This week’s aerial photograph shows part of Feniscowles and Cherry Tree in Blackburn in 1995. Livesey Branch Road runs across the bottom of the picture with the canal almost running parallel to it.

Drone pictures show to full effect the orchard, which is thought to be the largest of the variety – also known as Great White Cherry – outside Japan. This species of tree was thought to have died out ...

I offer the birds a cornucopia ... oriole brightened up the tree one day. Even seedeaters such as cardinals, house finches and house sparrows joined in the cherry feast.