THE BEECH TREES OF SOUTH LIVERPOOL I have walked for many miles through south Liverpool for work or pleasure, and everywhere there are beech trees. Sefton Park, Aigburth Road, Calderstones Park, Reynolds Park, Brodie Avenue – all have fine old specimens. I first met them on...
MAGIC SWEET TREE In Stanley Park there is a big oak tree surrounded by cast iron railings. When we were kids, my Dad would put a bag of sweets on the railings - he called it the sweet tree. We would walk round the tree and...
WEST KIRBY These are two photos of the same tree taken in the winters of 2017 and 2019 with different film and camera types. The tree is located on the beach between West Kirby and Hoylake facing Hilbre Island. The weather on the coast at that...
THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO A TREE For many years I volunteered with Lancs Wildlife Trust on their red squirrel monitoring project, and my “patch” was a wonderful piece of woodland at Ince Blundell in Sefton. Whilst carrying out my monitoring, I noticed this tree and...
CHRISTMAS TREE Found old photo of our Christmas tree taken in the 70s we thought it was the best. Notice it’s standing on a cardboard box covered in wrapping paper. There was 10 of us kids 8 girls 2 boys and Christmas was always a very...
THE MYSTERY Here is one of my pictures during lockdown of a tree scene in the Mystery Park, Wavertree, Liverpool. I am a local abstract photographer based in Liverpool and walk in the Mystery park most days. The picture provides people to make their own interpretation and...
THE MYSTERY PT. 2 This was a set of 3 pictures from the Liverpool park “The Mystery” in Wavertree. They describe Liverpool to me in detail as a city. Unique, arty, setting a trend, strong, colourful, bright, beautiful, musical, and mysterious. The trees in this set of...
BEECH, LITTLE WOOD My favourite tree is this Beech (Fagus sylvatica) in Little Wood. A coach road linking Croxteth Hall, home of the Earls of Sefton with Knowsley Hall, home to the Earls of Derby runs through Little Wood. The majority of the trees were planted...
SILVER BIRCH For the last five years I have been working from my home working space, the Blue Room Writing Studio in the middle of a housing estate in L15, I call my flat Treeview as because it is on the third floor, all you can...
DAWN REDWOOD TREE IN SEFTON PARK Also known affectionately as the bong tree...