Barney Dree: Drifting in England
Ed Pope: two songs
present Sarah, Lucy, Sue Pennington, Pip Payne and her sister Kate

present from 9pm Ed Pope (story?), (Guy Brett?) Jim Davies and Pip Payne, Chris, Zak & Lou

When the first Catweazle was in Jude the Obscure i'm not sure, but this was something that Matt barranged with Noel, the landlord, an amazing Irishman with a passion for culture. He took over the decrepit Prince of Wales, Oxford's last real spit and sawdust pub, did it up and named it after Thomas Hardy's novel, and he later started Far Fron the Madding Crowd in Friars Entry too. Had he lived longer we might have had a pint in Tess of the D@Urbevilles or the Mayor of Casterbridge. Anyway Noel enforced a total hush during acts, and the first note I have of performing there was on January 10th 1996, when i wore my green wellies and did a sketch of a posh country type complaining about the protestors on the Newbury by-pass.

Ed Pope: (sketch) Newbury in green wellies
Jim Davies: poem
Terry Walpole
Benji Ming
present Pip Payne who noted "no Black Poet", Doug & Anja, Lucy, Alex, Andrew

In the preparations for the Newbury by pass protest, a phone tree was set up in Oxford, which proved not so useful at Newbury, but worked well when it was first used on the night Ogoni activist Ken Saro Wiwa was executed in Nigeria. It came over the 6pm news, and by 8pm 80 people were picketing the Mobil garage (now Waitrose) in Headington and cars were effectively turned away

As a protest against the stopping by Magdalen College (13 years earlier by a ditch and hedge) of a popular access route at the north end of Angel & Greyhound Meadow, a camp during the first weekend of the University year was set up and advertised to freshers (one or two came), in a field known as Bat Willow where trees suitable for cricket bats grew. One of the instigators was determined to make a concrete bridge across a stream which led to preparations being discovered by the college gardener, who luckily supported the action, and then during the night-time bridge laying, the police were called but were persuaded it was a civil matter. The bridge was laid (though later removed by the college) and the party took place again for seven years running. Sadly it ran out of steam after 2001, not reaching the 12 year mark required to become a custom

A day of varied actions which culminated in the occupation of Magdalen Street East (the road behind the church, now used by buses but then only by occasional rat running cars). Props included a roll-out zebra crossing and a belisha beacon, and football was played with a ball with John Major mask attached. Major, then PM, had proposed making street football illegal. There were one or two arrests, but it was a very hot day and all went off to swim in Wolvercote gravel pit. In the evening the south end of Princes Street by the East Oxford Community Centre was occupied as a party space. One angry local resident drove through without hurting anybody

this happened not on 14 june 1995 but I don't know when, sometime in 1994 to 1996?
Ed Pope: (story) history of Walton Well (ending "may you never have the misfortune to be rich and famous, unless it be rich in friends and famous in love"
Clare Senior: (story of her boat sinking)
present, maybe performed: Alex Kramer

Tom: Ballad of Johnny Rotten
present, maybe performed: Vicky, Sally, Lawrence, Warren Scott-Morrow, Anni Loveridge, Mike Dacre, Ed Pope

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Following the formation of The Land Is Ours, a trespass camp was made on the land of the Earl of Macclesfield near the M40 Chiltern cutting. The next day some of the trespassers went to visit the Earl in his castle