Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine

Bolan was a passenger in a car that hit a part-metal-and-wood fence and then a sycamore tree on Queen's Ride (part of the B306, close to Gipsy Lane), and he was pronounced dead at the scene on the arrival of paramedics at the woods.

Marc Bolan died, aged 29, after being found unconscious in the wreckage of his purple Mini, driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones.

Jones lost control of the car, which then struck a steel-reinforced chain link fence post,[1] and came to rest against a sycamore tree,[2] after failing to navigate a small humpback bridge, near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, south-west London, even though she was wearing a seat belt.

[citation needed] From the day of the accident, the site became a place of pilgrimage to Bolan’s fans and this was reported in various newspapers from 1978 onwards.

TAG were granted an in perpetuity lease on the site with ownership and full responsibility for the "Bolan Tree".