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 isabeats rated 8 days ago-
Death shall have no dominion. Thanks, imorgen.
- wormy79 rated 8 months ago
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Cool tree.
- imorgen rated 8 days ago
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Jacqueline Banerjee
- wynandviljoen rated 8 months ago
- Time is our biggest enemy...
- J3nnaG rated 8 months ago
- I live near here and im now off to investigate!
- b-bear rated 8 months ago
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The Hardy Tree
St Pancras Churchyard, London
The plaque accompanying the tree explains that "before turning to writing full time," Thomas Hardy "studied architecture in London from 1862-67 under Mr. Arlhur Blomfield, an architect based in Covent Garden. During the 1860s the Midland Railway line was being built over part of the original St. Pancras Churchyard. Blomfield was commissioned by the Bishop of London to supervise the proper exhumation of human remains and dismantling of tombs. He passed this unenviable task to his protegé Thomas Hardy in. c.l865. Hardy would have spent many hours in St. Pancras Churchyard . . . overseeing the careful removal of bodies and tombs from the land on which the railway was being built. The headstones around this ashtree (Fraxinus excelsior) would have been placed here about that time. Note how the tree has since grown in amongst the stones.
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