Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Through the keyhole of London's most upmarket squats | Life & Style

Through the keyhole of London's most upmarket squats | Life & Style

On a recent Thursday, a group calling itself the Really Free School was offering life drawing classes in a boarded-up pub behind the National Portrait Gallery. The collective of young radicals - or the 'middle class squat squad' as one paper dubbed it, noting its taste for trendy tweeds - made a name for itself in February by occupying a £6 million Grade I-listed Fitzrovia mansion owned by Guy Ritchie.

After the film director managed to evict the collective with an interim possession order (the members marched out wearing Vinnie Jones masks), it took up residence in a dormant pub near Oxford Street before moving on to the semi-derelict Hand & Racquet pub on Whitcomb Street.

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