Newcastle Shoe Tree

  

In a park not too far from where I live is the Newcastle shoe tree.
The shoe tree has been around for a few years now and I guess it must have been the amount of shoes on the original tree that made the local council cut down a few of the most decorated branches leaving it a shadow of it's former self. In the last couple of years people, myself included, have been adding shoes to the original tree and the others along that particular pathway making it more of a shoe tree alley these days.

Here is a short video about it on YouTube.



A lot more photos of the Shoe Tree can be found at my photoblog Photographs Of Newcastle: Armstrong Park.

Edit: Thanks to Hypersloth for reminding me about the Nevada shoe tree



See also
Shoe Tree in Oregon
Roadside America's article on shoe trees
Shoe Trees — Icons of the American Road
Shoe tossing - Wikipedia