Thomas Hardy, best known as a writer but also studied to be an architect. In the 1660s he was asked to exhume the bodies of Old St Pancras church, UK.
Thomas Hardy is best known for his writing but earlier he studied to be an architect. During the 1660s he was asked to exhume the bodies of Old St Pancras Churchyard to make way for a new Midland railway line. The headstones were stacked up around this tree.
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