Penshurst Tree building/huge seven sisters Chestnut

[Les Cork]

Way back after an FR Jones show in Shipbourne Kent a group of Arbtalkers had a trip to Penshurst to see a few wooden wonders then owned by Mike Westphal.

The wooden building is huge, 3 floors all made from timber cut from the woodland it sits on. The stanchions were lifted into place by crane again all trees from the same wood.

Has anyone been here recently at PORC or whatever the mountain bike park is called now.

The seven sisters tree is an ancient pollarded Chestnut that is so big you could park a car in the middle, we did measure it but I cant recall the distance. There were many original Arbtalkers there that day, I wonder how many are still on here ?

[Les Cork]

see

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[Steve Bullman]

5 minutes ago, Les Cork said:

see

kingdom+penshurst - Google Search

WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK

 

Got the group pic?

I think most of us are probably still around

[sandspider]

I was there quite recently. Lovely tree & building, though the cafe was a bit full of hipsters!