Comments on: The Anniversary Of Saving Epping Forest https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/ 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, 12 Jul 2021 08:54:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Walter Braun https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1385244 Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:54:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1385244 Perhaps a good opportunity to remind the Lords that one can only genuinely own what one has produced – land is always only ever borrowed…

]]> By: Barry Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1385002 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:10:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1385002 Enjoyed the article. Very well told. Thanks for posting it and making available such a crucial story in the shaping of East London today. The Corporation of London has celebrated with a spate of parking meters and parking restrictions.

]]> By: stephanie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384977 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 05:23:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384977 Wonder what those working men would think today about the boutique hotel that will gut the Whitechapel Foundry. Despite being sympathetically attached at the back. Civilisation hey, an illusion.

]]> By: stephanie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384976 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 05:20:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384976 Great to read this tale about a place that remains very close to my heart. Also to to have evidence to show my children that grew up pond dipping and and den making amonst the Hornbeams and funghi that demonstrations can result in success. Time to revisit the Vestrey museum to find out more and to see the posters/pics.

I don’t remember a reference to this fight included within in the blooming brilliant exhibition – Posters of Protest and Revolution at the William Morris Gallery which was a few years ago. Time for one on the Forest. Wonder if the great activist, unionist, feminist, orator and author Eleanor Marx did her bit to rouse the Working Men (and women) into protest. Maybe her affections/energies were tied to Hampstead Heath instead.

]]> By: Bailey Jonex https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384960 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 21:26:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384960 Such a wonderful victory. I am reminded of what the people of my own northern town tried to do. They did not succeed initially but today people can walk across Winter Hill freely.
(Explored in this article)
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/jun/29/skylarks-sunshine-solidarity-winter-hill-lancashire-mass-trespass-west-pennines?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Power to the people, indeed.

]]> By: Ann V https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384942 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:39:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384942 Yes, a valuable history lesson for today, as sadly we see history repeating itself for greed. However, thankfully protest and campaigning can work.

]]> By: Penny Gardner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384938 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:01:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384938 How very interesting .I had no idea .
Born and bred in Enfield ,Epping Forest was a childhood treat (and also considered to be the dumping ground for bodies from London crime.)
I’m so glad they stopped old Lord Whatsit from cutting it down .

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384936 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 11:42:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384936 Interesting that the poet John Clare felt the impending doom of the ‘act of enclosure’ all around him and highlighted this in his work. Also, Clare spent many years of his life as a resident of an asylum situated in Epping Forest from which he eventually escaped and undertook his ‘long walk out of Essex’.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384932 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:52:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384932 What a story ! Sadly long forgotten by layers of time . Mark Gorman evokes this most important fight which still affects us today at a time when there few people around who can remind us all that all the benefits we have in our life were not given from above but fought for tooth and nail by previous generations . Nothing was given and everything was taken by the upper classes . Its only when people stood up for themselves and fought back that we are allowed to have the small pleasures that we enjoy today

]]> By: Libby Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/#comment-1384929 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:52:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187932#comment-1384929 What a marvellous article. Inspirational!

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