Louise Brealey Instagram – I was fourteen, on my first school trip away from home. Singing on the bus, miles and miles to go up the Great North Road to Hadrian’s beautiful wall. Bunk beds. Beans on toast. We walked all the next day, Hilary and me, in jeans and jumpers and the wind, and suddenly there it was. A great tree, sheltered in the gap between two hills: improbable, indelible. I took a photo on my little point and shoot Kodak camera. I couldn’t wait to get it developed. When it came back I realised that I hadn’t stood far enough away to catch it, to catch the way it made you feel; like a magic trick. Today, F said that a famous tree had been felled in the night, a tree between two hills was gone. it was a Sycamore, three hundred years old. I feel suddenly how much has gone. #sycamoregap