Members of the Friends of the Cypress Group are pictured with local primary school students at a 2018 celebration of the historic avenue of trees. “When we are gone, who is going to look after the golden cypress,” was a question asked during the celebration. “Us” came a spontaneous chorus of young voices, to the delight of everyone present. Among the students and teacher pictured here are great grandchildren of members of island pioneering families, whose children, as Cowes Primary pupils in the early 1900s, planted the avenue of cypress. They are Mia and Lucy Thompson, the great granddaughters of Edna Thompson; Tori Ryan (now a teacher herself) great granddaughter of Min Laurence; Noah Forrest Mabilia, great grandson of Peter Forrest; and Cooper Walton, great grandson of Isa Niven.
Local school children, some of whom are the great grandchildren of the Cowes chi...
