The Tree Council was founded in 1974 to keep up the momentum of 1973's National Tree Planting Year - "Plant a Tree in '73". They ran the first National Tree Week in 1975 and in 2004 claimed that up to a million trees are planted each year as a result of National Tree Week, run each year in November.
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Tree Council
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Charlton House mulberry tree - 1
The Tree Council in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen El...
Epping Forest
The photograph we have found for Sue Roe and Robert Finch just happens to be ...
National Tree Week 1987
National Tree Week is an event which has been promoted by the Tree Council si...
Trees for Westminster
To celebrate Westminster City Council's Quatercentenary HRH the Duke of Kent,...
Other Subjects
St John's Clerkenwell graveyard & garden
In 1714 John Michele gave the ground to St John’s Church in St John’s Square for use as a graveyard. About 100 years later Rev. William Dawson arranged that the church donate the graveyard as a pub...
2 memorials
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 has a very useful map sho...
3 memorials
Hilary Peters
Peters took our a lease on the derelict wharf and a house on Ballast Quay in 1963. Here she created a communal riverside garden from which grew a landscape business, Union Wharf Nursery Garden. Pr...
1 memorial
Well Hall Pleasaunce
Wellehawe as an area in Eltham was first recorded in 1401. It still contains a Tudor barn built by William Roper, the son-in-law of Sir Thomas More. Another main feature, used to be Well Hall (pict...
2 memorials
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Charles Lamb
Born at 2 Crown Office Row, Inner Temple. Studied at Christ's Hospital where he became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Elia" is the pseudonym Lamb used for a series of essays he wrote for th...
7 memorials
Queen Victoria - Mill Street
W1, Mill Street
High up on a narrow street, this is the best photo we could manage. Her Maj. peers out of a roundel at fourth floor attic level on the Mi...
2 subjects commemorated
Bartlett Surgeon Accoucheur
WC1, Great Percy Street, 15
Bartlett Surgeon Accoucheur {French for obstetrician surgeon}
1 subject commemorated
Sir Robert Bellinger
Lord Mayor in 1967. Born Gloucestershire but brought up in Fulham. Left school aged 14 to work hard and go to college in the evenings. In the picture we think Bellinger is the man with the spade.
1 memorial
Hayhilll fountain
SE1, Lambeth Palace Road
{Carved in the marble surface at the back:} Erected to the memory of H. Hayhill by his friends in HM Exchequer and Audit Dept. 1882.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator