Tavistock Square

Tavistock Square is a public town square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.

Tavistock Square
Tavistock Square with BMA house on its right
NamesakeMarquess of Tavistock
LocationBloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Inner London

History

The area was where one of the 7/7 attacks took place, when Hassib Hussain exploded a bomb on a bus near Woburn Place. The explosion would kill 13 people.[1] This was the only bombing of the 4 bombings on that day that took place on a bus. The bus had went on a different route than usual because of the attacks earlier.[2]

Art
Gandhi statue

In the middle of the gardens is a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, made by Fredda Brilliant and put into the gardens in 1968. It is for people to leave flowers to remember him for his peaceful campaigning.[3]

A cherry tree was planted in 1967 to remember people who died to the nuclear bombings in Japan.[4]

The square contains a place to remember the doctor Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865 –1925), with a statue of Aldrich-Blake by Arthur George Walker planned out by Sir Edwin Lutyens.[5]

Images

References
  1. "7/7 bombings: Profiles of the four bombers who killed 52 people in the London attacks". The Independent. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. "7 July London bombings: What happened that day?". BBC News. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. "Cheltenham Town Hall 2". Antiques Roadshow. Series 35. Episode 19. 2013-04-14. BBC Television. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  4. "Peace Garden at Tavistock Square". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  5. "Memorial to Dame Louisa Aldrich Blake in Tavistock Square Gardens". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
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