# 81 Bonnington Square

## Andy, Derek, Iggy, Chumbawamba members

![Andy, Derek, Iggy, Chumbawamba members. 81 Bonnington Square](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125210575-8a695f80-e298-11eb-9f89-2730aefca69d.png)

![Lived in a wooden house in a yard. I borrowed Roland Barthes books from him.](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125210952-bc7bc100-e29a-11eb-8dc4-34d3de8501e5.png)

## Andy

![Andy](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125211037-622f3000-e29b-11eb-8986-824d780fd0e0.png)

## Hamid

![1985-Hamid's Passport Photo-Bonnington-Square](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212223-c35b0180-e2a3-11eb-9528-22a5b37aa97d.jpg)

![1984-Hamid-Derek-and-Lucys-baby-at-Bonnington-Square](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212246-e4235700-e2a3-11eb-80ac-a278ddee51ab.jpg)

## Tony who ran the corner shop

![Tony who ran the corner shop and sold single cigarettes.](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125211163-6c056300-e29c-11eb-8879-9ea3b317587b.png)

## Bonnington-Sq-Cat

![1984-Bonnington-Sq-Cat](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212150-5fd0d400-e2a3-11eb-9496-1b4a88c92310.jpg)

## Bonnington Square Sketchbooks

![1986 Sketchbook](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125366158-74799e80-e36d-11eb-9bfc-7979cecf1986.jpg)

![1987-Bonnington-Square-Sketchbooks](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212332-94915b00-e2a4-11eb-92b2-00f94714ecf6.jpg)

## Vauxhall Tavern

![1987-03-Vauxhall-Tavern-taken-by-Joyce](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212287-3d8b8600-e2a4-11eb-9ae6-7902cd32d334.jpg)

## Bonnington-Square-House-Cake

![1984-Bonnington-Square-House-Cake](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212375-eafe9980-e2a4-11eb-9942-1b4910cffa02.jpg)

## Bonnington-Square-Roof-Garden

![1984-Bonnington-Square-Roof-Garden](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212399-0ec1df80-e2a5-11eb-91c1-9e9663c0442b.jpg)

## Bonnington-Square-Squat

![1984-Bonnington-Square-Squat](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25156451/125212415-2ac58100-e2a5-11eb-82c9-fe4961225a1c.jpg)

## References

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Bonnington Square is right in the heart of London, just two minutes walk from the river and just ten minutes from the Houses of Parliament. In the early eighties the one hundred houses of the Square were all squatted, forming a bohemian community from all around the world.The squat had two community gardens, a cafe, a wholefood shop, a nightclub, a newsletter and even a milkbar. Although it is no longer squatted, there are still many low rent housing cooperatives, and the cafe and the gardens are still collectively run, and the Square is now a model of a modern sustainable urban community.