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Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. ==Public art== The centre-piece of the gardens is a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, sculpted by Fredda Brilliant and installed in 1968. The maquette is in the possession of her niece and was shown on the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow in April 2013. The hollow pedestal was intended, and is used, for people to leave floral tributes to the peace campaigner and nonviolent resister to oppression in South Africa and British rule in India.〔 A cherry tree was planted in 1967 in memory of the victims of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A generation later, in 1994, a stone commemorating "men and women conscientious objectors all over the world and in every age" by Hugh Court〔http://www.ppu.org.uk/memorials/peace/london/costone.html〕 was unveiled. The three features have led to the square unofficially being regarded by some as a peace park or garden, and annual ceremonies are held at each of these memorials. A bust of the writer Virginia Woolf, cast from a 1931 sculpture by Stephen Tomlin (1901-1937), was unveiled in 2004 at the south-west corner of the square. Woolf lived at 52 Tavistock Square between 1924 and 1939. From there she and her husband Leonard Woolf ran The Hogarth Press, which became a prominent and influential publisher at the forefront of modernist fiction and poetry (publishing T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield among others) and translating the works of Sigmund Freud into English. Their house was destroyed by a bomb in October 1941 during the London blitz. The south side of the square where Woolf lived is now occupied by a hotel. The square also contains a bust of the surgeon Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tavistock Square」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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