Today, we are back in Calderstones Park in Liverpool in search of the legendary Allerton oak tree. Legend says the tree, which is an Irish Oak, is up to 1000 years old, but research shows it's probably about 550 years old. It is reputed to have been the setting for a medieval hundered court and to have been damaged in an 1864 gunpowder explosion.
The tree and the land it stands on were owned by Henry and Charles MacIver from 1875 until 1902 when they gave it to the Liverpool Corporation to form Calderstones Park. The tree became a landmark, and during the second world war soldiers were sent acorns and leaves from the tree as good luck tokens from family and friends, as a result seedlings from the tree are thought to have been grown across the world.