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St James's Square Trust

Categories: Gardens / Agriculture

From the Picture source website: "... the St James’s Square Trust is intent on preserving tranquility and avoiding the incursion of large, disruptive commercial ventures in the Square. The gardens are not publicly funded, but depend on financial support from the building freeholders in the Square."

That website also has a History page which starts in March 1661 when the Earl of St. Albans acquired a freehold on St James’s Field and set about laying out the Square.

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St James's Square Trust

Creations i

Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee tree - SW1

This golden Indian bean catalpa tree, known also as a catalpa bignonioides au...

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Yvonne Fletcher tree

This tree was planted in memory of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, 17th April 1984, by t...

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Other Subjects

Croydon Road Recreation Ground

Croydon Road Recreation Ground

The land was purchased by the Beckenham Local Board to provide a public open space which had been lacking since the loss of the Fair Field for housing in the 1870s. The site was part of open farmla...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture, Transport

1 memorial
Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper

Physician, botanist, herbalist, astrologer and writer. Probably born at Ockley, Surrey. In about 1635 left Cambridge and came to London. This was prompted by the death of his intended. On her way t...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Science

1 memorial
Harkness Roses

Harkness Roses

Rose growing company, founded in Yorkshire by brothers John and Robert Harkness, and still run as a family firm.

Group, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial

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Boy 1st Class Albert Edward Winstone

Boy 1st Class Albert Edward Winstone

Albert Edward Winstone was born on 1 September 1901 in Hawthorn Grove, Penge, the youngest of the seven children of George Henry Winstone (1863-1931) and Jane Elizabeth Winstone née Reeves (1865-19...

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Robert & Horace Walpole

Robert & Horace Walpole

SW1, Arlington Street, 5

Greater London Council Sir Robert Walpole, 1676 - 1745, Prime Minister, and his son Horace Walpole 1717 - 1797, connoisseur and man of l...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Joseph Priestley - E5

Joseph Priestley - E5

E5, Lower Clapton Road, 113, 117

The house was demolished in 1880 and we have failed to find a picture of it. At the time this section of street may have been called Cla...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator