Tavistock Square — Archibald Baxter Memorial Trust

One of our inspirations in building the memorial is Tavistock square in London. Started in the 1960s in memory of the victims of the nuclear bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and with a stone dedicated to Concencious Objectors being laid in 1994 has grown to become an unofficial peace park.

In 1994 a Stone was dedicated in Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, to "Men and Women Conscientious Objectors to Military Service All Over the World and in Every Age".

Each year, on International Conscientious Objectors' Day, 15 May, a list is read out of some 70 COs, each representative of a different country, and a flower bearing the name and the country is laid for each.