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20 September 2021

Amazing relic from Shandy Hall tree

“Gathered from an aged tree in the garden at Shandy Hall . . . 26 July 1854”.  Amazing relic from the sweet chestnut killed by lightning in 1911, but still here in Shandy Hall gardens.  A leaf pressed by Rev. William Nichols in a copy of Sterne’s works of 1783. Thanks to Edward Bayntun-Coward for […]