Qualla: Tavistock Square https://qualla.com/tavistock-square en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tavistock-square-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tavistock Square https://qualla.com/tavistock-square Tavistock Square: Introduction https://qualla.com/tavistock-square/ Photo credit CVB, CC BY-SA 4.0. A cherry tree stands in Tavistock Square's garden. It was planted in 1967 in memory of the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each spring it blossoms. Each August, at ceremonies marking the anniversary of those bombings, people gather beneath it. The square has accumulated meaning this way—layer by layer, memorial by memorial—until it has become something rarer than a pleasant Bloomsbury garden. It has become a place where grief is tended.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tavistock-square-wp/gcpv-tavistock-square-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tavistock Square: Built on a Duke's Estate https://qualla.com/tavistock-square/ Photo credit Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0. Tavistock Square was laid out shortly after 1806 by the property developer James Burton and builder Thomas Cubitt, working for Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford. It formed part of the Bedford Estate, the great landholding that shaped much of Bloomsbury's grid. The name comes f...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tavistock-square-wp/gcpv-tavistock-square-built-on-a-dukes-estate.mp3 0:06 2 full Tavistock Square: The Square as Peace Garden https://qualla.com/tavistock-square/ Photo credit Vernon39, Public domain. Three monuments have given the square its unofficial character as a peace garden. Gandhi stands at the centre, sculpted by Fredda Brilliant and installed in 1968. The hollow pedestal is deliberately open at the base so that visitors can leave floral tributes to the man who led no...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tavistock-square-wp/gcpv-tavistock-square-the-square-as-peace-garden.mp3 0:06 3 full Tavistock Square: 7 July 2005 https://qualla.com/tavistock-square/ Photo credit Ziko van Dijk, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the morning of 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers attacked London's transport network simultaneously. Three detonated devices on Underground trains. The fourth, 18-year-old Hasib Hussain, was on a bus—route 30, diverted from its normal Euston Road route because of the disruptio...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/tavistock-square-wp/gcpv-tavistock-square-7-july-2005.mp3 0:06 4 full Tavistock Square: Bloomsbury's Institutional Heart https://qualla.com/tavistock-square/ Photo credit Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0. Beyond its memorials, Tavistock Square is surrounded by the institutions that give Bloomsbury its character. The BMA has its headquarters here. Woburn House on the north side contains the headquarters of Universities UK. Connaught Hall, a University of London residence, stands on...

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