Erection date: 13/6/1953
Tavistock Square Gardens
This copper beech tree was presented by Pandit Nehru on his visit to these gardens on 13th June 1953 in connection with the donation by the St. Pancras Borough Council of a site for the erection of a statue to Mahatma Gandhi.
This plaque was recommissioned and unveiled by H.E. Dr. L.M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India on 30th January 1997.
WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pandit Nehru tree
Indian politician, instrumental in India's independence. Born as Mohandas Kar...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Pandit Nehru tree
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of M...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
The Cultural Section of the Italian Embassy is at 39 Belgrave Square. That may explain the location of this statue. Discovering London ha...
We've transcribed this inscription correctly and, being the pedants that we are, we have to query the position of the apostrophe. This is...
The RHS describes this tree: "Liquidambar are deciduous trees grown for their alternate, maple-like leaves which take on brilliant and lo...
There is another dedicated tree here but its main purpose is to blow Marks and Spencer's corporate trumpet so we decided against honourin...
In the low rockery on either side of the entrance at the south east corner. Normally there is a tree with this type of plaque but perhap...
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