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https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/05/30/battle-of-the-beanfield/
Nick Davies - remembers the events of the Beanfield youtu.be/G8U0QxH7iNc?...
01.06.2025 13:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rushes from ITN Kim Sabido youtu.be/k8SM4e-W0lc?...
01.06.2025 12:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The event became known as the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’, although it was more like a massacre: the Thatcher government’s final solution to the traveller ‘issue’. Like the miners, the travellers were portrayed as an ‘enemy within’, anathema to everything Thatcherism stood for.
01.06.2025 08:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Its not quite a HAPPY ANNIVERSARY !! - Is it when you are remembering the largest mass arrest in peacetime history. It was also no 'Battle' more a ambush by the British State and Wiltshire Police! read more here : www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Its not quite a HAPPY ANNIVERSARY !! - Is it when you are remembering the largest mass arrest in peacetime history. It was also no 'Battle' a ambush by the British State and Wiltshire Police! read more here : www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
01.06.2025 08:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTOS OF THE DAYS - 1985 - IF YOUR NOT CAREFUL THE COPPERS ARE GONNA BE AFTER YA! #OPSOL40 - Pix credit Alan Lodge
31.05.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTOS OF THE DAYS - Life on the road - Nobel Nomadic Traditions, Old and New - People have always moved! Don't let anyone tell you you stay still !! #OpSol40 - Photo Credit -Alan Lodge
30.05.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTOS OF THE DAYS - WE ARE ON THE ROAD!!! - THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN!!!!! STONEHENGE PEOPLES FREE FESTIVAL HERE WE COME!!!!! - Photo credit Alan Lodge - #OpSol40
28.05.2025 07:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - File photo from Alan Lodge one of the plaintiffs in the Beanfield court case. Man with horse Cannock chase July 1985 after the mass trashing. - In the 1991 court case the Jury found the police acted unlawfully on numerous accounts. #OpSol40
12.02.2025 08:51 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTOS OF THE DAYS - THE Ancient mysteries of old Albion ! Pix credit Alan Lodge - The Free Festival - the reenactment of the ancient fayre. Why were people drawn to the areas around Glastonbury and Stonehenge? Hats off to M. Eavis for his support over the years. TAKE TO THE ROAD !!! #OpSol40
22.05.2025 06:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTOS OF THE DAYS - SITE LIFE - Pix credit Alan Lodge - 1980's 'Escape the rat race - Access to the countryside - A new way of living - Repurposing old vehicles into homes'. #OpSol40
21.05.2025 19:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WE NOW HAVE STICKERS - Look out for us at Balter festival this weekend in Chepstow. Sorry for the lack of posts over the last weeks. It is now the silly season and tings are hotting up! #OpSol40
21.05.2025 08:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEVER FORGET - NEVER FORGIVE - #OPSOL40 - THE LARGEST MASS ARREST IN PEACETIME WAS ORCHESTRATED BY THE THEN TORY GOVERNMENT TO STOP A FREE FESTIVAL.
05.05.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - CONVOY - Happy Beltane everyone!!! Countdown to Summer Solstice!!! picture credit - Alan Lodge #OpSol40
04.05.2025 12:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - Picture credit Alan Lodge - Since Tash has had multiple cyber attacks accross multiple platforms many originating in the UK over recent months. don't have all the who what where information for his photo's. Suffice to say we're a creative bunch!! We win with a grin !!! #OpSol40
28.04.2025 07:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Easter ! - Crowned by Thorns - Stonehenge pictured behind barbed wire signifying the exclusion from a pagan past by the fundamentalist capitalist state! - Pic credit - Alan Lodge - #OpSol40
21.04.2025 08:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - EASTER EGG HUNT !!! - NAH just kidding!!! its some more crusty travellers - pix courtesy of Alan Lodge aka Tash - one of the original plaintiffs in the case that saw Wiltshire police found to of acted unlawfully in the 1985 mass trashing of new travellers. #OPSOL40
18.04.2025 07:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - Convoy on the A303 1980's - Photo Credit Alan Lodge #OPSOL40
16.04.2025 07:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - Sign reading TASH'S (Famous) FESTIVAL SLIDES - #OPSOL40 - Tash known as Alan Lodge was one of the plaintiffs in the case that THEY WON against Wiltshire Police regarding the unlawful arrest and deliberate destruction of those in the convoy to Stonehenge Free Festival 1985.
15.04.2025 06:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0PHOTO OF THE DAY - Writing on the side of a trailer 1980's pic credit Alan Lodge - #OPSOL40 - So it seems that our Tash has been the victim of a cyber attack targeting multiple accounts. Coincidence its the 40th Anniversary this year????? Keep Sharing !! We will not be silenced!!!
13.04.2025 17:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
APPEAL - A chance meeting with Tash the guy that took all these photos whilst on the dance floor at DiY 's Sponge 1992 changed the course of my life. Now suddenly we are at the 40th anniversary - This year like most years I'm doing all I can but I can't do everything I have planned alone. DM me.
05.04.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - The iconic Atkinson truck cab. Pictured here with artwork 1985 - Picture credit Alan Lodge #OpSol40
02.04.2025 19:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - picture credit Alan Lodge # OpSOL40 - ok maybe there might of been the recreational use of psychoactive substances!!!! Oft used as a stick to beat the adherents of underground culture. Now widely accepted as a part of modern self healing and learning.
29.03.2025 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - That moment when you ask yourself - would gun metal grey of been a more contemporary look . Nah !!!! We used to be loud and proud! Fxxk conformity bring the colour back!!!! - #OpSol40 - Picture Credit - Alan Lodge 1980's
26.03.2025 07:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - Living a free nomadic life is the oldest form of social cohesion. - picture credit - Alan Lodge 1984 #OpSol40
23.03.2025 18:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - Plaxton Panorama Coach body with sign reading - "You have been misinformed (as usual) STONEHENGE 1985 FREE FESTIVAL SHALL HAPPEN " - picture credit Alan Lodge 1985 - #OpSol40
21.03.2025 10:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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PHOTO OF THE DAY - The painted wagon - Imagine a world where this was possible - we have lost so much and hardly anyone has noticed. #OpSol40 - Photo credit Alan Lodge 1980's
PHOTO OF THE DAY - The classic Bedford RL - photo credit Alan Lodge - #OpSol40 - Did you have one? Was the design really copied from a jelly mould?
08.03.2025 11:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PHOTO OF THE DAY - The Thames Yeoman and Bedford Super Vega shaped luxury coach repurposed into a home is possibly one of the finest examples of new traveller living. Just sublime! pix credit Alan Lodge #OpSol40
03.03.2025 08:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do you prefer front-mount or mid-mount? Only the initiated will understand. ;)
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