I READ with interest your report on the damaged mulberry tree (Echo April 10).
If this is the tree which was originally in the playground of the old Poole Grammar School; then it is well over 50 years old.
In the fifties we boys used the tree to play football-cricket.
The tree served as a wicket and the “batsman” kicked the ball that was bowled to him in order to gain runs.
DEREK SERCOMBE Littledown Avenue, Bournemouth
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