Allercombe

Stop Press: Friday 27 December 1996:

ALLERCOMBE IS EVICTED

Bailiffs arrive as the site sleeps. All the trees are cut down. Two arrests are made, one for aggravated trespass, one for previous warrants.

As suspected, the Sheffield climbers who helped in the Newbury evictions are down here, again helping with the evictions.

And what was destroyed on 27 December 1996 ........

"Misty Glades", the Allercombe site of the A30 protest, is a pocket-sized marshy ash copse in a beautiful quiet little valley at the end of Exeter airport's main runway (it certainly seems like it).  We have about 30 wired-up trees, a dozen treehouses, a 25' tripod, the beginnings of a 30' tree-top pine obelisque, a rapidly developing tunnel and more mud than you could eat.  The site cuisine is much sought after, especially the famous Death-Cap Breakfast (often washed down with a refreshing hospital drip).  Jumping out of trees has often been practiced by various bored residents to bring added excitement to this remote rural backwater, and has often resulted in a thrilling free ride in the police helicopter to hospital (don't try this at home kids).

The camp at Allercombe


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