From little acorns

Today's blip is a photograph of a newish Farnham sculpture that sits outside the New Ashgate Gallery in Waggoner's Yard. It was commissioned in 2019 to celebrate Farnham's World Craft Town Status. The sculpture is a stylized oak tree made out of steel and bronze and is designed to celebrate the historical use of oak in Farnham's industrial past.

Probably the most significant oak structure to be fabricated in Farnham was the hammer-beam roof of Westminster Hall where Queen Elizabeth II is currently lying in State. The timbers were cut and shaped in the town, the roof fitted together and then the whole dismantled, transported to London on wagons and barges and then reassembled in situ, where it still stands today, some six hundred years later.