ATV Today: 13.02.1974: Tree Squatter in Stow on the Wold

Summary

Tree squatter Martin Abram protesting against the felling of an old elm tree at Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire.

Year:

1974

Duration:

0:02:33

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Shot of large elm tree in Stow on the Wold town centre. Bob Warman talks to protestor Martin Abram who is a local property developer about why he is squatting in the tree until midnight in an attempt to save it from felling. Warman then talks to Cotswold Ranger Walter Didcott who is angry and claims to have been manhandled by police and vox pops with local people, some of whom want the tree to come down including one man who thinks that there are too many trees in this country.


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