{"id":1743,"date":"2012-03-19T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2012-03-19T22:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:00:32","slug":"one-eye-on-the-road-website-re-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1743","title":{"rendered":"One Eye on the Road: Website re-launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear everyone: at last: I would like to announce that I’ve finished [most of] on my shiny new “ONE EYE ON THE ROAD<\/a>” site. This for the older ones here was known as the greennet site, but it’s been down for years. Months of work …. and it’s back. Check it out at: http:\/\/digitaljournalist.eu\/OnTheRoad<\/a><\/p>\n

This sub-site, contains the text and pictures from the period around the early 1970’s to the late 1990\u2032s. The years in which my tribe developed the gatherings around the country that became the Free Festival Circuit. \u2019New Age Travellers\u2019, assorted hippies, punks, urbanites , festival goers and general people then found themselves labelled as the \u2018Peace Convoy\u2019. Quite central to this life was the gathering for the summer solstice at Stonehenge. [some say Glastonbury as well]. The authorities watching some of these developments with some alarm, became increasingly belligerent and attacked these gathering with some violence. One of the more famous examples was the attack on the Peace Convoy by 1600 policemen from 5 police forces on the Wiltshire \/ Hampshire border. It became known as the Battle of the Beanfield and it will never \u2026.. I say never be forgot by many of us. The following few years got increasingly unpleasent with the force and application of increasingly oppressive law \u2026 leading to the Public Order Act 1986.<\/p>\n

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All seemed lost and many were dispersed and many other going abroad, to Europe and beyond. But I think the \u2018scene\u2019 got another boost when a new musical style based on repetitive beats became popular. The free party scene didn\u2019t just arrive, it was adapted and build on the free festival and traveller scene of the years before. Thousands again were able to get together culminating in events like Lechlade and Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire. The Tory party of the time then thought that yet more laws were required and the CJA, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 was then enacted. It seemed as though only the mega-commercial pop concerts were what\u2019s left for our attendance, if you could afford it that is!<\/p>\n

Yet again, people retained a spirit for action, and the wish to have concern for the planet, a new environmentalism, joined with some of the more hedonistic pursuits and events like the Reclaim the Streets started to appear in many cities across the country.<\/p>\n

Events that concern me have progressed yet further, but this is about were this \u2018historical\u2019 piece of work will finish. I will not add to it here. Although I have reformatted these pages and \u2018polished\u2019 it a bit, all I\u2019m trying to do is re-display something that many of the older ones amongst us, tell me that they\u2019ve missed since it hadn\u2019t been there.<\/p>\n

All the above is a brief summery of what\u2019s its all about. Please proceed through the site, read some of the history and thoughts from those times \u2026.. oh and see a shed load of pictures that will make some a bit nostalgic for some of the finest time they had in their lives.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/digitaljournalist.eu\/OnTheRoad<\/a><\/p>\n

Booom Shanka!!!! \u2026\u2026.. ali ali ali !!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear everyone: at last: I would like to announce that I’ve finished [most of] on my shiny new “ONE EYE ON THE ROAD” site. This for the older ones here was known as the greennet site, but it’s been down … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}