Crabbe Hall

The Crabbe Hall Archive collected and curated by Rook

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Crabbe Hall: Collected Writings

Typed in 1960 from hand-written ephemeral papers: No 5.

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Crabbe Hall: Collected Writings

Typed in 1960 from hand-written ephemeral papers, no 4.

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Crabbe Hall: Collected Writings

Typed in 1960 from hand-written ephemeral papers, no 3.

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Crabbe Hall: Collected Writings

Typed in 1960 from hand-written ephemeral papers, no 2.

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Crabbe Hall: Collected Writings

Typed in 1960 from hand-written ephemeral papers, no 1.

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Crabbe Hall Archives: transcribed extract from the journal of New Age Traveller Miranda Stewart (b.1960) written during her stay at Milton Cotterell following the 'Battle of the Beanfield' near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. (8)

[Reference Image: photo by Tessa Burbridge / Stonehenge Free Festival]

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Crabbe Hall Archives: transcribed extract from the journal of New Age Traveller Miranda Stewart (b.1960) written during her stay at Milton Cotterell following the 'Battle of the Beanfield' near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. (7)

[Reference Image: 'The Plough' - etching by Wiltshire artist Robin Tanner (1904-88)]

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Crabbe Hall Archives: transcribed extract from the journal of New Age Traveller Miranda Stewart (b.1960) written during her stay at Milton Cotterell following the 'Battle of the Beanfield' near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. (6)

[Reference Image: 'June' - etching by Wiltshire artist Robin Tanner (1904-88)]

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Crabbe Hall Archives: transcribed extract from the journal of New Age Traveller Miranda Stewart (b.1960) written during her stay at Milton Cotterell following the 'Battle of the Beanfield' near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. (5)

[Reference Image: Photo by Iain McKell from his book 'The New Gypsies': Prestel]

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Crabbe Hall Archives: transcribed extract from the journal of New Age Traveller Miranda Stewart (b.1960) written during her stay at Milton Cotterell following the 'Battle of the Beanfield' near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. (4)

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Crabbe Hall Archives: transcribed extract from the journal of Miranda Stewart (b.1960) written during her stay at Milton Cotterell following the 'Battle of the Beanfield' near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. (3)

[Reference photo: from 'The New Gypsies' by Ian McKell. iainmckell.com]

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Crabbe Hall Archives: transcribed extract from the journal of Miranda Stewart (b1960) written during her stay at Milton Cotterell followingthe 'Battle of the Beanfield' near Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

[Reference photograph: New Age Travellers. Photo © Martyn Goodacre, all rights reserved]

-Rook-

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From the collected writings of ‘Nettle Ned’ (The Rt Hon Viscount Edward Richardson 1946-?); marginal figure of English psychedelia; turned on, tuned in and dropped out to live in a caravan near Crabbe Hall c1966-1969. Underwood typewriter No.5 circa 1906, typed on found paper (cover of old map: 1921 Ordnance Survey Popular Edition Sheet 128 Tiverton (Somerset)). (7)

[Reference image (iii) still photograph from 1966 television play adaptation of 'Alice in Wonderland' directed by Jonathan Miller.]

Crabbe Hall Archives

-Rook-

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From the collected writings of ‘Nettle Ned’ (The Rt Hon Viscount Edward Richardson 1946-?); marginal figure of English psychedelia; turned on, tuned in and dropped out to live in a caravan near Crabbe Hall c1966-1969. Underwood typewriter No.5 circa 1906, typed on found paper (1916 photo-postcard depicting a young couple: note on front reads 'Kindest regards Violet and Fred 1916'. Crabbe Hall was used as a hospital for wounded WW1 soldiers - did someone leave this behind?). (6)

[Reference image (iv) photograph of British psychedelic rock band 'July', formed in 1968.]

Crabbe Hall Archives

-Rook-

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From the collected writings of ‘Nettle Ned’ (The Rt Hon Viscount Edward Richardson 1946-?); marginal figure of English psychedelia; turned on, tuned in and dropped out to live in a caravan near Crabbe Hall c1966-1969. Underwood typewriter No.5 circa 1906, found paper (fragment of old map: 1921 Ordnance Survey Popular Edition Sheet 128 Tiverton (Somerset)). (5)

Text reads: 'You have run the night to find me I have searched seven years with a ring of silver. I was lost in a waste land, locked in a stone tower, buried a thousand years beneath the earth.'

[Reference image (iii) photograph of British psychedelic rock band 'July', formed in 1968.]

Crabbe Hall Archives

-Rook-

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From the collected writings of ‘Nettle Ned’ (The Rt Hon Viscount Edward Richardson 1946-?); marginal figure of English psychedelia; turned on, tuned in and dropped out to live in a caravan near Crabbe Hall c1966-1969. Underwood typewriter No.5 circa 1906, found paper (page from old poetry book). (4)

Text reads: 'You are the god in the wood. the prince in the skin of a beast. You throw off the hide and stand, my prince, my lover.'

Crabbe Hall Archives

-Rook-

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From the collected writings of ‘Nettle Ned’ (The Rt Hon Viscount Edward Richardson 1946-?); marginal figure of English psychedelia; turned on, tuned in and dropped out to live in a caravan near Crabbe Hall c1966-1969. Underwood typewriter No.5 circa 1906, found paper (page from old poetry book). (3)

Text reads: 'Let me glimpse your face and drop tallow on your shirt as you sleep. Wake and see me. / Meet me among the dark trees, my soul, my other, where the leaves move us and the wind blows. The rain drips on our bare skin, the animals over their eyes.'

Crabbe Hall Archives

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