Erection date: /4/2010
This apricot tree (Prunus armeniaca) serves as a memorial to the one and a half million victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
W5, Ealing Green
2009-10 there were ructions at Ealing Council as Armenian factions promoted the creation of this memorial and Turkish factions opposed. Flickr has some photos of the dedication ceremony. The tree was planted in April 2010 but the plaque came later, in April 2011.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Armenian Genocide
Inflicted by the Turkish government on the Armenian population of the Ottoman...
Bonus fact: in 1944 Jerry Springer was born in nearby Highgate tube station.
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...
Remembering our darling Holly. Her laughter, her joy, her love of life. 31.5.85 - 8.4.89
In the photo you can see 3 stone plaques on this wall. The low, middle one is weather-worn into illegibility. Lowe's tree is at the centr...
We deliberately captured the mega lawnmower in our photo. The driver had just clipped the grass all over this area, carefully avoiding t...
