Yews, Oaks, Cedars & Horsechestnuts

Hi Balcony, I used to deliver in Huntingdon and recognise some of these places. Lovely old trees! :~))

Thank you for showing these trees. It's a pitty they get in the way sometimes, but I suppose we need fire stations, car parks etc in order to live our modern lives. It's good that sometimes more trees are planted to replace the old ones that are chopped down.
I wouldn't say the yew tree I wrote about was spectacular. It seems to have suffered like some of the ones you show here. I hope to find out some of it's history if I can after the holiday period.

Hi Balcony, I also did a blog on the ancient yew of Lychett Matravers back in November 2008. This is a interesting blog and you have some lovely old Cedars in the area

Very interesting.... enjoyed all the photos...
and your captions and explanations... Thank you...:o)

interesting blog.......

Hi Bluespruce & thank you for your comments. I had a look at your log entry - very interesting Yew tree there!

I would never have imagined that you had been delivering here in Huntingdon, Ian! there are one or two building that are instantly recognisable - Hinchingbrooke House being a big old house & very distinctive as well.

Hywel I must agree with you about needing these places in our modern world but the way they butcher some trees & cut down other mature trees just for light is a real shame. In the street where I live there were some form of Maple planted around 50+ years ago in a double line along about half the street. At least 8 of these trees were cut down. When I got up in the morning about 7.30 two years ago I heard the sound of chain saws. I couldn't locate them at first & when I did I saw a crew of blokes cutting the branches from the trees & thought that was all they were doing but when I got home from work I saw they had cut down several of the trees. Over the next couple of days they finished cutting down a whole row of these trees, only the inner of the two survived. I could have cried! No exaggeration!

Thanks for you kind comments, TT! :-)

Yes Balcony, local authorities are all to quick to removes trees these days

Oh that's sad about the trees. Sometimes they just seem to do something without thinking of alternatives
:o((

I probably have a photo on my computer of what the street used to look like a few years ago & what it looks like now.

In the Town Park there were a lot of Acers,also planted more than 50 years ago. As they overshadowed a path they cut them all back about two years ago as well. That was perhaps more understandable as the poor street lights were too weak & far apart to illuminate the path much & therefore could constitute a public safety hazard. But the trees in the street here can't be said to constitute any such hazard. In any case they could have polled them. Then the new growth could have been cut back every few years. It would have had the effect of lightening the area but no, out with the chainsaw & off with their heads!!! Lol!

:o(((
Councils often take the easy way out unfortunately

Thanks for an interesting blog

Glad you liked it! I took a couple of photos this afternoon of the street. One from "below" looking up towards the block of flats where I live & the other from "above" looking down the street from the flats. There's only an hour or so between the photos but the difference in lighting is great! The 2nd is much darker than the 1st!

In the 1st photo the stumps are clearly visible as they are about 50cm above the ground.

I enjoyed this interesting blog I live on a main road but there are three rows of trees going the full length of the road.I am not sure what trees they are but they look great in the summer.

Glad you enjoyed the blog, Mavisc. It can often be difficult to identify trees planted by the local authorities unless a name tag is left on them, but then again that would only be for young trees recently planted. If the trees have been planted for many years then the task is much more difficult.