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The British Garden

September 11, 2011
New York City, New York

The British Garden at Hanover Square is a New York City park, a gift to the City of New York and its people from the Anglo-American community and its friends.

The Garden is privately run by The British Garden Memorial Trust, Inc., and is located near Ground Zero. It was created to honour the British victims of the September 11 attacks and to celebrate the historic ties of friendship and unity between the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Garden features City of London style bollards, paving quarried in Scotland and Wales and benches produced in England that were completed in Northern Ireland.

The center stone of the Garden was dedicated on November 1, 2005, by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales (the Garden's Royal Patron) and the Duchess of Cornwall.

The Garden was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2010. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the British Memorial Garden Trust extended an invitation to recognize the Canadian, Australian and other Commonwealth victims of the September 11 attacks in the memorial. The Garden will be appropriately renamed to recognize this expansion.

Each year on September 11, The British Garden holds a memorial concert event attended by families of victims, related key figures, and the general public.

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