Given that the restart of the trolley scene seems to have stalled, I thought I might collect Wellingtonia instead, of which there are quite a few dotted around the borough. This one spotted on my way down Hook Road, nestled between what is left of St. Ebba's Hospital and the new housing estate. I don't remember the red tinge to the sky and not all the snaps have it, so perhaps some artefact of my telephone.
I had thought that the name of the tree, an alternative to the more proper sequoiadendron giganteum, was something to do with Wellington in New Zealand, with New Zealand being one of the many places to which this tree has been taken, from the wet of the US. But Wikipedia suggests that it was just a mistake by some English botanist who was an impressionable young man at the time that the Duke of Wellington won his most famous battle. He does not appear to have visited the trees in their native land.
Wikipedia also tells me that the trees grow well in Scotland and that there is a fine avenue of them in Camberley. Which last was turned up by Bing at reference 2, after which I found it on gmaps and Street View, reference 51.3271351,-0.6976085. Clearly a place to visit as soon as permission to drive arrives.
PS: the 'extra large' option for pictures offered by the new Blogger client seems to work OK for portrait orientation. Even if some of the definition seems to have been lost on the way.
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum.
Reference 2: http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/picturepages/a311.htm.
Group search key: wgc. The two predecessors for this key having been taken by visits to the Wigmore Hall. One of which involved a waitress from Slovakia taking a disapproving sniff of the grappa offered by Caffe Caldesi.
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