Comments on: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Tree https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Eddie Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191586 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:33:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191586 Is there no end to the power and corruption of property developers hand in hand with council authorities who completely ignore the wishes of the people, they are a law unto themselves. Surely we can no longer put up with having no voice in these matters.

Eddie Johnson (I have signed)

]]> By: Roger Bradbury https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191551 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:47:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191551 You have, of course, sent a hefty invoice for the use of your photo, having first checked to see if they are also using it online or anywhere else? If you haven’t thought of this already, it’s a bit of a PR cockup on their part; it might be embarrassing for them if this found its way to the news media…

]]> By: Bureboy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191545 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:01:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191545 Recentlyy developers local to me jsimply ust cut one down, damage done and too late for any thing useful to be done.

]]> By: Lucy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191527 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:19:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191527 A “survey they have commissioned which again – surprise, surprise – delivers their desired conclusion” sounds familiar.

The campaign to save Vittoria Wharf found the same, the Mayor of London commissioned a review (by TfL) on the Fish Island Bridges which concludes – surprise, surprise – that they should go ahead, even with its weak transport arguments. Before this review was even published, the plans for the Mayor’s demolition of Vittoria Wharf to build the footbridge were already well advanced. But Vittoria Wharf still stands and the fight continues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsZbMEWfZA

]]> By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191522 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:08:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191522 Has this tree been recorded on the Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Register and are the Woodland Trust aware of the threat?
If not, it needs to be done quickly just to give it a bit more protection/publicity.
I have looked at their website and am unable to establish this as I am not sure of its exact location. Apologies as I live a long way from this and unable to do it personally.
Where is the Mayor of London in all this?

I absolutely detest the way big businesses in this country are allowed to ride roughshod over every planning rule and politicians promote their green credentials and champion affordable housing whilst secretly colluding with each other.

]]> By: Leana Pooley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191521 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:54:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191521 Thank you so much for letting us know in such detail about the threat to this tree and about its history. Ancient trees should be listed in the same way that rare old houses and cathedrals are protected. I was fascinated by the “professional” opinions produced in favour of uprooting this tree. I was reminded of a time in the late 1970s when I was sueing, on behalf of my young son, the oil companies over the high levels of lead in petrol. I and my two fellow litigants were amazed to discover that a paediatrician at a well-known London hospital was prepared to give evidence on behalf of Shell, BP and Associated Octel (suppliers of lead) that lead – particularly when breathed in from pushchair-level – posed no danger to infants and young children. We have lead-free petrol now so I hope that this wonderful mulberry tree will live on to fight another day.

]]> By: Marina https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191515 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 10:56:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191515 I have duly registered my objection with the Tower Hamlets council. May the developer’s greed and folly be nipped in the bud!

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191514 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:41:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191514 Is it just me, or do I find the address to which one’s onjections should be sent deeply ironic?
Town Planning, Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London, E14 2BG

P.S. I trust you have got an apology from Crest N over the misuse of your photograph?

]]> By: Peter H https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191513 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:24:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191513 Petition signed
May their machinations come to haunt them
and they be they be hoist with their own petard.

]]> By: StephenJ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/14/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-tree/#comment-1191510 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 07:31:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163085#comment-1191510 As a newish reader of this magazine, I was unaware of this campaign.

I have always liked these trees though never realising their significance.

One of the things that I always enjoyed is the fruit, which if I happen to be around when ripe, gorge on. It is one of those fruits that can never be sold, it does not travel. It is a guarantee that if one is to be caught scrumping, you will not have a leg to stand on, the crimson staining being a major piece of damning evidence.

I also like the way they always seem to be held together with bits of wood, nuts and bolts and rope. There is an interesting example at Lesness Abbey in Abbey Wood. In Beckenham and surrounding areas, there are several that I frequently make a beeline for when walking.

They seem to hold the same reverence for people as yew trees, which I have travelled far and wide looking for. I even have a fallen piece of the Ankerwycke Yew sitting on the floor in my house, whose significance for me was that it is rumoured that the Magna Carta was sealed beneath its branches, when it was already 1500 years old. It sits on the opposite bank to the Runnymede memorial, within walking distance of a place that King John was known to stay in.

Anyway, petition signed.

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