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View Poll Results: What should happen?
Restore the monument, shelter and paths 49 90.74%
Remove the monument and shelter and leave it alone 5 9.26%
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Old 17-11-2007, 16:05   #61
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I rather like the trees, but I do agree that they were not the most sensitive solution to the problem of erosion. BTW the species is European Larch (Larix Europaea) and is native to this country.
I can remember, when I was a lad, that the northern face of the coppice was covered with whinberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus) which was full of berries in late summer; also known as bilberry. Walter Smith Bakers on Whalley Road used to make the most exquisite Whinberry pies - sweet and sharper than a serpents tooth. One does not see them used much these days, more's the pity.

I do feel that we should preserve as much of our past as is practical. But we cannot save everything or we risk turning the whole of the borough into a museum and I am sure that nobody wants to live in a museum. The monument could be restored, but the shelter, the gift of Lady Higham I believe, is an eyesore and a magnet for vandals and should be demolished.

I notice that in the link supplied by Graham, Lancs CC see the Coppice as an opportunity for signage - as if we didn't already have enough of the bloody things cluttering the place up. I vote that Lancs CC be told to keep their politically correct noses out of things that do not concern them. The Coppice belongs to the people of Accrington, not to Lancashire County Council and its faceless beurocrats, stakeholders, key workers and associated freeloaders.
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Old 17-11-2007, 16:28   #62
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BTW the species is European Larch (Larix Europaea) and is native to this country.
Although it grows very well here, and has been planted here for a long time and has become somewhat naturalised, it isn't a native tree to Britain.

Elizabeth I certainly never sat under one, as it wasn't introduced to these shores until 1620

'The European Larch is native to the mountains of middle Europe, such as the Alps and the Carpathians.'

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Old 17-11-2007, 16:34   #63
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Thank you for the correction Dr. Lineus, I still think that they are attractive trees.
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Old 17-11-2007, 16:36   #64
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Thank you for the correction Dr. Lineus, I still think that they are attractive trees.
My pleasure to set you right.

By the way, it's plain old Rindy Thrower, not Dr. Lineus.
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Old 17-11-2007, 16:43   #65
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Which is all very well Miss Jekyll, but what would you do with the Coppice were you to be given a free hand?
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Which is all very well Miss Jekyll, but what would you do with the Coppice were you to be given a free hand?
I have no problem with the trees being there, if they are coppiced properly. If tended well it would ensure there will still be a wonderful view from the top of the hill, and it would also ensure the flora and fauna would flourish more readily under the regularly coppiced trees, because they'd have more light.

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Old 17-11-2007, 17:27   #67
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It is not possible to coppice conifers.
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It is not possible to coppice conifers.
That is why the Larch shouldn't be grown there.

Yes to Ash, Elder, Oak, Hazel, Wych-elm, Lime, or Hornbeam.
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Old 17-11-2007, 17:43   #69
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Fair point, but you missed Willow, which can be pollarded too.
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Fair point, but you missed Willow, which can be pollarded too.
She can?
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Old 17-11-2007, 18:19   #71
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The trees need to come down: there are far too many and it spoils the view:
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Old 18-11-2007, 06:09   #72
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so they might decide to renovate the shelter,what a good idea,some where else for the wino,s and druggies to spend their nights in comfort
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Old 18-11-2007, 12:57   #73
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The trees need to come down: there are far too many and it spoils the view:
Right on magpie, give them away for Christmas or for recycling, I'll guarantee there gone in a fortnight.
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Old 19-11-2007, 08:11   #74
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Fair point, but you missed Willow, which can be pollarded too.
That's a little extreme ... I don't think that she will sit still for it
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ooer.......
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