Crumbs - 10 years on - Newbury anyone?

[William of Walworth]

Just seen this and brought it to Stig's attention!

We hope to be coming along (very handy for us!! ) but annoyingly, I'll now need to get out of seeing my parents Tuesday evenng ... mmmm.

Aurora : P5 bus will do you nicely -- heads back to Brixton from just outside the pub

 

[aurora green]

Cheers William.

I just downloaded the first film and watched it, because well, I'm not too good at persuading everyone out of the house on cold winter nights, and I've got no baby sitters, but it was sooo good.
Well made, and really moving.
Unfortunately (for me) the Rickety Bridge film is not downloadable, and I really want to see that because I feel quite especially connected to that camp, so maybe I'll make it up to Elephant, and besides after watching the first film, I really just wanted to hug someone who understood just what we all went through; such an emotional attatchment to the landscape, the wonderful trust and commeradery between strangers etc...

 

[bluestreak]

hey, i've just seen this whole thread, and jsut wanted to knid of join in a bit.

i spent a bit of time at newbury in february 1996 and i might well try and get down to this film tomorrow. it would be a great thing to see.

 

[William of Walworth]

We'll do our very best to get there in time for both films ... you know how it is when you live really near somewhere where somthing's happening, the nearest neighbours are the latest sometimes!

 

[William of Walworth]

Hope you make it, aurora and bluestreak, I'll probably be in the minority there -- people who were at Newbury should outnumber those who weren't, I predict ...

 

[twysted]

i only did a google search on newbury the other day and as well as being very happy to find this site. i also found loads of excellent old pictures includinmg some of me and my tree house (rickety bridge). i thought i would put up a link.http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/331633.html. the pics i liked were of the rescue across the river i am wearing red hair and the stripy jumper. i was body piercing protesters in the kitchens of the clock tower regularly and i lived on rickety bridge for about 4 months and knocked around middle oak for a month or two.

 

[Blagsta]

Quite a few of my mates were at Newbury. Don't think I'll be making the film showing though.

 

[aurora green]

Welcome to the boards twysted!

 

[twysted]

nice one cheers aroura queen. i am just sat here looking at my pictures of newbury unfortunatly i dont have a working scanner at the mo but hey. i kinda had a nervous breakdown after newbury so i never really got in touch with anyone who was there afterwards. it is nice to find this site. i will be posting pictures soon.

 

[dennisr]

My dad's a jcb driver - got hired to work on the site(s) at the time of the protests - did not know anything about what was going on though.

Drove all the way there to get the digger on site - hours at the speed that thing travels. Arrived - at which point someone approached him to explain the reasons for the protest etc (someone, who's hand i still want to shake). He told the contracter to piss off despite being right out of pocket, turned around and drove the many hours back home.

Still very proud about that as the folk who were involved should be for the stand they took. (my old man's not exactly mr. green or mr. leftie or anysuch)

 

[aurora green]

i kinda had a nervous breakdown after newbury so i never really got in touch with anyone who was there afterwards...

Sorry to hear that twysted. It was such an intense time, affected people in all sorts of ways, and very hard to get over really.

Look forward to seeing your pictures though...
Is this you then?

 

[aurora green]

My dad's a jcb driver - got hired to work on the site(s) at the time of the protests - did not know anything about what was going on though.

Drove all the way there to get the digger on site - hours at the speed that thing travels. Arrived - at which point someone approached him to explain the reasons for the protest etc (someone, who's hand i still want to shake). He told the contracter to piss off despite being right out of pocket, turned around and drove the many hours back home.

Still very proud about that as the folk who were involved should be for the stand they took. (my old man's not exactly mr. green or mr. leftie or anysuch)

(((dennisrs' dad)))

 

[twysted]

lmao yes that is me. i cant remember the girls name but she was scottish and i had been teaching her to abseil she had done it a couple of times so she had no safty rope on and she let go of her rope and fell about 30 feet. the paramedics just didn't know how to get her over the river so we had to hijack her back and get her over the river ourselves. good news was she had no injuries.

 

[bluestreak]

well i won't be making it tonight sadly. welcome to the boards twysted.

 

[twysted]

Some Road Protest videos, including 'A Road To Ruin'.

You will need Bittorrent (there's a Bittorrent for Dummies thread in the techy forum).

Sad

can anybody help me with why this link isnt working please.

 

[aurora green]

can anybody help me with why this link isnt working please.

There's a thread here all about bittorrent, but it's something I've not managed to do yet.

 

[William of Walworth]

Should think Stig knows a bit more(partly from that thread) about this bittorrent thing ... or Velouria, come to that!

Welcome, twysted and nice story about dennisr's dad

I wish I'd got involved or even just visited ...
I've heard some inspiring and fascinating stories from Stig and others though ..

Looking forward to the films soon ...

 

[twysted]

now this is probably a long shot but is STIG the same lovely young lass i met at trolheim and fairmile.

 

[William of Walworth]

now this is probably a long shot but is STIG the same lovely young lass i met at trolheim and fairmile.

Yeah, definitely the same, she was at both, Trolleheim more than Fairmile, she wasn't one of that hippy lot , Trolleheim was her place (including one or two of those currently in Yorkshire).

Just got back from three! brilliant films, none of which I'd ever seen, really brought it all home to me (absent from Newbury )

Good to see Shane, andy, aurora ...

Went to the pub after, and at closing, we noticed they'd chucked the main pub sign into a skip! (Various refurbishments, or worse, going on ).

My local since 1994 ..... We were drunk otherwise we wouldn't have bothered with a fifteen foot plank of painted wood, but home it had to come. The only way it was possible to get the bloody great thing into the lift was for Stig to go up indoors and bring the saw down, we took turns on the sawing but she knows her woodsawing techniques better ...

We now have a pub sign waiting to be repaired, repainted and put up in the bedroom (the only wall long enough in our bijou flat!).

Relevance? Things I never learnt but Stig did.

 

[twysted]

yeah definatly the same stig then cos she wouldn't be associated with hippies. i met her there along with another irish lass called meave( sorry on spelling). i never saw them again after going to an earth first gathering in wales.

 

[rowan]

This doesn't need any words, watch and weep Wild Horses at Newbury

 

[ddraig]

This doesn't need any words, watch and weep Wild Horses at Newbury

 

[William of Walworth]

Is that the ten minute one where the black horses try to get involved against some tree felling etc.?

We saw it tonight as an introduction!

twysted : will bring your post to Stig's attention ...

 

[ddraig]

Is that the ten minute one where the black horses try to get involved against some tree felling etc.?

We saw it tonight as an introduction!

stryke : will bring your post to Stig's attention ...

yes but it's only about 5mins on that link

 

[William of Walworth]

yes but it's only about 5mins on that link

May have been 5. Too drunk now to remember ....

 

[twysted]

WoW yes please do thankyou.

 

[aurora green]

Just got back from three! brilliant films, none of which I'd ever seen, really brought it all home to me (absent from Newbury )

Good to see Shane, andy, aurora ...

Went to the pub after, and at closing, we noticed they'd chucked the main pub sign into a skip! (Various refurbishments, or worse, going on ).

My local since 1994 ..... We were drunk otherwise we wouldn't have bothered with a fifteen foot plank of painted wood, but home it had to come. The only way it was possible to get the bloody great thing into the lift was for Stig to go up indoors and bring the saw down, we took turns on the sawing but she knows her woodsawing techniques better ...


Relevance? Things I never learnt but Stig did.

Great story!
Lovley evening. Sorry to leave without saying goodbye, but what with it starting a bit late, things got a bit late and much as I really wanted to stay for the last film, I kind of had to do the right thing and keep everyone happy
Great films though. I defy anyone to watch them and not feel emotional at the end. Really brought home what was fought for, and what was lost forever...

 

[William of Walworth]

Great story!
Lovley evening. Sorry to leave without saying goodbye, but what with it starting a bit late, things got a bit late and much as I really wanted to stay for the last film, I kind of had to do the right thing and keep everyone happy
Great films though. I defy anyone to watch them and not feel emotional at the end. Really brought home what was fought for, and what was lost forever...

Great to see you.

We had a great old Newbury chat down the pub, shame you couldn't stay and join in!!

Well there's always Saturday

Yes, those films, excellent, I wish more people could see them. If anyone knows how to download the Battle of Rickety Bridge I think we'd like to have it ...

 

[andyworthington]

Hi all,
Excellent evening. Good to see so many people there, and to wish a belated Happy New Year to old friends and to meet new people too. I'd never seen any of the films before and I thought all three were excellent.
As for showing the films elsewhere, this is something that will certainly happen. Plans are afoot to show them on a Monday evening sometime in the spring at the Ritzy in Brixton, and I'm intending to get in touch with other places in London and further afield - Brighton, Slough, Reading - in the hope of showing them there too. I'll keep y'all posted - and if anyone out there has any suggestions, contacts etc. post 'em here or contact me directly: [email protected]
The thing is, it was sad to see the destruction of so many trees in the films last night, but important to remember that the Newbury campaign put a stop to government road plans for many years. Neo-Labour has since ressurected many of them, of course, but as a result of the heyday of the anti-roads protest from '92 -'96 local people are now much more empowered to stage their own direct action protests. A good place to find out about current road plans and protests is Road Block - http://www.roadblock.org - and let's not forget also that airport expansion is perhaps something worth fighting even more: I'm thinking of runway 3 at Heathrow - http://www.notrag.org.uk - in particular.
All the best,
Andy

Andy is the author of 'Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion' (Alternative Albion, 2004), described by SchNEWS as 'by far the best bit of modern British social history I've seen', and the editor of 'The Battle of the Beanfield' (Enabler, 2005), described by Professor Ronald Hutton as 'probably the definitive work on its subject, something very rarely achieved in practice'. http://www.andyworthington.co.uk

 

[twysted]

do you think that because i appear on the video i could demand a copy which i could then upload and everybody coud have it. if not i think you can get the video for about 12 quid.