Keywords: Felling the Selly Oak.jpg The old oak tree at Selly Oak being felled by the local authority's workmen With the branches already removed an axeman poses for the camera before beginning the work of finally chopping the tree down watched by a small crowd Images of this postcard have appeared in the following publications Dowling Geoff et al Selly Oak Past and Present A Photographic Survey of a Birmingham Suburb Department of Geography University of Birmingham 1987 p 2; Maxam Andrew Selly Oak Weoley Castle on Old Picture Postcards Yesterday's Warwickshire Series No 20 Reflections of a Bygone Age Keyworth 2004 image No 26; Butler Joanne et al Selly Oak and Selly Park Images of England Series Tempus Publishing Ltd Stroud 2005 p 23 Image of an old photograph first published as a postcard digital copy taken from Selly Oak Weoley Castle on Old Picture Postcards image No 26 1909 Author PD-old PD-US Old Selly Oak Postcards of people in the United Kingdom Postcards of Birmingham 1909 in England |