WOODLANDS IN BRITAIN
OLD TREES GOING “The turning of beauty spots into aerodromes and battle ranges is part of the price which war exacted from the countryside, said R. B. M. Blomfield in a recent BBC talk. Unfortunately if is far from being the total bill. Although one does not notice it at first, it doesn’t take long to discover that the trees of these islands have suffered terribly heavy casualties during the last seven years. Foreign supplies are still small, and our so-called ‘commercial plantations’ are almost used up. This means that woodlands hitherto regarded as amenities may have to be felled. Noticing that the magnificent colonnade of grey beech trunks that used to flank the drive of one estate had gone, I enquired the use to which they’d been put. “Rifle butts,” was the answer. Now they go to make utility furniture.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 69, 6 January 1947, Page 8
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144WOODLANDS IN BRITAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 69, 6 January 1947, Page 8
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