Comments on: The Whitechapel Mulberry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 31 May 2016 11:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter Shead https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-1091276 Tue, 31 May 2016 11:40:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-1091276 We used to have a large Mulberry tree in our back garden at 162 Albion Road, Stoke Newington. bigger than this one …big enough to build a seating platform at the top. The very week we moved out the main branch fell off…Must have been an omen…

]]> By: Margaret Keith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-1091269 Tue, 31 May 2016 10:55:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-1091269 So delighted to hear about this old Mulberry tree. From 1960 to 1966 I lived in Stepney Way in the Luckes nurses home behind the Royal London Hospital, as a student nurse and then SRN. Frequented the “Sammy” many times and never knew about the little yard behind with the Mulberry tree. Thank you for letting us know about it. I remember the flats next door. Many changes since my time. Your cat Syd looks so contented. I have a grey one called Friday. Good wishes from Cornwall.

]]> By: Michael Bundy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-1091259 Tue, 31 May 2016 10:09:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-1091259 Possible opportunity here for a silk-growing industry in Spitalfields. I wonder no-one else has thought of it !

]]> By: Patricia Celeveland-Peck https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-949776 Wed, 06 May 2015 10:06:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-949776 It may be a bit off TGA’s usual circuit but there is ( or used to be…) a very old mulberry in a tiny secret garden sandwiched between the walls of Greenwich Park. It was known as the Dwarf Orchard and was a mysterious wilderness until a few years ago. Now I believe it has been stripped and re-landscaped and opened as The Queen’s Garden. The history is very interesting – and the mulberry was often referred to as ‘the oldest in London’ ( but so are several others)
Still G.A it might be one for your collection…

]]> By: Barbara https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-949191 Sat, 02 May 2015 09:08:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-949191 Wonderful discovery !

]]> By: Sharon Carr https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-949187 Sat, 02 May 2015 08:41:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-949187 A hidden forest of mulberry trees, rooted in neglected, forgotten corners of Spitalfields, minded by their committed custodians like sculptor Roy and his 3-legged cat. O Gentle Author, I am much heartened that, so far, there are some scraps of London that remain unchanged albeit modified but still flourishing. Thank you for these timely little reminders that you post and may these continue to remain untouched by those cynical property developers who lurk outside.

]]> By: sPauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-948895 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:55:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-948895 I too love all of this and the special three legged cat, it’s wonderful how these trees survive and how cats seem to manage so well on three legs. Thank you again GA.

]]> By: Sarahc https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-948812 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:56:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-948812 I love this tour of the mulberries –

]]> By: Sarah L Baldwin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-948795 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:50:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-948795 After delighting in this latest London Mulberry, I went back to look again at your piece on Mr. Emmins’ work (where I was pleased to find a message I’d left two and a half years ago).

Dear Gentle Author, I hope that one day you’ll be given a Key to the City. You have given all of us keys to the wonderful hidden pockets of the city, and I am so grateful.

Sally

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/30/the-whitechapel-mulberry/#comment-948746 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:30:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=133280#comment-948746 Have you got enough now for a Mulberry Forest? They just keep turning up. It’s somehow reassuring that enough people over so many years have chosen to keep these trees. Don’t let British Land know about them.

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