Revisited the Beanfield last week. TV company wanted to do an interview about it all, the terrors of the afternoon and the implications for us all since.
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Before meeting them, I insisted that they watched our own explanation of events in the film:
Operation Solstice – The Battle of the Beanfield (Director’s Cut extended version)
I have to say it brings up mixed emotions, returning there and looking on the fields 40 years later. Trees and hedges grown, the A303 completely re-routed, a shiny new solar farm in the middle distance. When we finished, I grubbed around the hedgerow and could still find broken glass, bits of rusty metal and rubber. I guess in a couple of hundred years someone might do a thorough ‘archaeological dig’ like at Bosworth Field on Naseby 🙁
To my surprise, I also met the current landowner. The land had been in his family and I think he was about 10yr then and still remembers it all. When introduced, he said, ‘oh were you a policemen?’ … I said ‘no I was one of the others’.
Dropped in to see Dave Stooke while I was in the area …. more of this later. xx
‘Battle of the Beanfield’ Field revisited, July 1985
