Comments on: Save The Bethnal Green Mulberry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-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 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Adele Leffman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1221587 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:47:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1221587 Some years ago an ancient tree in the garden of the Pewterers’ Hall in Oat Lane was threatened by a large American firm who were building on the adjoining site. This would have blotted out any light for the tree and condemned it to a slow death. A petition was launched and happily the owners accepted a different design which threw even more sunlight on the tree than hitherto. It also resulted in an amazing feat of engineering which gave them a most striking building. To their everlasting credit they paid a much larger bill than expected and did it with a very good grace.

So big money doesn’t always win, David conquered Goliath and we must fight on in the hope that the mulberry tree will also survive as it has done all these years.

Adele Leffman, City of London Guide

]]> By: Maggie Thwaites https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1169776 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:01:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1169776 I am sick of big business and Councils many of whom employ people who have no idea or interest in the history and heritage of this country or this particular area in dispute and how important it is to so many of us.

]]> By: Helga Edstrom https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168851 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:27:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168851 Shared in the West Midlands and wider. We lost a beautiful mature Plane Tree thanks to Birmingham City Council who deemed it to be in the wrong place. It had been happy there for 250 years…… Murder.

]]> By: E Berris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168344 Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:14:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168344 It was the London trees I missed dreadfully when I lived in the botanists’ paradise that is New Zealand. Every effort should be made to save them, especially those with such a history as this mulberry. It is clearly seems too fragile to be moved successfully but should continue to flourish if left where it stands – a real pleasure for everyone living and working in the new development.

]]> By: Carole Copeland https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168144 Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:02:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168144 My father’s family were from Bethnal Green and he played in Victoria park in the 1930’s
No more wanton destruction from greedy developers.
We are having a very similar fight in East Kent right now so good luck,

]]> By: Mary Moulder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168050 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:55:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168050 May God protect His Creation, this legally historical tree, from the cultural greed blight of humans. This mulberry tree has only given to our Huguenot heritage, and should not be held guilty of being in the way of greed.

]]> By: E Brining https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168040 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:15:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168040 Do not dig up or harm this mulberry tree.

]]> By: Chris Ashby https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168039 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 20:55:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168039 Just signed. Thanks for drawing to our attention.
Chris A.

]]> By: Janine Evelyn-Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168036 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 20:37:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168036 No more wanton destruction!

]]> By: Louis Berk https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/09/save-the-bethnal-green-mulberry/#comment-1168018 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:52:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160129#comment-1168018 Ahhh. The venal desires of Tower Hamlets Council to allow any amount of housing to be built at the extent of the borough’s history. I believe the council will only be contented when it has laid waste the entire east end and flattened it to build as much mixed housing developments as possible – sold to the public on the basis of the provision of an insultingly small number of ‘affordable’ (don’t make me laugh!) homes. The problem here is that generations of east enders with an investment in the history and community of the area have moved out.

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