Erection date: 28/9/2024
Fanny Wilkinson, 1855 - 1951, the first woman to become a professional garden designer in Britain, laid out these gardens in 1885 while working for the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association.
Unveiled by local resident and actor Tim McInnerny.
Source: On London.
WC1, Red Lion Square, Garden
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fanny Wilkinson stone
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It faci...
Fanny Rollo Wilkinson was the first professional female landscape designer in...
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Fanny Wilkinson stone
Site of the 13th century Hospital of St Anthony and of the French Protestant Church, demolished 1840. The Corporation of the City of London
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Unveiled on World Town Planning Day 2019 (8th November).
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