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Flutterby
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On a recent walk from Earby to Elslack walking along the old railway, line my family and i came across a Monkey puzzle tree in an obscure place when turning off left of the track. thought there must have been a dwelling there long ago as who would plant a tree like that there?
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 06:10
Don't know about that one. I only found out the other day that Whitby Jet is fossilised Monkey Puzzle Tree. There used to be one in Barlick on Chapel Street and I think Edith Barlow the midwife used to liove there.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Flutterby
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 10:32
Saw that programme too! The field where the tree is , is at the bottom of Thornton . Im intriqued to find out about this as i felt it was quite a sad place |
Flutterby
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Posted - 31/12/2006 : 18:14
Thought that someone could solve the puzzle of the monkey puzzle tree? |
catgate
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Posted - 01/01/2007 : 20:22
I remember visting a house somewhere in the vicinity of your tree about 50 years ago.
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Gloria
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 08:43
Have you tried looking on "old maps" you may be able to see a building on there?
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 11:14
Stanley - yes I well remember the Monkey Puzzle Tree at Midwife Barlow's house there on Chapel Street. It used to fascinate me as a kid, for the name if nothing else. You read The Guardian don't you Stanley? The crossword setter Arucaria has that name presumably because 'Arucaria' is the Monkey Puzzle Tree.
Richard Broughton
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Stanley
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 12:24
No Richard, I used to but I got fed up of paying 85p a day for a wodge of stuff I threw away and London centric reporting so I get the Yorkshire Post now, rabid right wing on the quiet but good regional news.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Flutterby
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 13:22
Thats athought Catgate1 I will look on the old maps, but stillcurious as to why the place has vanished! as the foundations seem to be there? |
Gloria
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 13:36
Flutterby, have I changed my name to Catgate ????? me thinks not, do I put it down to age 
Gloria 
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Flutterby
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 13:47
Sorry Gloria1 it must me my age! What us women have to put up with!lol! |
Stanley
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 17:45
There was another mention about Whitby Jet today and it transpires that the fossilised wood is not the Monkey Puzzle tree that we know nowadays but a very close relative that grew in the Jurassic period. At that time Whitby was part of Pangea and it's position was somewhere in the Atlantic off Rio Janeiro.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Callunna
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 17:46
We're planning to plant a monkey puzzle tree in our front garden. Like Bruff, I remember the one on Chapel Street - it really fascinated me as a child.I believe they're quite expensive - can anyone recommend a decent place to buy trees? I know the garden centres will have them but sometimes they're a bit of a rip-off. We're also going to plant a Scots Pine and a laurel bush or hedge. We want some evergreen growth for privacy but we don't want to match the neighbouring houses with privet and leylandii. |
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 19:47
Somebody told me years ago that the Vikings brought Monkey puzzle trees to this country,I dont know how true this is,Ive never had any reason to question it but ,raping ,pilliging and planting pretty trees doesnt sound quite right.
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 06:00
H, have a search on the web and make sure that if you buy a tree it has been reared in our climate, ie. north of Cheshire. There was a good nursery at Brighouse, Kershaws I think. That's where I got the pear tree for Hey Farm. If they haven't got one they will advise you.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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Another
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 09:00
Tom, the norsemen (they were only Vikings when going a viking - raiding) were in the main farmers, craftsmen and traders. Apart ffrom the initial raids to scout and increase the coffers many stayed in the North to farm. Yggdrasil - the tree of life, is often depicted as a tree with a winding, sinuous trunk, not unlike the monkey puzzle. Nolic
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Monkey puzzle tree!
