In my old primary school, there used to be a huge copper beech set into the grass playing fields. We used to sit on it's splaying roots and sometimes (season permitting) collect the nuts and lay them on the ground to make pictures.
Now I am told Beech trees are called widow-makers due to their prediliction for droping boughs onto unsuspecting people hiding from heavy rainfall. Indeed, if any tree is affected by strong winds, it is nearly always the beech which seem to split or even uproot quite easily.
Their wood does not burn exceptionally well and I am told is most used for the interior of furniture, such a sofas and the like.
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