Tree

Nuclear bombs

Erection date: 9/8/1985

Inscription

This Japanese Acer Tree was planted by the Greater London Council and the Kensington and Chelsea Campaign to Save Democracy in London to commemorate the visit to the borough on 9th August 1985 of survivors of the nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 6th and 9th August 1945.

Standing together in peace we defeat all the evils of war.

After our first visit in 2015 it was only when we got the photo home that we saw there was another line of text, obscured by the grass. 2023 we returned and, while the tree was still there, we thought the plaque had been lost.  With our photos as a guide we eventually found the plaque buried under leaves and mud - and we got the last line.  It sounds like a quotation but we can't find it online anywhere.

Site: Nuclear bombs (1 memorial)

W8, Holland Park

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Holocaust / Holocaust Memorial Day

Events for this day (27 January every year) are organised by The Holocaust Me...

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors

The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Eno...

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Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...

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Kensington and Chelsea Campaign to Save Democracy in London

2015: we can find no record of this group, active in 1985.

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