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Month: March 2021

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

Like owning your own squat

Posted on March 7, 2021 by chris-coates

I’ve been trying to recall my first visit to People In Common which, from what scant records I have of that time, must have been sometime during the winter of 1977/78. Continue reading Like owning your own squat→

Posted in A Life in Common, People In Common, Uncategorized | Tagged 1970s, Communal living, People in Common

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