This tree was planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early part of 2008 all three plaques were renovated and re-laid on identical plinths.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
Queen Elizabeth II. A London Inheritance's post 2nd June 1953 – Coronation D...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
City of Westminster London Memorial Garden Under these trees people of all ...
These memorials are in the garden in front of (to the south of) the almshouses.
NPL National Phusical Laboratory Liriodendron Tulipifera Tulip tree This tree was planted on 20th December 2002 by the Managing Director ...
Nice plaque but it, or the tree planted by the Duke, has been moved. All the nearby trees look far too mature to have been planted in 19...
In the low rockery on either side of the entrance at the south east corner. Normally there is a tree with this type of plaque but perhap...
Sculptor. We can't find evidence that this Brian Yale is the sculptor who died on 12 October 2009.
Born Whiston, near Rotherham. Architect & town planner. With his partner Barry Parker he designed Letchworth Garden City in 1903 and Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1907. Died in Connecticut, where ...
The carved doors are at the right of the building, behind the cyclist in our picture. According to Esoteric London these panels, listed ...
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