Angus McGill bronze plaque
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Connection to This Location
# The Junction of Memory and Renewal Standing at this windswept corner where the Strand meets Villiers Street, you're standing at the crossroads where Angus McGill's journalistic conscience met London's greatest natural disaster. When the Great Storm of 1987 devastated the city's urban forest—uproo...
Location
Junction of Strand and Villiers Street
Inscription
This plaque was installed in 2017, on the 30th anniversary of the Great Storm. It commemorates Angus McGill, who initiated the appeal to replace London's lost trees and the planting of the oak nearby. McGill died in 2015 after 42 years as a columnist with the Evening Standard, and creator of the Clive and Augusta strip cartoons. He was named Descriptive Writer of the Year 1968, and appointed MBE 1990.