London Free School
The London Free School (LFS) was founded on 8 March 1966, principally by John "Hoppy" Hopkins and Rhaune Laslett.
Description
The London Free School was a community action adult education project inspired by American free universities (and the Victorian Jewish Free School in
To varying degrees of involvement, the hippy contingent numbered John Hopkins,
According to Jeff Nuttall, "Ultimately the Free School did nothing but put out a local underground newsletter and organise the 2 Notting Hill Gate Festivals, which were, admittedly, models of exactly how the arts should operate – festive, friendly, audacious, a little mad and all taking place on demolition sites, in the streets, and in a magnificently institutional church hall."[3] Despite this opinion, the formation of the "Notting Hill Neighbourhood Service" (one of the first centres to offer drug and legal advice in London), the Notting Hill Carnival, the International Times and the UFO Club all emerged from the brief life of the LFS.
Also significant was the early development of
References
- ^ Mike Phillips, Guardian obituary - Courtney Tulloch, 13 December 2006.
- ^ An historical and psychogeographical report on Notting Hill Archived 21 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine compiled by Tom Vague for HISTORYtalk.
- ISBN 978-1-62517-202-0.
- ^ Glenn Povey, Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd, 2007.
External links
- Courtney Tulloch article in IT on the LFS
- "The Formation of the LFS and UFO Club - John 'Hoppy' Hopkins talks to Youth about the beginnings of the Free School, UFO club, Pink Floyd and the Carnival". International Times.
- Dave Tomlin, "A Tale of 'Hoppy' - It is the summer of 1966 and the location is The London Free School in Notting Hill Gate", Tales from the Embassy. International Times.
