Villagers from Watchfield, Oxfordshire present a petition to MP Airey Neave at the House of Commons in London on July 24th, 1975 in opposition to a planned pop festival on the local airfield. – Vintage Photograph

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On July 24th, 1975, 25 villagers from Watchfield, Oxfordshire presented a petition to MP Airey Neave at the House of Commons in London in opposition to a planned pop festival on the local airfield. The petition, which had been collected in four days, contained 2,500 signatures. The villagers also presented 14 photographs taken by Paul Vincent, a 27-year-old schoolteacher and youth worker from the village, which showed the impracticability of holding the festival at the airfield as well as metal fatigue cracks in three of the hangars designated for use. Later that day, Mr Neave, along with representatives from the local councils, health authority and police, met with Home Secretary Mr Jenkins at the House of Commons to ask what he was going to do and who was going to pay for the festival.On July 24th, 1975, 25 villagers from Watchfield, Oxfordshire presented a petition to MP Airey Neave at the House of Commons in London in opposition to a planned pop festival on the local airfield. The petition, which had been collected in four days, contained 2,500 signatures. The villagers also presented 14 photographs taken by Paul Vincent, a 27-year-old schoolteacher and youth worker from the village, which showed the impracticability of holding the festival at the airfield as well as metal fatigue cracks in three of the hangars designated for use. Later that day, Mr Neave, along with representatives from the local councils, health authority and police, met with Home Secretary Mr Jenkins at the House of Commons to ask what he was going to do and who was going to pay for the festival.

Dimensions: 17.9 x 24.2 cm

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WHITEHALL DICTATES WATCHFIELD WAITS 10 WHI

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OM Thus C+C P. One 3×10 cm T 24 JUL 1975 Mr Airey Neave and the Watchfield protesters at the Houses of Parliament today. Pop petition TWENTY FIVE Watchfield villagers met the MP for Abingdon, Mr Airey Neave, at the House of Commons today in the latest move to stop the planned pop festival. They handed Mr Neave a 2,500-signature petition, which was collected in four days, and 14 photographs taken by Mr Paul Vincent, a 27-year-old schoolteacher and youth worker who lives in the village. Mr Vincent said: “The photographs show the sheer impracticability of having the pop festival on the airfield, but worst of all I have taken pictures of metal fatigue cracks in three of the hangars which have been designated for use during the festival. “My main concern is that if goes to MP the festival goes on, who is going to carry the can when something goes wrong, which it inevitably will do?” Later today Mr Neave, with the chairman of Oxfordshire County Council, the chairman of the Vale of White Horse District Council, and rep- resentatives of the area health authority and the police, will see the Home Secretary, Mr Jenkins, at Roy Commons. “We shall ask Mr Jenkins to say what he is going to do, having only given five weeks notice to the village that this pop festival was planned. We shall also want to know who is going to pay for it,” Mr Neave said. the Rates bill warning: Page 11.