Tree

Castle Baynard Ward Club

Freemasons, YMCA & Castle Baynard Ward Club Castle Baynard Ward Club

Erection date: 8/12/2009

Inscription

Planted by the Chairman of the Castle Baynard Ward Club, Professor Anthony Trinick FREng, 8th December 2009, to commemorate the Centenary of the Club in 2009.

Site: Freemasons, YMCA & Castle Baynard Ward Club (3 memorials)

EC4, St Paul's Churchyard

The two plaques face each other, on the inside walls of the arcade. The Castle Baynard tree is the one to the right in the photo.

2019: A London Inheritance has a post about the building that was on this site up until WW2, the offices, factory and warehouses of Hitchcock, Williams & Co.. The firm moved into number 72 sometime after 1853 and then expanded to take in many of the surrounding buildings. The buildings were destroyed by bombs on 29 December 1940.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Castle Baynard Ward Club

Subjects commemorated i

Castle Baynard Ward Club (centenary)

Founded by Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater. Initially intended to protect the ...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Castle Baynard Ward Club

Created by i

Professor Anthony Trinick

FREng. Chairman of the Castle Baynard Ward Club in 2009.

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Castle Baynard Ward Club

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Freemasons

Freemasons

Corporation of the City of London Near this site the Grand Lodge of English ...

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YMCA

YMCA

Williams was working as a buyer at Hitchcock, Rogers & Co., a large retai...

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Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl

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Peace tree

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New River Path Canonbury gardens

New River Path Canonbury gardens

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Nirmal Roy

Nirmal Roy

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1 subject commemorated