Very old, multi stemmed, sprawling over large area. Community Garden sometimes open on sundays, 12.00-16.00. In the Rookery of Streatham Common, tended to by the Streatham Common Community Garden, you can find a rather elderly black mulberry, at the top of the cold frames, towards the back yard [ed: on site of The Rookery, a house that was adjacent to 18th c Well House built to accommodate visitors to a spa discovered in 1659. The house was demolished in 1912. Several fruit trees were marked on 1864 1st edition OS map. The Well House was marked on John Rocque's 1746 map. In 1911 the was purchased by public subscription. The Rookery was presented to London County Council in 1912; it was then added to Streatham Common and opened as a public park in July 1913. A silk mill once stood nearby, at what is now Sainsbury's though mulberries are not needed for throwing silk, just for raising silkworms for silk, which was not practiced here. The Rookery mulberry is and always will have been a fruit tree.

Public transport: Streatham / Streatham Common rail

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