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This little piggy stayed at home

Posted on January 31, 2020 by chris-coates

In between squatting in London and joining People In Common I moved back to Leicester for a while and devised a one man puppet and clowning show entitled ‘This little piggy stayed at home’. Continue reading This little piggy stayed at home→

Posted in Communal Living, People In Common | Tagged Communes, squatting

Not dirty hippie squatters at all

Posted on January 16, 2020 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 Communal Living, hippies | Tagged 1970s, squatting

Get a big house and share it

Posted on January 11, 2020 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 Communal Living | Tagged 1970s, Communal living, squatting

Communes – The Musical(s)

Posted on July 11, 2014 by chris-coates

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)→

Posted in hippies | Tagged 1970s, Festivals, Findhorn, Jesus Freaks, squatting

Squatting in Billionaires Row

Posted on February 14, 2014 by chris-coates

A couple of weeks ago the Guardian ran a story with the headline  – Inside ‘Billionaires Row’: London’s rotting, derelict mansions worth £350m – about the large number of huge empty mansions being left to rot while there is a Continue reading Squatting in Billionaires Row→

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