Countryside Commission's Task Force Tree Programme
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Task Force Trees
Creations i
Avenue of trees - Hampstead Heath
This avenue was replanted in November 1988 to replace trees destroyed by a hu...
Millionth Tree - Victoria Embankment Gardens
This is the millionth tree of the Countryside Commission's Task Force Tree Pr...
Other Subjects
Queens Wood, Highgate
50 acres. Prompted by a campaign led by Henry Reader Williams Hornsey Council purchased Queen's Wood (then called Churchyard Bottom Wood) in 1898 for "the free use of the public forever". The cha...
St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, churchyard garden
Churchyard closed for burials and given to the Vestry of Bermondsey on 17 May 1882, it was opened to the public on 28 February 1883.
David Norman
Businessman and management consultant. He has held posts at many companies, and has been chairman of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. This photo comes from the Kew A...
Person, Commerce, Dance, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Metropolitan Public Gardens Association
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It facilitated the creation of new public open spaces. First chairman was the Earl of Meath. In about 1890 the MPGA was based a...
Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture, Philanthropy
The Crown Estate
Some of these plaques have an 'R' representing Regent Street which was (2024 defunct) a Crown Estate website promoting Regent Street as a shopping destination. Wikipedia had (2025: the map is no ...
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Fireman Colin Comber
Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Peter Brian O'Connell Hutchins, to locate the s...
Joseph Simms at St John's
EC1, St John's Lane, 33, Watchmaker Court
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date. We've taken the dates on each plaque to be date of birth and date of death bu...
Marylebone Assoc. for Improving the Dwellings of the Ind. Classes
NW1, Lisson Grove, 111
We cannot explain what this plaque is doing here. The MAIDIC is mentioned in the London Gazette of 12/6/1928 in connection with the land...
Well-head from House of Commons
NW3, Antrim Grove, Antrim Gardens
This plaque is affixed to the top of the stonework of the well-head. Andrew Behan found two Lionel Barnetts living in the Hampstead area...
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