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
Why a generation that had grown up in the shadow of one world war and just lived through a second would set up intentional communities driven by thoughts of impending doom and of founding refuges and ‘Arks’ is perhaps understandable (See How Continue reading How Many Arks Does it Take? Part 2
Lonesome Stone the Musical On the 11th July 1973 a new multi-media rock musical entitled Lonesome Stone opened at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park London. Following hot on the heels of other Christian based rock operas like Godspell and Continue reading Communes – The Musical(s)
Back in 1979 a group of us from People in Common, the small community I was living at in Burnley in East Lancashire, went down to Bristol for a Co-operatives Fair – this was something of a heyday period for Continue reading ‘Blockbuster’ commune movies
