Links to web resources, books and free downloads about this 1970s London squatter community and development saga.

Please send suggestions for additions to info@nickwates.co.uk

Film

Tolmers, beginning or end? Philip Thompson, 1975
30 minute film on DVD available from the NWA shop.

Two excerpts on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LjAmpFGVCI
and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=llj4ahtCNVI&feature=related

Websites

Square Myspace page
www.myspace.com/tolmers-square
email: tolmers-square@myspace.com

Exhibitions

Goodbye London; Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies
NGBK, Berlin, Germany 26 June - 15 August 2010
http://ngbk.de/site/

Books

The Battle for Tolmers Square,
Nick Wates, RKP, 1976
Digital and paper copies available from the shop.

Goodbye to London, Radical Art and Politics in the 70's,
Astrid Proll ed, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2010.
Includes essay on Tolmers by Sacha Craddock.
www.hatjecantz.de/

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness,
Oren Harman, W.W.Norton & Company Inc., 2010
The last chapter tells the story of Tolmers during the time George was there.
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?ID=15582
Author’s precis at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-s_5zkGL0

Tolmers in colour: Memories of a London squatter community
Nick Wates with Mae Dewsbery & Caroline Lwin,
Bay Leaf Books, 2010
Digital and paper copies available from the shop shortly.
Please email to be sent details.

 

Where are they now

Links to people and organisations who were once there

Alara Wholefoods
www.alara.co.uk/

Hodge Jones and Allen
www.hja.net/

Philip Clayton-Thompson
contact@blackstoneedge.com
www.blackstoneedge.com

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