Russell Square Gardens
Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembrance of T. S. Eliot. Planted here by His Excellency Dr. L. M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom in the presence of The Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Cllr. S. N. Deshmukh and Mrs Valerie Eliot, 10th May 1996.
WC1, Russell Square
The tree is just inside the entrance to the garden at the south-east corner.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Poet and publisher. Born Saint Louis, Missouri as Thomas Stearns Eliot. His w...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh was elected to the London Borough of Camden as...
Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. Fro...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
Marvell wrote 'The Garden', the poem which is quoted here.
There is a clock dial on each of the four facades, and they are all working - August 2004 anyway. Above each dial is inscribed "1895". B...
Guite MacKay (Margaret Anderson) 1924 - 1991. A Canadian who loved living in London.
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...
Our second attempt at photographing this house, no better than the first. We are always there on very sunny days and either get glare or...
It's odd that the plaque is placed here rather than at the almshouses at the other end of the road. Possibly the Count had a house here,...
Londonist gives a deliciously grim description of the process of being hung, drawn and quartered. This plaque gives a contemporary view ...
Businessman. Founder of the John Jaques and Son Toy Company, which produced and patented ping pong equipment. See also Jaques of London.
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