This is the millionth tree of the Countryside Commission's Task Force Tree Programme, Following the October 1987 Storm. Planted in April 1990 by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, FRS, MP.
SW1, Victoria Embankment Gardens
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Millionth Tree - Victoria Embankment Gardens
In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East ...
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Millionth Tree - Victoria Embankment Gardens
Prime Minister: 1979 - 1990. Born Grantham. MP for Finchley: 1959 - 1992. A M...
We've transcribed this inscription correctly and, being the pedants that we are, we have to query the position of the apostrophe. This is...
When we visited in 2004 the tree was not there. The park was undergoing some major Lottery-funded work so we thought that perhaps the tre...
28th November 1987 The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell, planted the first replacement tree, a Ginkgo Biloba (Maide...
This tree is in the borough of Wandsworth. There are 32 Greater London boroughs, and this is the first Jefcoate tree that we have come ac...
School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London. The building on the right is by Lasdun. The young trees at the...
John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865) and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...
Member of the Fishmongers Company. Elected Treasurer in 1699. Primewarden in 1724. Will dated 26 February 1741.
Cornetist and trumpeter. Born in Great Yarmouth. When he was in the merchant navy, he jumped ship in Mobile, Alabama and travelled to New Orleans where he joined the George Lewis band. He was event...
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