Origin and Execution
Roger Hutchinson's poster for the second Stonehenge Free Festival, 1975
Stonehenge Festival 1977
“A strange hippie cult calling themselves ‘Wallies’ claim God told them to camp at Stonehenge. The Wallies of Wiltshire turned up in force at the High Court today. There was Kris Wally, Alan Wally, Fritz Wally, Sir Walter Wally, Wally Egypt and a few other wandering Wallys. The sober calm of the High Court was shattered as the Wallies of Stonehenge sought justice.” - The Times, 13 August 13 1974.
Wallies seeking Justice 1974
WALLY HOPE - Watchfield Festival 1975
“Our generation is the best mass movement in history – experimenting with anything in our search for love and peace. Knowledge kicks religion life but even if it leads us to our death at least we’re all trying together Our temple is sound we fight our battles with music drums like thunder cymbals like lighting banks of electronic equipment like nuclear missiles of sound. We have guitars instead of tommy-guns.” - Phil Russell, aka Wally Hope, 1974.
Wally Hope
Stonehenge Free Festival poster, 1984
Battle of the Beanfield near Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England June 1985
"A Religious War'
Operation Solstice: 500 hippie travellers clashed with police on their way to the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in Wiltshire for an illegal festival. Police set up a roadblock seven miles from the site. The day is known as “The Battle of the Beanfield” and was the first major test of an English Heritage ban on midsummer festivals at Stonehenge.
Battle of the Beanfield : Stonehenge 1985
Levellers - Battle of the Beanfield, 1994
Stonehenge '75 Including a drawing by Mary Guyver
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