I realised that little top-strips on two photos available on eBay from UK Photo Prints showed the Etruria Woods, across time.

1978 — very denuded, barely hanging on amid heathland as isolated bushes, clumps of bushes, and some hedgy trees along the top. A sad fate for what was one the idyllic ‘picnic playground’ woods known to Etruria’s people, and the haunt of H.G. Wells as he dreamed of the tale that would become The Time Machine.

1993 — the woods substantially replanted though only at their former northern end, presumably as part of the landscaping that accompanied the A500 road. But perhaps also further enhanced prior to the 1987 Garden Festival (which happened on the opposite side of the valley)?

Same viewpoint. Wolstanton church tower provides orientation, seen on the far right. You could only make the same photo today with a drone, as nearby trees are in the way.