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