The 80th anniversary of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 was remembered in a ceremony in Tavistock Square, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, when a new cherry tree was planted – Prunus ‘Kanzan,’ the same variety of cherry as the previous tree.

The cherry tree, originally planted in 1967 by the Mayor of Camden in memory of the terrible event, had recently been attacked by fungus and had reached the end of its life; it was removed earlier in the summer.

The gardens, which also contain a stone memorial for Conscientious Objectors erected in 1994 and a bust of Virginia Woolf (an interwar pacifist), are now regarded as a Peace Garden and a space for tranquil contemplation.