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Reference WMO/285835

Address:

Valley Gardens

Harrogate

HG1 2SZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Other
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Garden
Materials:
  • Flora and Fauna Flora and Fauna (any)
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A garden set out to remember 23 Airmen, stationed in North Yorkshire, who lost their lives during World War 2 and who are buried in Stonefall Cemetery.
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Welcome to The New Zealand Garden, Valley Gardens/ NEW ZEALAND GARDEN/ Originally created 1953/ Restored and enhanced - 2010// The City of Wellington, New Zealand and Harrogate Borough Council have a sister-city relationship/ established in the 1950's to honour the 23 New Zealand Airmen, stationed in North Yorkshire, who lost/ their lives during World War II and who are buried in Stonefall Cemetery. In the 1950's there were/ exchanges of native plants between Harrogate and Wellington. The area here was designated the/ New Zealand Garden and laid out with new plant material which had arrived all the way from/ "The Land of the Long White Cloud" on the other side of the world.// Pride of place in the restored Gardens goes to/ an original wooden Maori pou (poe) kindly/ gifted by the City of Wellington and its iwi/ partner Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust/ representing the interests of Te Atiawa, Ngati/ Tama, Ngati Ruanui and Taranaki.

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