The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

1920 Unpublished

This image is from a series of photographs of specimen trees at Albury Park, Surrey. Each photograph includes a figure for scale. Here we can appreciate the immense scale of these felled oaks. The labour involved must have been considerable; the marks on the timber to the right suggest an axe was used to cut away part of the trunk.

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