Peace Convoy
In the UK during the 1980s the Travellers' mobile homes - generally old vans, trucks and buses (including double-deckers) - moved in convoys. The movement had faced significant opposition from the British government and from mainstream media, epitomised by the authorities' attempts to prevent camps at Stonehenge, and the resultant Battle of the Beanfield in 1985 – the largest mass civil arrest in English history.
In 1986 and subsequent years police again blocked the "Peace Convoy" (as they then identified themselves) from "taking the Stones" on the Summer Solstice (June 21). This led Travellers to spend summers squatting by the hundreds on several sites adjacent to the A303 in Wiltshire.
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