The Union Iron anti Steel Company, the only large competitor of tho Steel Trust, failed on September 4. Its capital was about £400,000. An interesting link of the patt lias just been severed bv the complete destruction of one of I'lacklieath’s most famous landmarks, '.’bis was a huge tree, which tradition states was the identical one which Dick Turpin tethered his horse v hen he stopped for refreshments <>t Iho old house hard by, which vas in former years an inn. Eeighty feet in height and eighteen in circumferenco at tho butt, the tree stood at the top of Hyde Vale, and its felling occupied three man for as many days. Some • years ago one of its large branches fell, and a severe gale hi "March last brought another to the ground. Considering that 't was a public danger, tho odd tree was doomed by tho London County Council.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2063, 14 December 1907, Page 1
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