Erection date: /11/1986
This tree was planted by Sir Yehudi Menuhin KBE to celebrate twenty years of the Highgate Society of which he was first President and then patron. November 1986.
N6, South Grove
2015: we read that this horse chestnut has suffered rot and the Highgate Society has replaced it with a beech tree.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Highgate Society & Menuhin
From the website: The Highgate Society was founded in 1966 by local people wh...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Highgate Society & Menuhin
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