The Tree Council was founded in 1974 to keep up the momentum of 1973's National Tree Planting Year - "Plant a Tree in '73". They ran the first National Tree Week in 1975 and in 2004 claimed that up to a million trees are planted each year as a result of National Tree Week, run each year in November.
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Charlton House mulberry tree - 1
The Tree Council in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen El...
Epping Forest
The photograph we have found for Sue Roe and Robert Finch just happens to be ...
National Tree Week 1987
National Tree Week is an event which has been promoted by the Tree Council si...
Trees for Westminster
To celebrate Westminster City Council's Quatercentenary HRH the Duke of Kent,...
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Fred Cleary
Member of the City of London Court of Common Council 1959-84, Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, pastmaster of the Company of Gardeners and a leading light in the many gardens...
1 memorial
Conservators of the River Thames / Thames Conservancy
Came into being as a result of the Thames Conservancy Act,1857. Completed the building of Teddington Lock. Lost some of its responsibilities in 1909 to the Port of London Authority and in 1974 the ...
3 memorials
William Curtis Ecological Park
The William Curtis Ecological Park was the United Kingdom's first urban ecology park. Max Nicholson and the Trust for Urban Ecology (created at the same time, by Nicholson) created it on a derelict...
1 memorial
River Tyburn
Covered over in 1750 but still running, underground from Hampstead to Westminster. One of its sources is at Shepherd's Well. Diamond Geezer has tracked the entire course. LondonMyLondon shows it,...
4 memorials
Great Forest of Essex
Since about 1000 various areas have been designated 'forest' meaning a royal hunting ground, not necessarily wooded. At different times, under different monarchs part or all of the County of Essex...
1 memorial
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World War 2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
376 memorials
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
John Hunter
Pioneer anatomist and surgeon. Born in East Kilbride, Scotland. He left school at the age of 13 and after an unremarkable childhood, journeyed south to London to work as a dissector for his brother...
8 memorials
Tessa Jowell
MP, Minister in the Blair / Brown governments 1997-2010. Born Marylebone. Her Wikipedia page gives much information about her life and together with her obituary confirms that she died, aged 70 ye...
1 memorial
David Davies
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
1 memorial
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