Erection date: 13/6/1953
Tavistock Square Gardens
This copper beech tree was presented by Pandit Nehru on his visit to these gardens on 13th June 1953 in connection with the donation by the St. Pancras Borough Council of a site for the erection of a statue to Mahatma Gandhi.
This plaque was recommissioned and unveiled by H.E. Dr. L.M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India on 30th January 1997.
WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pandit Nehru tree
Indian politician, instrumental in India's independence. Born as Mohandas Kar...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Pandit Nehru tree
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of M...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
This rose garden was planted in 1947, just 5 years after the massacre. There is possibly also another plaque (that we missed) commemorati...
These trees are in memory of Basil Marsden Smedley, 1901 - 1964.
Tilla platyphyllos (broad leaved lime) planted by The Right Hon. The Lord Mayor Sir Hugh Wontner, CVO, D.Litt. On 8 February 1974 to comm...
This golden Indian bean catalpa tree, known also as a catalpa bignonioides aurea, was planted by the St James's Square Trust in honour of...
The plaque is in front of a tree stump, so that accounts for the "lost" tree but it is mid-way between a holly and a deciduous tree so it...
