Edward VII Coronation Tree

The two records of this oak cannot agree on the day it was planted, and they are a week apart. The plaque quoted by Takapuna Primary School dates it to 2 August 1902, the coronation of Edward VII. Auckland Council's notable tree schedule, through Wikidata, gives the planting as 9 August 1902. Nobody has reconciled the two, and either way the tree is about 124 years old, in a band of 122 to 126. It is the elder of a pair. Eight years later a second Pedunculate Oak went in a few metres along the same frontage for the coronation of George V, and both are still there. The school puts it plainly in its own history: the oaks were planted at the front of the school, they survive today, over a hundred years later, and each carries its own plaque. In 1923 the War Memorial Gates were raised beside them and unveiled by the Governor-General, Viscount Jellicoe. So this oak has grown up inside a small piece of civic memory, two coronations and a war marked out on one strip of lawn, with a primary school going past it twice a day. See it from the footpath. Both oaks read clearly from Anzac Street, at or very near the boundary. The front lawn is school ground and we cannot promise it is open, so plan on looking rather than walking up to the trunk.