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Leaving

Posted on December 26, 2020 by chris-coates

…Some 2 or 3 years before leaving I realised that People In Common was never going to be the ideal community that I had in my head. Continue reading Leaving→

Posted in A Life in Common, 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

Lantern HOUSE

Posted on December 12, 2020 by chris-coates

The process of creating LANTERNHOUSE was unique. There was an unusual partnership between the client (WSI artists), the architect and the builder. Continue reading Lantern HOUSE→

Posted in A Life in Common, Welfare State International

Odd Weddings

Posted on December 5, 2020 by chris-coates

Not having got married me and Kate didn’t even have an anniversary marker date to hang a celebration on if we had wanted too. Continue reading Odd Weddings→

Posted in A Life in Common, Welfare State International | Tagged Trevor Howell, Welfare State International

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

Doing Up The Mill – Again (& other work)

Posted on November 20, 2020 by chris-coates

During the autumn after the construction of the Cruck Barn in Ulverston a small team of us set to work fitting out the top two floors of the ‘square side’ of the Mill. Continue reading Doing Up The Mill – Again (& other work)→

Posted in A Life in Common, People In Common | Tagged Altham Corn Mill

Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding Part 2

Posted on November 14, 2020 by chris-coates

People In Common would utilise much of this new information to take control of it’s next funeral following the death of member Malcolm Cockcroft in the late 1990’s Continue reading Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding Part 2→

Posted in A Life in Common, People In Common, Welfare State International | Tagged Dead Good Funerals Book, Dead good guides, Welfare State International

BARN 2

Posted on November 7, 2020 by chris-coates

The day of the frame raising was the point where construction and performance intersected. In a one-off never-to-be-repeated event … Continue reading BARN 2→

Posted in A Life in Common, Welfare State International | Tagged Cruck Barn, The Ellers, Welfare State International

BARN 1

Posted on October 31, 2020 by chris-coates

The decision to build a replacement workshop using medieval building techniques, with a largely volunteer labour force, was arrived at by a sort of osmosis of ideas… Continue reading BARN 1→

Posted in A Life in Common, Welfare State International | Tagged Cruck Barn, Welfare State International

HOUSE

Posted on October 24, 2020 by chris-coates

HOUSE was an ambitious attempt to apply the artist-led-community-engaged ethos of WSI to a construction project… Continue reading HOUSE→

Posted in A Life in Common, Welfare State International | Tagged On the Street Bolton, Walter Segal, Welfare State International

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