Historic tree
Pupils of Thorrington School had a welcome break from lessons for a ceremony to mark the placing of a plaque beside a 100-year-old lime tree in the school grounds.
The plaque, of engraved stainless steel, records that the tree was planted in 1876 by the Rev. H. B. Cocks, the owner of “Burfield.” Mr Cocks was the first vicar of Sydenham. Burfield was the name of the house he built soon after taking up, in 1875, the land on part of which Thorrington School now stands. At the ceremony, Mr R. H. T. Thompson spoke on behalf of the Heathcote County Council, which was responsible for placing the plaque by the tree, and Mrs A. Beckett on behalf of the Canterbury regional committee of the Historic Places Trust, which had the idea.
Mr D. Morse, also a member of the committee, told the pupils about Burfield. The chairman of the school committee (Mr G. G. Loveridge) thanked the council for the plaque, and a pupil of the school, Lesli Davies, thanked those present for attending the ceremony. The ceremony was chaired by the headmaster of the school (Mr H. Parker). Also present was a grandson of the Rev. Cocks, Mr P. S. Cocks, who is now retired and living in Christchurch.
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Press, 19 August 1978, Page 7
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