Erection date: 17/9/1997
Friendship Tree
Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo biloba)
Planted by His Excellency Dr. L.M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India in the presence of Councillor Ray Adamson, Mayor of Camden.
Dedicated to the poetic genius of W. B. Yeats, on 17 September 1997.
WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
WB Yeats - tree
Poet and dramatist. Born in Dublin to John Butler Yeats. A member of The Rhy...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
WB Yeats - tree
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
The quotations are from Gibran's The Prophet. The tree is decorated with plastic jewellery and key-rings, many with "Stephanie" or "Penny".
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.
The scholars are on the central facade of the building: boy to left, girl to right, with the British Royal coat of arms between. Above th...
Sadiq Khan attended the memorial ceremony held at the tree in 2018.
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