At the end of Swan Pool nearest the boat house there used to be 50 or so 100 year old poplars and sundry other old and (some of them) enormous other kinds of tree. That was until 2008 when Sandwell had them cut down for reasons documented elsewhere in this blog.
Some of the affected trees have defiantly started growing again but, sadly, about 1/3 of the poplars are dead.
Well, last Friday, when in that same vicinity, I heard the sound of chainsaws!
Upon checking, I found a crew of Acorn chaps setting about a willow tree.
I took a quick photo so that I could compare it with the blank space which I fully expected to be the outcome, based on previous Sandwell performance.
Imagine my surprise then when the following day I noticed that the willow was still there, allbeit in much reduced form - decimated is, for once, probably correctly used in this context.
But there was something different which I didn't immediately spot.
And that 'something' was the whole of 2 trees on the other side of the little path. They had just gone - literally rased to the ground. You can see that the tree on the extreme left in the first photo just isn't there in the second.
A crying shame.
These trees were old; out of the way; no trouble to anyone, and were not in the CCTV's line of sight.
Why on Earth do Sandwell pursue such utterly needless destruction?
Why has Sandwell destroyed, and continues to destroy, so much that is good?
Why does Sandwell pay subcontractors to carry out unnecessary work at a time when it should be conserving its resources?
Why does Sandwell exist at all?
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