Tea House, Kew Gardens, destroyed by suffragettes [1913 March]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows the remains of the tea pavilion at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, west London, which was destroyed by an arson attack in March by suffragists Lilian Lenton and Olive Wharry of the Women's Social and Political Union. (Source: Flickr Commons proejct, 2018)
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1759, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
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