Erection date: 19/11/1981
The Mountbatten Copse
These flowering trees, planted 19 November 1981 by HRH The Prince of Wales KG, Commodore Royal Thames Yacht Club, commemorate Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Commodore 1946 - 1970, Admiral 1970 to 1979.
This memorial was planted just over two years after the violent death of Mountbatten.
SW1, South Carriage Drive
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mountbatten Copse
Admiral of the Fleet. 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Grandson of Queen Victor...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mountbatten Copse
Oldest royal yacht club in the UK (which raises the question of how many are ...
One-time patron of the Goon Show Preservation Society. On the death of his m...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
We took a (very bad) photo of this plaque some years ago. The theatre was closed at the time, but the plaque could be seen in the foyer, ...
Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart. OM, 1860 - 1937, novelist, dramatist and creator of 'Peter Pan', lived in a house on this site, 1885 - 18...
Built for the Salvation Army in 1910. Their Women's Social Work HQ moved here in 1911 from offices at another nearby Salvation Army addr...
The plaque can be seen in our photo, directly above the A-Board.
The first bridge at this site was built by John Rennie and named following British victory at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. The 1831 demolition of the old medieval London Bridge caused changes in t...
When we found this touching memorial we wanted to know more: the names of the three babies who died; the home they had lived in and the r...
In memory of the young people who died as a result of the New Cross fire 18th January 1981 The names of those remembered Patrick Cummings...
Unveiling page tells that the sarsen stone was donated by a farmer in the Avebury area of Wiltshire. We cannot explain the "MEC" - perhap...
"The munificence of his benefactions" - we just don't write plaques like that anymore.
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