File:1905-02-07 front The Fig Tree Watford.jpg
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A postcard sent to Ted Claxton. Showing the Fig Tree Tomb, in St Mary's Churchyard, Watford, London, England. This was a 19th-century curiosity. A fig tree was growing out of an unnamed tomb, and the legend had it that an atheist man or woman had hoped that if there were a god, then they would show some evidence of existence in the tomb - and that evidence was thought to be the fig tree. In the picture you can see the trunk of the tree growing from under the stone lid. It has no leaves because it is winter. (Information sources: Watford Museum Team, Stephen Liddell, Watford Observer and Watford Through Time by John Cooper |
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