Bronze plaque № 54712

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# Bronze Plaque № 54712 - Strand and Villiers Street Standing at the junction of Strand and Villiers Street, where this bronze plaque marks the gate pillar, you're at the precise epicenter of London's most dramatic natural catastrophe of the modern era—the spot where the Great Storm of 1987 tore th...

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Gate pillar at junction of Strand and Villiers Street

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In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever. The Evening Standard launched a tree appeal and this English oak, placed here a year after the storm, is one of the many new trees paid for by its readers. It was planted by the City of Westminster on 16 October 1988.