HW: Free Festivals

[Alastair Sumner]

1987 would make sense because the police seemed a little reluctant to lay
right in after the roasting they got after the battle of the beanfield. So
in 87 you could get almost to the stones but they were surrounded by riot
police. But 88 must have been the year when they really enforced the 4 mile
exclusion zone and killed off the Stonehenge festival.

Are there any travellers left in the UK now? I know that after the criminal
justice bill was introduced many went to mainland Europe and beyond.

Alastair.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:40:59 +0100, M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:

>Alastair Sumner writes:
>
>> Last weekend's festival has got me looking around on the web for
Stonehenge
>> and Free Festival stuff. Check this site out http://tash.gn.apc.org/ It
>> documents the lives of those involved in the travelling, free festival,
>> free rave and protest cultures. There are alot of photos from the 80s and
>> early 90s and it is interesting to look back on it all these years later.
>> There are 1 or 2 of photos of Hawkwind in the 'live music' photography
>> gallery. Does anyone know what year Hawkwind played at a big site where
>> everyone gathered to walk to the stones on the Solstice? I think maybe it
>> was Cholderton Woods. I'm sure it was either 87, 88 or 89. Anyone know
for
>> definite?
>
>IIRC it was the layby on the back road out of Ambridge in 1987. It's
>about a mile from the Stones.
>
>
>FoFP