The sycamore tree that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used to sit in as a school boy  has been cut down.  Doyle, the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes was born one hundred and fifty years ago.  When the roots of the tree in an Edinburgh suburb were determined to be too rotten it had to be cut down.  The teachers and students of the schoolhouse in which Conan Doyle was brought up decided to have a violin crafted from the tree.

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