Click to look inside Shakespeare’s Mulberry as cultivated by David Garrick
Many readers will remember the unhappy day in September 2018 when Tower Hamlets Council voted to approve Crest Nicholson’s appalling London Chest Hospital redevelopment which damages the listed building and entails digging up the historic Bethnal Green Mulberry.
After two years of bureaucratic rigmarole, that permission has now been formally granted which means we can challenge it in the High Court. Already, we have employed top Environmental Lawyer Susan Ring of Harrison Grant Solicitors who has established there are grounds for Judicial Review and we must raise £10,000 to proceed before November 20th or the ancient Bethnal Green Mulberry will be dug up.
We are doing this with the help of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MULBERRY. In 1610, the poet planted a Mulberry tree in his garden in Stratford upon Avon. Unfortunately so many tourists came seeking branches as souvenirs that the owners cut it down in 1770. But the great Shakespearian actor David Garrick rescued a cutting which flourishes to this day.
We are offering a cutting of David Garrick’s tree to everyone who contributes £100 or more to our legal fund. This is a once in a lifetime chance to acquire a scion of Shakespeare’s Mulberry and enjoy a living connection to the world’s greatest writer.
Click on the link below to contribute and then send an email to the East End Preservation Society ([email protected]). You will receive your rooted cutting next year and together we will Save The Bethnal Green Mulberry.
CLICK HERE TO SAVE THE BETHNAL GREEN MULBERRY
We are delighted to welcome Dame Judi Dench as patron of our campaign
William Hogarth’s painting of Huguenot David Garrick who began the Shakespeare revival by playing Richard III at Goodman Fields Theatre in Aldgate in 1741
My Staffordshire figure of William Shakespeare flanked by Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth and her brother John Phillip Kemble as Hamlet
Our logo by Paul Bommer
Click here to read my feature in The Evening Standard about the scandal of the Bethnal Green Mulberry
Click here to read my feature in The Daily Telegraph about the scandal of the Bethnal Green Mulberry
Read more here about the Bethnal Green Mulberry
The Fate of the Bethnal Green Mulberry
The Bethnal Green Mulberry
A Letter to Crest Nicholson
A Reply From Crest Nicholson
The Reckoning With Crest Nicholson
SIGN OUR PETITION TO SAVE THE BETHNAL GREEN MULBERRY
This post first appeared on Spitalfields Life | In The Midst Of Life I Woke To, please read the originial post: here
