This is an old photograph from my archive. It was taken before 3 August 2001 because that was the date when those two Norfolk pines (one behind the other) were felled; they were diseased.
But I have to say that they complemented the handsome church beautifully; it's nowhere near as visually satisfying today.
Funny trees, Norfolk pines; I'm not sure that I like them much as flora, but as designs they are unique. Simon Broadbent, a PhD (engineering and statistics) friend of mine - all left brain - visiting from London, eyeing a perfectly symmetrical one said to me: 'If an engineer were design a tree, that's what it would look like'.
© DON DONOVAN
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