Swainston

Above, (left to right) are Joe Bricker (Eagle Trustee), John Swainston (Eagle President), Carol Swainston (Eagle Treasurer), James Lewis, Firefighter, and AJ Carmichael, Ava Fire Captain.

Swainston says this is a good thing.

In the late 1890s, Lady Simeon at Swainston told her nurse (my great aunt) that Tennyson wrote "Maud" under this tree.

Sketch of Alfred Tennyson published one year after his death in 1892, seated in his favourite arbour at his Farringford House home in the village of Freshwater, Isle of Wight Photograph of the cedar tree at Swainston Manor, Isle of Wight.