...
1 subject commemorated
Councillor's Walk
N15, Tottenham Green
We've transcribed this inscription correctly and, being the pedants that we are, we have to query the position of the apostrophe. This is...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Diamond Jubilee QEII - Jefcoate tree
SW11, Battersea Park
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...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Hiroshima tree - Furnivall Gardens
W6, Furnivall Gardens
This tree is a memorial to the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1 subject commemorated
1 subject commemorated
Coronation tree - Southwark Park
SE16, Southwark Park
This Chestnut tree was planted by the London County Council to commemorate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2nd June 1...
1 subject commemorated,
3 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 L...
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 v...
5 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 examin...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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