Comments on: The Oldest Tree In The East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 03 Jan 2024 08:07:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Severine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1536083 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 08:07:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-1536083 There is a very big Mulberry tree at Mulberry school for girls on Commercial Road. We used to eat the fruit every summer.

]]> By: Helen Abraham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1372057 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:50:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-1372057 I have a HUGE mulberry tree in my back garden in Clapton. Very wide girth that I can’t get my arms around. Must be quite old given the sizes of the others on your blogs about it.

]]> By: Janice Staines https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1165629 Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:22:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-1165629 Chris Dixon and Kate Hogkins might be pleased to hear that a cutting taken from the Coborn Mulberry Tree is now thriving in the Coopers Coborn School in Upminster. It obviously likes its new location as it is still fruiting each year.

]]> By: Melanie Gadsdon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145528 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 05:17:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-1145528 It makes me so mad to see greedy developers taking over London, building high rises, ugly blocks of flats by the old Father Thames, buildings everywhere and now this lovely old building and the sweet tree (I’m an absolute tree lover) being wrecked, yet again, by greedy developer purely for making space for overcrowding London or making money. It’s time the Government should put a stop to this. Enough is enough.
PS: Can we not save the tree and put it somewhere safely around the centre of London?

]]> By: Tania Lopes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145381 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:27:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-1145381 Oh que bom nos mostrar isso. Tive uma experiência também assim, muito triste, quando na reforma da biblioteca próxima de casa, derrubaram uma árvore amoreira em flor, com seus frutos, porque ela vivia onde agora construiriam um muro. Todos os dias que passava por ali, eu a tocava, tocava em suas folhas, comia dos seus deliciosos frutos… isso por anos. Quando a vi deitada no chão, me veio a cólera, e os funcionários ordenados àquela reforma da construção do muro, compadeceram-se comigo… Apanhei um pequeno galho dela e levei-o comigo.

Saúde!

]]> By: Sally hiller https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1145215 Sun, 09 Apr 2017 21:40:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-1145215 All the years trying to save London Chest hospital in vain, attended many fetes then attended as patient with apnoea. So sad Barts is further and anonymous. Tower Hamlets already massacred many trees, like cherries in St Stephen’s road E3. Why do you want to take down the mulberry tree which has so much history? All for profit.

]]> By: Emma Jacob https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-1091054 Mon, 30 May 2016 09:43:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-1091054 I worked at the London Chest in the ICU. I loved that hospital and it always felt like ‘home’ to me. Can’t quite believe it has shut (although I knew it was going to happen).
I also can’t understand why it isn’t listed!! I fear for the tree, like others have said, it is almost certain to be ‘accidentally damaged’ to the extent it has to be removed – the fine is much less than the potential profit that can be made here.
End of an era!!

]]> By: Mareck https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-969173 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 23:05:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-969173 If they follow the plans in the sale document it looks like the area where this particular tree won’t be built on (but will be rather close!) For those who’ve never been the tree is situated near the left corner of hospital.
If they don’t at least keep the facade they’re crackers…

http://www.essentia.uk.com/assets/000/000/212/The_London_Chest_original.pdf?1422030910

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-945959 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:06:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-945959 I can confirm that although there are Tree Preservation Orders in place for several trees on this site, the London Chest Hospital is not listed either locally or nationally

]]> By: Tim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/24/the-oldest-tree-in-the-east-end/#comment-945911 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:45:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133150#comment-945911 Is it really true that the main building isn’t listed? Or just what the security guard said? I’d be really suprised if it isn’t. There are a lot of other buildings in the hosptial grounds that are newer, quite horrible and some in pretty bad condition. No-one would be upset if they were knocked down. But the main 1855 building? They’d be insane to knock that down.

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