When hippy squatters took over a multi-million pound Piccadilly mansion
Hundreds called the long-abandoned mansion home for a week – it was ended by police in just three minutes (Picture: Getty/Shutterstock)
It was the summer of ’69, and just like the Bryan Adams song, Richie Garnder, 17, thought the summer would last forever.
Richie was a hippy. That counter-culture of mushroom-munching, ‘peace not war’, shower-avoiding people – at least, to the tabloids.
The busker and musician spent the summer squatting at derelict buildings on Endell Street and Broad Court in central London.
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