The Mysterious Heaton Shoe Tree. An inexplicably shoe-covered tree in Heaton, Newcastle. I was wandering through Armstrong Park in Newcastle the other day, when I came upon an unusual sight. In a small clearing there were three or four trees, each littered with hundreds of pairs of shoes. I still have no idea how .

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