Erection date: 28/11/1987
28th November 1987
The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Russell, planted the first replacement tree, a Ginkgo Biloba (Maidenhair Tree) in the Royal Borough's Open Spaces after the Great Storm of 16th October 1987. Three hundred and twenty trees were lost from these areas in one night of devastation.
W8, Holland Park
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Storm - Holland Park
In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Storm - Holland Park
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
This golden Indian bean catalpa tree, known also as a catalpa bignonioides aurea, was planted by the St James's Square Trust in honour of...
2015: we read that this horse chestnut has suffered rot and the Highgate Society has replaced it with a beech tree.
Roger Robinson's pictures shows him at the planting ceremony, 14 August 2005. The tree is an English Oak.
There is another dedicated tree here but its main purpose is to blow Marks and Spencer's corporate trumpet so we decided against honourin...
Golden-Barked Ash, Fraxinus excelsior Aurea. Planted in memory of Hugh & Margaret Casson, 2000.
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