Thank you. I have a thing for old trees - the older the better. They are like silent time travellers passing through the ages. In fact, I'll go as far to say I find it quite upsetting to see healthy ones cut down - what right have we to destroy something so old? Was most unhappy to see those giant firs that were at the Ropewalk removed.
I believe they were Monterey Pines, fairly old and not that common in that age group of around 70 years or so. They had a great more intelligence and purpose that those that decided to cut them down.
There was, like
Penzance had many other trees, some under 'protection' of a TPO, equally as useless as a Listed Building Status - you see it is not the strength of tree or paper (ironic as that may be) but the strength of the officers in place. Penzance had a single TPO protected Holm Oak, which was cut down because the owner asked to cut it down because it hid sunlight from his window; the fact that the man had pots of money and was influential in the town, may possibly have had something to do with it, but I could not possibly comment.
'Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.'
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