Moorend

Photographs taken in the 1980s by B. Pittam

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THE THREE BEECHES AT THE TOP OF THE SLYPE IN MOOREND


Trees in their glory, 1986.
Day after the final tree falls, 1990.

Here you can see that there was very little holding it into the ground 1990.


This is how the remaining tree looked
after the first fall 1990. B Pittam

1986, carvings, before the first tree fell.
Still visible today.
The wood has been cleared up from the first fallen tree, 1990.
Photographs Les & Brenda Pittam.

Mr Jack Weston said that he could remember these trees being planted when he was a boy so they must have been approaching 90 years old at their end. I cannot remember it being particularly windy when the first tree fell down, the second tree may well have been knocked down by the first one falling. The third one fell down shortly afterwards. The trees looked beautiful when standing but showed a great deal of disease once broken on the ground.

After speaking to Robert Weston recently he remembers his grandfather speaking about climbing the three beeches on the Stratford road, it seems possible that the two brothers Harry and Charlie both planted three beech trees on their land at about the same time.

Was it you that carved your initials and that of your friend on the very large trunk of the first tree to fall, it would be interesting to find out how long ago they were carved there.?