The tree became a powerful symbol of life among death after the novelist and poet stacked gravestones around its base in the 1860s
The Hardy Tree, named for the writer who stacked gravestones around the base of the ash when both man and plant were young in the 1860s, has fallen down.
The tree, which stood in the Old St Pancras Churchyard in London, was surrounded by dozens of headstones that were placed at its base while engineering works were being undertaken on a railway line. It became a prominent image of life among death.
