Spadework by the Mayor to plant the 15 year-old horse chestnut tree at the Cricket Ground. Watching (from the left) are Mr. E. Cookson (of Howarth Construction Company who prepared the holes for the trees), Mr. H. T. Langton (chairman of the cricket club directors), Mr. Simon Towneley, and Mr. A. J. Mackenzie Clay.
Once again Burnley is blazing the trail, undertaking the biggest mature tree planting scheme in the country. And the organisers, Burnley Civic Trust, were congratulated by the Mayor (Ald. T. E. Gallagher). The first of the 41 mature trees, a 15 year-old horse chestnut was planted at Burnley Cricket Club on Friday the 14th August, 1964.
At the cricket ground members of the local authority, the Burnley Civic Trust and several individuals and business concerns who have financed the venture, took part in an informal ceremony. The trees came in two lorry loads from a wood at Borrowash near Derby. They were lifted by a process developed by Mr. A. J. Mackenzie Clay (whose firm is undertaking the project) using steel hawsers fastened to the trunks and pulled by two cranes, simultaneously from opposite directions.
On Wednesday the 20th August a number of planting ceremonies were held beginning at noon, at Burnley Bus Station/Safeway House, when the Mayor accepted the trees from Mr. Simon Towneley, as chairman of Burnley Civic Trust which planned and executed the 2,000 scheme.

Other planting sites include the Locarno, the canal embankment, the Burnley and Borough Building Societies, Martins Bank, Centenary Way, Aenon Chapel and Thomas Ashworth and Company premises at Gannow.