Erection date: /4/2010
This apricot tree (Prunus armeniaca) serves as a memorial to the one and a half million victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
W5, Ealing Green
2009-10 there were ructions at Ealing Council as Armenian factions promoted the creation of this memorial and Turkish factions opposed. Flickr has some photos of the dedication ceremony. The tree was planted in April 2010 but the plaque came later, in April 2011.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Armenian Genocide
Inflicted by the Turkish government on the Armenian population of the Ottoman...
The modern red brick building to the right, behind the tree, houses the offices of Islington Council.
The millennium tree (in 2008 still a sapling) is in front of the half-timbered wall. The two yews commemorating the 850th anniversary ar...
We're not experts so we'll accept that the tree is a mulberry. And the tree engraved on the plaque - we'll accept that that is an older v...
In loving memory of Scott Lee McGinley, 03 March 1972 - 12 July 2003.
There is another dedicated tree here but its main purpose is to blow Marks and Spencer's corporate trumpet so we decided against honourin...
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