The poplar trees along West Street probably around 1910. Several were dead or dying and in 1914 some were set alight. They were later felled. A stack at Highfield's farm near here was accidentally set on fire by a young lad smoking a pipe and showing off to some young ladies. As he sauntered off their calls alerted him to the fire and he tried to put it out but then ran off and hid - until hunger forced him home and to a policeman who was waiting for him there.
