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The story of Wakefield Prison and the origin of a nursery rhyme

The old prison gates "Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
On a cold and frosty morning."  

This well-known children's nursery rhyme may have begun life as a song or chant by inmates of Wakefield prison as they exercised around a mulberry bush within the prison grounds.

The mulberry bush (or more accurately, tree) still thrives at the prison today.

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