{"id":37353,"date":"2025-06-25T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37353"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:07:54","slug":"tashs-police-negotiations-longstock-free-festival-summer-solstice-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37353","title":{"rendered":"Tash&#8217;s police negotiations, Longstock Free Festival, Summer Solstice 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tash&#039;s police negotiations, Longstock Free Festival, Summer Solstice 1991\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JP10qV6KzYw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tash&#8217;s police negotiations, Longstock Free Festival, Summer Solstice 1991 A masterclass in reasonableness \ud83d\ude42 Working with charities Festival Welfare Services FWS &amp; Travellers Aid Trust TAT &#8230;. I was frequently asked to deal with police negotiations and witnessing. It was not often caught on film &#8230; but this one was. The police wanted to close the road to the site at Longstock because of the volume of traffic, road safety etc and people where rightly cross at the continued harassment &#8230;.. I simply suggested a one-way system. Then to ask folks if this was acceptable. I conceal my crossness really well innit. xx Credit : Gareth Morris, Neil Goodwin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/police\">#police<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/longstock\">#longstock<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/free\">#free<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/festival\">#festival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tash&#8217;s police negotiations, Longstock Free Festival, Summer Solstice 1991 A masterclass in reasonableness \ud83d\ude42 Working with charities Festival Welfare Services FWS &amp; Travellers Aid Trust TAT &#8230;. I was frequently asked to deal with police negotiations and witnessing. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37353","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\/37353","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=37353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37354,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37353\/revisions\/37354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}