A friend posted the following on Facebook, below. Which made me think. We could do much more with veteran trees in London.... They should be on Panoramio / Google Maps and Flickr / Bing maps and their should be a handy app to take a photo and upload some text and a location so people could hunt them down.... It is one thing to have dead old artefacts and buildings of great antiquity... quite another to have a living connection
At a bend in the River Brent where it forms the boundary that separates Hanwell London W7 from Southall, Middlesex stands this ancient oak tree estimated to be over 900 years old---frequently battered about in storms and floods its been struck by lightning several times and lost branches yet still every spring its bright green oak leaves create a marvellous canopy ---here it is as it was today in late Winter …..
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