This plaque celebrates the restoration of the Avenue Gardens between 1993 & 1996. These gardens were designed by William Andrews Nesfield, 1794 - 1881 & created between 1863 & 1865.
The people in the picture standing on the plaque are doing the obligatory circular walk to read the inscription.
Plaque carved by Richard Kindersley in 1996.
NW1, Regent's Park, Broad Walk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Garden restoration
The Regent's Park plaque has the date of birth as 1794 but this contradicts a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Garden restoration
Sculptor and lettering artist, following his father's David's path. Other Lo...
Henry Cotton, 1907 - 1987, champion golfer, lived here. English Heritage
We have found that the plaque was unveiled by the Mayor of Greenwich, but there is no indication that Greenwich Council actually erected it.
Greater London Council R.H. Tawney, 1880 - 1962, historian, teacher and political writer, lived here.
English Heritage Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, 1881-1959, statesman, Viceroy of India and foreign secretary, lived here.
