Originally Posted by
JMLE
I don't know how true this is...
'Knotty Ash is also rumored to be mentioned in the nursery rhyme The Owl and the Pussycat, in the line "to the land where the bong tree grows". The bong tree is rumored to be the knotted Ash tree which once stood by an ancient row of cottages called the little bongs'
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Knotty_Ash
Thank you JMLE and Fortinian.
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Ken Pye in his Discover Liverpool book and dvd also mentions this which could be a re-hash but am I right in thinking though that if the bong tree is rumoured to be the knotted Ash which once stood by an ancient row of cottages that were already called the little bongs then that doesn't tell us which came first?
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