Glastonbury Thorn Vandalised

What would be the purpose of anyone doing that?

Bad saterlite reception

Local Authority militant pollarding regime

Glastonbury Thorn chopped down as town rages over attack on famous tree | Environment | The Guardian

BBC News - Historic Holy Thorn tree cut down in Glastonbury

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Read about this in the paper this morning.

Probably some students "protesting"

I also read about htis a few hours ago...having since partaken of some evening sustinance...I am somewhat tired and emotional.

The occaisional short sighted selfish stupidity of humans never ceases to amaze me...and yes I am not pretending that I have not done much (MUCH) worse in my time...I am part of the human club.

I just hope that this incredibly resiliant little tree (for not the first time in its existance) is able to regenerate itself again from the stump...reiterative regrowth is something we should all marvel at.

I hope there are some Glastonbury Arbs on Arbtalk who might keep us informed about what happens to the tree.

Read about this in the paper this morning.

 

Probably some students "protesting"

Bit unfair to tar all students with that brush. Regardless of whether they are a student or not they are still nasty people.

They think it might be a revenge attack on the guy who owned the land it was on.

Personally i think the country as a whole has gone mad!!

Looks like a perfect opportunity to cut it off at ground level and to show the feeble minded locals that its not 2000 years old and that they should get a grip on reality & fact rather than peddle the gibberish they do.

Hell of a lot more to life than facts and figures! No need to be disrespectful

Makes me wonder what sort of world my little boy will inherit when a small number of petty minded bigots decide they what to remove that little bit of magic that still remains in this world:thumbdown:

Looks like a perfect opportunity to cut it off at ground level and to show the feeble minded locals that its not 2000 years old and that they should get a grip on reality & fact rather than peddle the gibberish they do.

Not to mention nobodys saying it's 2000 years old. In 'fact' Records suggest it was felled and replanted from a cutting during the civil war which puts it a few hundred years old.

Nothing surprises in a world that would deface the Cenotaph and a statue of Winston Churchill. The Glastonbury thorn is of no religious significance to me but its mysteriousness spp? intrigues. Long live the unknown.