QUEEN BESS ELM
A massive trunk, almost entirely hidden by foliage is all that remains o± the centuries-old elm beneath the shade of which according to tradition, Queen Elizabeth rested in. her barge alter a ploansant trip from town to the countryside of Herne Hill. Last year tho old elm, which flourishes just inside the grounds of a house in Half Moon lane, with motor buses passinc within a few feet, was operated on r <A7-?W^° Prolonging its life (says the "Daily Chronicle"). Tho "operation was successful, arid the trunk some 12 feet high, is now a mass of leaves. Until modorn times the river Lffra flowed past the elm, and it was upon this tributary of tho Thames (now enclosed m an underground pipe) that Queen. Bess travelled.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 6
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129QUEEN BESS ELM Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 6
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