On the west side of the garden (there's another one on the east side) hidden by brambles. "These mulberries are in the grounds of what was Camb.erwell House Lunatic Asylum which was opened 1846. The hospital took over several large houses built in 1790. There is also a large mulberry tree on the opposite side of Peckham Road behind buildings which were once more of those large 1790s houses." (local resident Liz Sibthorpe)

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