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Issue 73 South Liverpool July 2013
The monthly independent advertiser 23,000 copies 18,500 into Homes 4,500 into Businesses in Woolton, Gateacre, Childwall, L18, L17, L15, Woolton Hill, Woolton Park and Calderstones.
HEARTS OF OAK
WHAT’S INSIDE STRANGE TALES by Anton Valdemart Page 6
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by Stephen Guy Long ago Britain was covered by forests creating magical landscapes penetrated by lonely tracks linking towns and villages.
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This was the legendary land of Robin Hood. The whispering woods were charmed places, seemingly serene but where violence and death could suddenly strike. Even kings were not immune as William II, a redheaded tyrant, discovered at his cost – shot dead by an arrow while hunting. The laws of cruel kings drove people to seek
refuge in the greenwood where the only habitations were occasional charcoalburner’s hovels. Until Saxon times bears lumbered through the trees and beavers dammed streams. Wolves were wiped out by royal decree. Toxteth Park was a royal hunting forest, surrounded by a fence and teeming with deer and wild boar. As the population grew the trees were felled. The land needed to be farmed to feed England’s growing communities. Wood was required for houses and fuel. Slowly the forests dwin-
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dled and the roads and lanes multiplied. Villages were settled and some grew into towns and towns into cities. Liverpool started as a manor farm on the banks of the Mersey, spreading out to engulf villages that were far older. The hunger for
first-class timber to build warships saw the end of the remaining native f o r e s t s . Shipwrights demanded oak to build the new n a v y. Huge amounts were needed – all the prime oaks in one county were felled continued on page 4
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