The group of people around the mound in Epping High Street (Image: Gary Stone)
Epping High Street, c1895.
A group of people are posing around a mound for the camera. Could it be for the planting of a new tree?
A highly decorative gas lamp stands in the foreground near the junction of St John’s Road.
Some of the trees have survived to this day.
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