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...
The picture for the Westminster Tree Trust shows one of these trees being planted.
This tree was planted in memory of Elizabeth Croll, CMG, 1944 - 2007 for her devoted and distinguished service to SOAS, scholarship and C...
This rose garden was planted in 1947, just 5 years after the massacre. There is possibly also another plaque (that we missed) commemorati...
2009-10 there were ructions at Ealing Council as Armenian factions promoted the creation of this memorial and Turkish factions opposed. ...
Sadiq Khan attended the memorial ceremony held at the tree in 2018.
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