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	Podcast:		Witness
	Episode:		The Hippydilly Squat
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:21
	Publish Date:		2017-09-13 02:50:00
	Description:		A group of hippies known as the London Street Commune occupied a sixty-room mansion in central London in September 1969. 144 Piccadilly became a flash point for the conflict between alternative culture and the mainstream – and it was later cleared by the police. Lucy Burns speaks to Richie Gardener, who was one of the squatters. Picture credit: A policeman removes a flag from the balcony of 144 Piccadilly as squatters are evicted from the building, London, 21st September 1969. (Photo by Terry Disney/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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