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Description The old oak tree at Selly Oak being felled by the local authority's workmen. With the branches already removed, an axeman poses for the camera before beginning the work of finally chopping the tree down watched by a small crowd [Images of this postcard have appeared in the following publications: Dowling, Geoff, et al., Selly Oak Past and Present: A Photographic Survey of a Birmingham Suburb (Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, 1987), p. 2; Maxam, Andrew, Selly Oak & Weoley Castle on Old Picture Postcards, Yesterday's Warwickshire Series No. 20 (Reflections of a Bygone Age, Keyworth, 2004), image No. 26; Butler, Joanne, et al., Selly Oak and Selly Park, Images of England Series (Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud, 2005), p. 23]
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