Rather than risk life and limb in trying to get to the central reservation, we have borrowed a photograph. The latin name Quercus Robur translates as 'hardy oak'. The cultivar 'Fastigiata' is different from the rest of the group in that it only grows to between ten and fifteen metres high. We are unable to determine any symbolic link between this tree and Lionism.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Cypress Oak
{Beside a badge with the text: ' L Lions International, We Serve' Cypress Oak...
From London Gardens Online: The land here was open fields until the C18th when it was purchased by the Trustees of Guy's Hospital for use as a burial ground for deceased patients. It continued as a...
Leased by John Evelyn from Charles II in 1663 and trashed by Peter the Great in 1698. The picture source gives a full history of the house which was badly damaged in WW2 and demolished in 1947. T...
The Regent's Park plaque has the date of birth as 1794 but this contradicts all the other sources we have found, which have 1793. Nesfield was a significant Victorian garden designer who had a rep...
Entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. Born at Rothamsted, Hertfordshire. He founded an experimental farm that eventually became the Rothamsted Experimental Station, and developed a superphosphat...
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Thomas Stephen Dulley was born in 1821 in Putney, the fifth of the eleven children of Henry Dulley (1771-1846) and Tomzon Dicker Dulley née Stephens...
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