Sunday 5th March 2000:

One year to the weekend after we started work to renovate the Saffron Walden hostel garden, we returned to plant a tree to commemorate what we have achieved over that year.

Darren chose a medlar tree; a type of fruit tree which is contemporary to the hostel

which was built around 500 years ago. Darren and a couple of us dug the hole, and planted the tree while everyone else offered moral support and drank tea.
The medlar should produce large white flowers in the spring and brown apple-shaped fruit in the autumn which can be used to make jam.

Jim holding our certificate: "1999 YHA Presidents award for Best Work undertaken at a Youth Hostel"

These pictures also appeared with an article in the Saffron Walden Reporter.