Historical landmark
The Allerton Oak
Ancient oak around a thousand years old, its heavy limbs held up by iron crutches in a public park.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Allerton Oak in Liverpool's Calderstones Park starts on a winter evening in eighteen sixty-four, when a ship loaded with gunpowder caught fire on the Mersey and the whole city heard it. It weighs a local legend about the crack in the trunk against a historian's doubts, and follows the MacIver shipping family's estate into public hands. Stand by the fence facing the iron crutches under the heaviest limbs.
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