1891

I was quite excited finding this nice piece of old graffiti on one of the forests mature Beech. There's something about running your fingers over something somebody took time to carve all those years back, and graffiti of that period was always carved with such care and with a certain style. Coincidentally, 1891, was the year Arthur Conan Doyles' Sherlock Holmes first appears in the Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle lived a couple miles from this tree in Minstead.