The recent post about steps being taken to save an ancient Baobab in a Darwin car park prompted Melbourne journalist Kim Lockwood to send us his pictorial file on the self same tree which is located in what used to be the Darwin High School grounds .
His sister , Dale , attended the school and is photographed above right hugging the Baobab at the school's 50th anniversary reunion in 2006 .
During her childhood days in Darwin where her father , Douglas, was the Melbourne Herald representative , and mother, Ruth , involved in running the North Australian Eisteddfod , Dale had the painful experience of treading on a stonefish and was piggy backed home by Kim and taken to hospital .
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Darwin High School in 1950s , the Baobab a central feature , and old Sydney Williams huts used as classrooms .
The Baobab in the 1930s. Over the years the tree has survived cyclones , the Japanese bombing raids and is thought to be 150-200 years old .
Darwin agronomist Rob Wesley-Smith was recently shown in this blog affectionately patting a Milkwood tree, a survivor of Cyclone Tracy , which he had Heritage listed .
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