Postcard - The Beech Hedge Meikleour Height 100 feet Length 1/3 mile planted 1745 (on front). On rear: "Published by J.B. White Ltd., Dundee - Real Photograph (copyright) / Greetings and Good Luck - The Best of All Series" This postcard is in a blue binder labelled "2008.5 Re: Pte. Arthur Welch 231 & 72 Bns CEF" and "A0505.7 - 48". The Meikleour Hedge is found at Meikleour in Scotland. Running alongside the A93 between Perth and Blairgowrie, this is an extraordinary solid wall of beech trees. The hedge, for a long time officially the highest in the world, is over 100 feet high at its tallest point and a third of a mile long.It was planted in 1745 by Robert Murray Nairne. This was the year of the Jacobite Rising, and Nairne and many of the men who worked with him and helped to plant the hedge went on to fight for the Jacobites in the Battle of Culloden in the following year. He was killed at Culloden. His wife, Jean Mercer of Meikleour let the newly planted beech hedge grow up to heaven in memoriam of her lost husband and friends. And to this day it has remained there as a monument to her grief.