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Month: March 2020

Notes on the history of Altham Corn Mill

Posted on March 28, 2020 by chris-coates

So most of the stories that we told ourselves back in the 1970s & ’80s about the Mill turn out to have some basis in history – even if we didn’t get the facts or dates quite right. Continue reading Notes on the history of Altham Corn Mill→

Posted in People In Common | Tagged Altham Corn Mill

Urban Myth & Magic

Posted on March 21, 2020 by chris-coates

We went to more theatre/music/art in Burnley than I ever did when I lived in London – partly because you couldn’t quite believe what was being put on in this post industrial backwater Continue reading Urban Myth & Magic→

Posted in People In Common | Tagged Burnley, Mid Pennine Arts, Victoria Theatre Burnley, Welfare State International

So how did we decide that

Posted on March 13, 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 Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged consensus decision making, People in Common

Singing for our lives

Posted on March 6, 2020 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 Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged 1980s, Burnley, People in Common, Singing for our lives

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