The mystery of the Queen's missing tree has been solved.

Dartmouth residents have been taking a royal trip down memory lane to spell out exactly where the tree was planted when the Queen visited the town in 1962.

The royal planting took place in Coronation Park beside the seats and wooden shelter, which was built for the town by the Old Dartmothians in 1951, next to the embankment .

According to Alan Morris it was placed on the right side of the shelter looking at the park's tennis courts but was removed years ago after it was vandalised.

Another Dartmothian who has very good reason to remember the tree planting is 60-year-old Judith Goatcher – who was 10-year-old Judith Pook when the Queen visited her hometown.

Judith, who was the head girl at Dartmouth Primary School that year, was chosen to present the Queen with a bouquet of flowers.

She still treasures the formal royal invitation which went to her and her parents.

'It was a big privilege,' she said.

She remembered that it was a 'horrible day' as far as the weather was concerned.