London has a long and varied history with squatters. Whether you support or despise them, these pictures give an insight into one of the city’s most controversial subcultures. From London24…
Squatters outside an empty building they took over in Broad Court, near Bow Street, Holburn (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
circa 1975: A squatter looking out of the balcony window into Regents Park, in a house in Cornwall Gardens (Photo by Frank Tewkesbury/Evening Standard/Getty Images)
15th November 1979: Squatters protesting at Bloomsbury Square (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
A squatter reacts to reporters from the roof of one of two Mayfair mansions, estimated to have a combined value of £23 million, in Park Lane on January 28, 2009 (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
December 24, 2014: A police officer looks on from a doorway as squatters from a group calling themselves ‘Love Activists’ sit on the balcony of a previously unoccupied building in Trafalgar Square (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Squatters occupy a house in Oakfield Road, Ilford, 1969. (Photo by Terry Disney/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Squatters remain defiant at 144 Piccadilly shortly before being evicted by the police,1969. (Photo by Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A local woman argues with one of the squatters occupying a building on Endell Street, Holburn, 1969 (Photo by William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A squatter from 144 Piccadilly is evicted by police, London, 21st September 1969. (Photo by P. Floyd/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A group of squatters entertain themselves in a run-down house in Broad Street (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
15th March 1977: A meeting being held by squatters at the squatters action council headquarters in London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
13th June 1947: A group of squatters in Ealing (Photo by George Stroud/Express/Getty Images)
Source – London24
