31 January 1998 A tree being vandalised by a member of the museum. Every night a little more was cut out of this willow tree. A tree surgeon and the Community Industry team tried so hard to save it but the member continued the spiteful vandalism. This is the one time action was taken and a confession made to this act and that of writing a derogatory article in a magazine about the site owner. The result for the person who committed these acts was membership suspension for two years.  I find it rather strange that some years later an award was given for 30 years of continuous membership to the museum. However I do have the minutes a Board Meeting in February 1988 to prove the break in the so-called 30 years.

Sadly the result for this mature tree was a few weeks later for it to fall in the late winter gales. We had to clear up the remains of this despicable act of vandalism. Its sister trees have since been pruned/removed because of them crushing the front drains, final justice by mother nature?.