Ushaw

A picture of this yew appears in the December 1891 edition of the Ushaw Magazine. It was taken in 1883 and ‘shows the huge trunk of the tree with a few green branches almost lost among the others, broken and dead. Five years later the last sign of life was gone.’ We have been unable to locate this picture.
This is how the Ushaw magazine recorded it: “In the forenoon of Friday, September 25th (1891), between the hours of ten and eleven, the old yew tree came down. Our readers will bear with us, we trust for this sudden and abrupt announcement of such a calamity; for we must frankly acknowledge that we have been unable by any cunning to devise a form of words by which we might convey the sad intelligence more gently, and thus break the fall of the yew to them. Yes, the dear old tree is gone and is seen no more ; but that its memory may still live and be preserved unto generations to come; we reproduce in this number of the Magazine two of the best representations of it.”
The article also mentions that ‘not far from the field where the yew once stood are five young yews planted to take the old one’s place.’