Author Topic: Commemorating the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass.  (Read 828 times)

TheGUYuk

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Commemorating the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass.
« on: 20:12:28, 16/04/13 »
Commemorating the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass.

I was reading how a member of the band Chumbawamba will sing at the next festival. 

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A member of the band that notoriously doused John Prescott with water will join a male voice choir at celebrations to mark a seminal event in the battle for countryside access.
Boff Whalley, a founder member of anarcho-punk-pop band Chumbawamba will perform during a day commemorating the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass.
And Chapel-en-le-Frith Male Voice Choir will reprise its rendition of The Manchester Rambler at the event at New Mills Town Hall later this month.
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And that Hayfield have a group working towards a visitor centre.

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The event on Saturday 27 April will also see Kate Ashbrook launch the Friends of Kinder Trespass membership group, organised by the Kinder Visitor Centre Group of Hayfield, which has long-term plans for a trespass visitor centre in the village.
John Harvey, chairman of KVCG: said: “Our campaign has already been endorsed by people like Sir Chris Bonington, Lord (Roy) Hattersley and Kate Ashbrook.
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Good to see that things seem to be building upwards, all helps keep the memory a live.
 
Quote source : http://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2013/04/15/chumbawamba-star-will-join-kinder-mass-trespass-celebrations

russell61

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Re: Commemorating the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass.
« Reply #1 on: 12:33:24, 25/04/13 »
Tresspass has always been more of an issue in England than in Scotland. Its great that this is being commemorated. People risked jail and getting the sack for the right to roam

 

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