The Garden House Riot, 1970: Night that violence and tragedy were on the menu

On a cold evening 40 years ago, 400 students tried to storm The Garden House Hotel in Cambridge. The hotel suffered £2,000 worth of damage and eight Cambridge graduates were sent to jail. In their first interview in more than 20 years Alice Hutton talks to two of the demonstrators, Rod Caird and Nick Emley.

 

Originally Published in The Cambridge News

(First published in The Cambridge News on February 13, 2010).

Click on the link to read the article or click on the image above.

I finally got round to uploading a few features I wrote for The Cambridge News; a year late is better than never I suppose.

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