Russell Square Gardens
Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembrance of T. S. Eliot. Planted here by His Excellency Dr. L. M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom in the presence of The Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Cllr. S. N. Deshmukh and Mrs Valerie Eliot, 10th May 1996.
WC1, Russell Square
The tree is just inside the entrance to the garden at the south-east corner.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Poet and publisher. Born Saint Louis, Missouri as Thomas Stearns Eliot. His w...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. Fro...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
This Silver Maple tree (Acer saccharinum) was planted in 1973 in memory of Sir Edward Muir (1906 - 1973) President of the Royal College o...
The plaque to the Great Storm is rather hidden away in the flower bed behind and to the right of the statue.
From PMSA we learn: This tower was erected in 1913 in Burdett Road. That's now the main road running down the east side of Mile End Park....
National Tree Week is an event which has been promoted by the Tree Council since 1975.
When we visited in 2004 the tree was not there. The park was undergoing some major Lottery-funded work so we thought that perhaps the tre...
A charity run entirely by volunteers, which each week records local news taken from the Sutton Guardian, for blind and visually impaired people in the Borough of Sutton.
Cavell was executed by the Germans in Brussels and she figures on our sister site, BrusselsRemembers.
This house is on the corner of the street in which Ida Mann was born, Fordwych Road, number 67. She lived in Minster Road aged 9 - 41.
From Some Notes on the Ward of Aldgate (1904) "Messrs. SAMUEL TULL & Co., 12, Creechurch Lane, Rope, Line, Twine and Net Makers, established over 164 years. Originally at the sign of the "Peter...
Reggae musician. Saxophone and flute player. Played with Cliff And His Rhythm Ryders. Died London. No photos seem to be available so here's a record label instead.
