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Get a big house and share it

Posted on April 2, 2021 by chris-coates

(This is the personal story of how I got into communal living                                        – and what happened when I did. ) I Continue reading Get a big house and share it→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living | Tagged 1970s, Communal living, squatting

Not dirty hippie squatters at all

Posted on March 23, 2021 by chris-coates

At the short-life licensed squat on Camden Park Road we somehow seemed to collect people… We clearly needed a bigger house. Continue reading Not dirty hippie squatters at all→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living, hippies | Tagged 1970s, squatting

I had meant to do a tour of communes

Posted on March 19, 2021 by chris-coates

I spent the summer after leaving the Hampstead Lane squat in London earning enough money working in a bakery to buy a motorbike Continue reading I had meant to do a tour of communes→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged 1970s, Burnley, Findhorn, People in Common

Mill owners out on a stroll

Posted on February 14, 2021 by chris-coates

A year or so before I joined People in Common had bought a derelict cornmill with a three and half acre field on the banks of the River Calder some five miles from the houses in Burnley. Continue reading Mill owners out on a stroll→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged Altham Corn Mill, Nick Albery, People in Common, woofers

“No toilet and what if I got pregnant ?”

Posted on February 1, 2021 by chris-coates

So we set up Altham Workers Co-op and set off on something of an adventure in running our own business. There was definitely an element of making it up as we went along. Continue reading “No toilet and what if I got pregnant ?”→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged Altham Workers Co-operative, People in Common, Womein in Manual Trades

Singing for our lives

Posted on January 6, 2021 by chris-coates

At PIC when I arrived the only music that was going on was that Barbara was learning to play Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer on an old upright piano she had jammed into her to tiny downstairs front room bedroom Continue reading Singing for our lives→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged 1980s, Burnley, People in Common, Singing for our lives

So how did we decide that

Posted on December 31, 2020 by chris-coates

If you had asked me in the past what our decision making process was at People in Common I would have said we used consensus, or more correctly I would now say we used the unanimity form of consensus process that was prevelant at the time. Continue reading So how did we decide that→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged consensus decision making, People in Common

Searching for ABC

Posted on December 19, 2020 by chris-coates

People In Common was nothing if not ambitious from it’s start in the mid-seventies.In it’s very first leaflet there was the suggestion of maybe finding a derelict village somewhere Continue reading Searching for ABC→

Posted in A Life in Common, communal connections, Communal Living, People In Common

Xmas is coming…

Posted on November 21, 2020 by chris-coates

I guess we were trying to make a political point. Something along the lines of ‘this festival really has no meaning for us and we’re only going along with it because everyone else is’. Continue reading Xmas is coming…→

Posted in A Life in Common, Communal Living, People In Common, Welfare State International

All That Way for This

Posted on October 10, 2020 by chris-coates

We had always known (Worried?) that when we finally moved to the Mill the nature of the group would change. Maybe subtley, maybe in fundamental ways… Continue reading All That Way for This→

Posted in Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged Vision Building

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