The new skateboard ramps at Clissold Park aren’t the first ones in the borough. A previous ramp was installed by squatters in Lee House squat in Rectory Road over 20 years ago.
A useful community facility – in a squat? Obviously the Council wasn’t having that.
These scans all ripped off from the excellent 80s London Squatters group on Facebook.
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