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...
Roger Robinson's pictures shows him at the planting ceremony, 14 August 2005. The tree is an English Oak.
Surprisingly this is, so far, the only memorial to the royal Golden Wedding that we have found. Same with their Silver, at the Barbican. ...
For Maria Donohoe who touched our lives and made us smile.
28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell, planted the first replacement tree, a Ginkgo Biloba (Maide...
2015: we read that this horse chestnut has suffered rot and the Highgate Society has replaced it with a beech tree.
The plaques are on the King's Cross side of St Pancras station, inside the entrance, in the area immediately behind the arches.
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