Tree

Highgate Society & Menuhin

Erection date: /11/1986

Inscription

This tree was planted by Sir Yehudi Menuhin KBE to celebrate twenty years of the Highgate Society of which he was first President and then patron. November 1986.

Site: Highgate Society & Menuhin (1 memorial)

N6, South Grove

2015: we read that this horse chestnut has suffered rot and the Highgate Society has replaced it with a beech tree.

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Highgate Society & Menuhin

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Highgate Society

From the website: The Highgate Society was founded in 1966 by local people wh...

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Highgate Society & Menuhin

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Sir Yehudi Menuhin

Born in New York, child of recent immigrants, achieved fame as a violinist at...

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