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Heritage trees with roots in history
From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20020612
Author:KAREN SHEAD
TWO hundred years have passed by since the little boy clambered on to his tree-swing and pushed himself higher and higher.
The yew tree stood firm as the young Robert Louis Stevenson happily swung from its branches, absorbing the view of Colinton as it stretched before him.
Today, that same yew tree, in the grounds of Colinton Church Manse in Spylaw Street, is estimated to be 400 years old. It is possibly the oldest surviving tree in the city.
Stevenson mentioned the tree and its swing - the metal brackets are still attached to one of its branches - in some of his poems, particularly in A ...
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