This plaque celebrates the restoration of the Avenue Gardens between 1993 & 1996. These gardens were designed by William Andrews Nesfield, 1794 - 1881 & created between 1863 & 1865.
The people in the picture standing on the plaque are doing the obligatory circular walk to read the inscription.
Plaque carved by Richard Kindersley in 1996.
NW1, Regent's Park, Broad Walk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Garden restoration
The Regent's Park plaque has the date of birth as 1794 but this contradicts a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Garden restoration
Sculptor and lettering artist, following his father's David's path. Other Lo...
We thank Matt Brown of Londonist for the photo of the plaque, taken in about 2007. Recently both we and Matt have, separately, failed to ...
Greater London Council Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of lawn tennis, lived here.
At the time gilded lettering incised into granite was a popular technique. We can't say what it was like when new but its legibility has ...
The North Star, 104 Finchley Road. The North Star was built in 1850 as one of the first buildings to grace the new Finchley Road. This hi...
In 1997, as a condition of developing the RNH site, Bellway Homes (the developer) was required to create one acre of public open space - ...
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