The Hardy Tree

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The Hardy Tree
The Hardy Tree

Before becoming a renown author, Thomas Hardy worked for a London architecture firm that was tasked with exhuming and reburying remains from cemeteries that were to be demolished to expand the rail system. As Hardy was essentially what we'd call an intern, he was the one made to due the grisly work. After the bodies had been relocated he had hundreds of tombstones to deal with, of which he decided to stack up and place in a circle around an ash tree.
This is that tree. It has since grown into and over some of the tombstones and become a bit of an oddity at St. Pancras Old Church (visible in the background).
Flickr Explore #73, September 17th, 2019

The tree fell in late December 2022.

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Taken on: August 19, 2019
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