14th September 2p23

14th September 2023 photo 257 of 365.

(from the Argus newspaper 17th april 23)
The second of the Preston Twins, which were planted in Brighton's Preston Park in around 1600, succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in 2019, with hundreds mourning its loss.

But artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva took what was left of the huge tree and had spent years working on a way to honour its legacy, naming it The Gilded Elm.