Wellingtonia 128

This was really two Wellingtonia, for some reason planted rather close together, with one of them looking to have been truncated - by storm, chain-saw or otherwise - at some point.

As it happens, the building to the right started life as a farm house, the farm house for the mixed farm in Girton which took me on one summer to help with carting bales. Which included, as I recall, my first experience of driving. I was sometimes allowed to take the small tractor and trailer on mopping up operations, while the big boys did the serious stuff.

A farm, which I think was owned by one of the Cambridge Colleges, perhaps Trinity Hall, has mostly become housing. A farm house which reminds me of reading that there was a fashion at some point in the nineteenth century for landlords to put smart houses on their farms so as to attract a better class of tenant.

This attempt to zoom into the curious leaves of a Wellingtonia, I think at factor 10, failed completely. While I had thought that it looked OK on the telephone, at the time. Zooming into the snap further above, when it arrived on my laptop, failed in much the same way.

Google Images goes for Wellingtonia on a cropped version of the further above snap:

It is not possible to confirm whether the image depicts a pair of large trees in Girton, Cambridge, UK, based solely on the provided image and available information. The image shows a large conifer, likely a Giant Sequoia or Wellingtonia, but there is no visual or search result evidence to confirm its specific location in Girton, Cambridge, UK.

Getting, on the way, into a muddle with my hint that the trees were in Girton, included as his responses are often rather geared to the US. Furthermore, he does not seem to pick up that we have two trees here rather than one.

On the plus side, he turns up some images of big Wellingtonia in the botanical gardens at Cambridge, sadly not open when I passed the back entrance around 08:00 yesterday morning. Better luck next time.

PS 1: looking at gmaps this afternoon, I find that the house is now called St. John's Farmhouse, so perhaps it was St. John's College, rather than Trinity Hall.

PS 2: adding that snippet and the gmaps reference - 52.2423683,0.0817214 - to the hint, the AI assistant declines to play altogether. Maybe Google Images does not have access to gmaps.

References 

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/wellingtonias-123-thru-127.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum. 

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