Anyone remember these three massive trees?
They were the three on the bank between the main pool in Dartmouth Park and the tennis courts.
Did you note the tense?
Yes, that's right. 'Were'
To-day at about 1.00pm the furthest had been cut to the ground. The centre one had all of its branches removed and a team of experts working on removing the main trunk.
No doubt by this time tomorrow the third will also have become history.
To those of us who marvel at trees that have stood for generations and generations, it seems wicked that, on a whim, a handful of faceless people, buried deep somewhere in Sandwell, can remove all trace of them.
It also seems absurd in the extreme that such destruction is taking place in an area designated as parkland. And, of course, if this continues, it will cease to be parkland, and simply become, land.
Well, maybe, in due course, I will be able to bring you photos of featureless land at Sandwell.
Wasteland in a land of waste.
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