Around half of trees on campus were torn down during a storm in October 1987. Published in the Bulletin on 27 October 1987.

This week in 1987, the campus lost around half of its 600 trees in the "Great Gale". 

Do you remember the storm? 

Here is an extract from the original article in the Bulletin published Friday 27 October 1987:

Campus trees devastated

Three hundred of the 605 mature trees in the central part of the campus, some of them 200 years old, have been lost in the Great Gale. Elms which had survived the ravages of Dutch Elm Disease, giant beeches, oaks and sycamores were among the trees toppled as the storm in the early hours of Friday, October 16 raged across campus. 

Russell's Clump, to the north-west of the Gardner Centre, is a tangle of massive fallen beeches. Ninety per cent of the trees have been lost here... 

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