From little acorns
Jun 09, 2021
3 minutes
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WHEN we are very familiar with something, it is easy to ‘see’ it without really seeing it at all. Take the oak-leaf emblem of the National Trust. At first glance, it is merely a representation of the British countryside the organisation conserves. However, dig a little deeper and the carved image has its own story to tell.
The symbol was created by one Joseph Armitage, born in 1880 and the first of Edward and Jane
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