Ashdown Forest - Scotspines

Scots Pines Again pines, two of them, are the trees that Shepard has sketched. The photograph shows another two in the foreground with many more further away. Without management the Forest would gradually turn into woodland like much of the High Weald landscape. In time it would lose the distinctiveness that it has

acquired over the last 900 years as a result of its creation, by the Normans, for hunting deer and its heavy exploitation by iron-masters, local commoners and the military. This photograph was taken near Camp Hill Clump, where military manoeuvres took place in 1793 and just prior to the D-Day landings in 1944.

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‘What shall we do about poor little Tigger? If he never eats nothing he’ll never get bigger. He doesn’t like honey and haycorns and thistles Because of the taste and because of the bristles. And all the good things which an animal likes Have the wrong sort of swallow or too many spikes.’

Illustration and passage from: The House At Pooh Corner Text © A.A.Milne, line illustrations © the Estate of E.H.Shepard, colouring © 1970 E.H.Shepard and Egmont UK Limited.

This photograph was taken from location 5

Photography: David Gadsby www.dgphotography.co.uk