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The battle for Kinder Scout

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The Ramblers and the War on Drugs

The ramblers put up fliers and wrote messages in chalk on the roads to advertise the protest. The next sunday, walkers gathered in a quarry at the foot of kinder scout. Benny rothman was amazed by the turnout. There were far more people than we expected. We had a membership in the hale of lancashire of about a hundred and 50 to two members. And that therer between four and 600 ramblers had gathered. When we had the meeting here in the quarry, there was quite a big group of policemen at the back of the crowd whod followed us. Police detectives who were listening and possibly taking notes with their police escort. I as

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