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tjj Jun 9, 2010 08:05:12
Replying to megadread

I just picked the summer edition of Walk, the Ramblers magazine and came across an article by Roy Hattersley headed "The land belongs to us". I can't find it online and don't have time to reproduce it. Worth a read though, to talks about hiking as linked to the early days of Socialism "Hiking seemed to be an essential adjunct of our high-minded, low-income socialism. Health and ideology went hand in hand."

He mentions the fight for the hiking public to have legal access to Kinder Scout and the celebration two years ago of the 75 year anniversary of the Trespass and March demonstration of 1932.

(This year is the Ramblers Association own 75th birthday).

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jun 9, 2010 08:14:43
Replying to tjj

To quote from Ewan Maccoll's "Manchester Rambler":

He called me a louse and said "Think of the grouse".
Well I thought, but I still couldn't see
Why old Kinder Scout and the moors round about
Couldn't take both the poor grouse and me.
He said "All this land is my master's".
At that I stood shaking my head,
No man has the right to own mountains
Any more than the deep ocean bed

(One of Gladman's recent fieldnotes reminded me of the bit about grouse).

Full lyric here:

http://kindertrespass.com/index.asp?ID=27