Plaque Wording:
From William Wilberforce's diary, 1788. "I well remember after a conversation with Mr. Pitt in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice on a fit occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of the slave-trade."
Plaque Wording:
This avenue was replanted in November 1988 to replace trees destroyed by a hurricane during the night of 15/16 October 1987. Trees donated by The Heath & Old Hampstead Society, the Franklin Cole Foundation, Task Force Trees & Eric Woods Esq.
London Residuary Body
Plaque Wording:
This tree was planted by The Heath and Old Hampstead Society in its Centenary Year in memory of John Carswell (1918-1997) former chairman December 1997