Queen Elizabeth's Oak

Another Greenwich Park blip because with so many nooks and crannies within the park, I try to take different paths each time I walk through it.

Today I walked past this old historic (very dead), 12th century oak tree, known as Queen Elizabeth's Oak, so decided it would be my blip. I won't bore you with a history lesson, but I love these more recent facts about it:

"Although the tree died sometime in the 19th century, the patchwork of ivy that had grown around it had held it upright for a further 150 years. In fact, the tree stood all the way up until 1991 when a heavy rain storm brought it tumbling down. Apparently the soil that had been propping up the decrepit old oak was washed away, thus leaving the tree free to fall back to earth."