This wonderful tree, which I take to be a black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, looks as though it belongs in a park or large garden rather than where it is, on the pavement in Wyndham Road. Certainly the tree is much older than all the surrounding buildings and, in its solitary splendour, it doesn't look as though it was designed for the pavement. Perhaps a large garden is where it used in fact to be, and Edwardian children played under it; but the garden has long since been taken away. How good that it has survived.
Saturday, 21 July 2007
Great tree
This wonderful tree, which I take to be a black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, looks as though it belongs in a park or large garden rather than where it is, on the pavement in Wyndham Road. Certainly the tree is much older than all the surrounding buildings and, in its solitary splendour, it doesn't look as though it was designed for the pavement. Perhaps a large garden is where it used in fact to be, and Edwardian children played under it; but the garden has long since been taken away. How good that it has survived.
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In the mid-nineteenth century Wyndham Lane was the entrance to the Flora Gardens - a place of entertainment, with concerts, fountains, dancing and a maze. Perhaps the tree was planted then.
The gardens were built over in 1863. Thirty years later the area was a notorious slum.
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