<p>A postcard sent to Ted Claxton. Showing the Fig Tree Tomb, in St Mary's Churchyard, Watford, London, England. This was a 19th-century curiosity. A fig tree was growing out of an unnamed tomb, and the legend had it that an atheist man or woman had hoped that if there were a god, then they would show some evidence of existence in the tomb - and that evidence was thought to be the fig tree.
</p><p>In the picture you can see the trunk of the tree growing from under the stone lid. It has no leaves because it is winter.
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(Information sources: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk/content/our-history/stmarys/the-legend-of-fig-tree-tomb">Watford Museum Team</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2019/08/28/the-fig-tree-tomb-of-watford/">Stephen Liddell</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/4335401.the-legend-of-the-fig-tree/">Watford Observer</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lpOIAwAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PT144&amp;dq=st%20mary%27s%20watford%20churchyard&amp;pg=PT144#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"><i>Watford Through Time</i> by John Cooper</a>
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1905-02-07
Scan of original postcard in my possession