PASSPORT TO FRESTONIA

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PASSPORT TO FRESTONIA: PHOTO DOCUMENTATION OF THE ‘FREE STATE’ OF FRESTONIA

Since the early 70s, Freston Road, a run down street with several condemned and empty buildings, had become the one of the city’s epicenters of the squatters movement. Many of the buildings housed artists who needed a place to work. In October of 1977, the Greater London Council made plans to raze the derelict buildings of Freston Road but met with rioting from the hippies and the punks who lived there.

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