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20 results found for '"Ancient monuments"' in Keywords.
Stonehenge hippies beaten by police (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop
Police force back 3000 hippies at Stonehenge, Wiltshire who were trying to celebrate the summer solstice. Includes vox pop with terrified participants and police loudhailer heard. Julie Benson reports from...
Stonehenge hippies forced out by riot police (1988)
- Genre
- News report
Police with riot gear force 3000 hippies away from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in Wiltshire during a dawn siege where they were trying to celebrate summer solstice. They have claimed police brutality....
Protesters strive to save Rose Theatre (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Rosy Kempston reports on the fight to get ancient monument status for the remains of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre in Southwark, London and current plans to conserve its remains whilst developing the site....
Rose Theatre preservation (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
From Westminster, Paul Rowley reports on the proposals to preserve the remains of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre in Southwark, London which is being denied ancient monument status. Includes Commons speeches...
Rose Theatre preservation (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Developers have moved into the site of the Rose Theatre in Southwark, London today and are covering the remains of the Elizabethan theatre with a layer of sand and concrete to protect it whilst an office...
Summer Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge - police operation (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Julie Osborne reports on police operations in readiness for the Summer Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge in South Wiltshire. Many so-called hippies have set up camp on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border, but...
Summer solstice activities banned at Stonehenge (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Report on the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge where a nude protest may take place following the banning of any activity near the protected site after violent clashes in previous years. Archive material from...
Druidism and Stonehenge (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Clive Anderson and Richard Dallyn interview Peter Berresford Ellis?, a Druid, about the significance of Stonehenge to Druidism and why they should be allowed onto the protected site for the Summer Solstice....
Proposals to close Stonehenge road (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (from English Heritage?) on the Government’s proposals to dual the A303, to place the road in a two-kilometre tunnel where it passes Stonehenge, and to close the A344. Female...
New Age Travellers fail to breach Operation Solstice (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Robin Hague reports on a major police operation, codenamed Operation Solstice, in Wiltshire, enforcing a four-mile exclusion zone around Stonehenge, to prevent New Age Travellers from celebrating the Summer...