Saturday morning was summer and clear so I made a start on cutting all the branches back to the main trunks.
The next morning there was only a relatively small pile of ash, amazing when you consider how much foliage this was...
The ultimate plan is to replace with hedge with a living willow weave fence, something like this...
So the garden now looks like a bomb site again but I got my first bit of sun in months, that at least was wonderful!