Castle Mill boatyard eviction

Castle Mill boatyard in Jericho, Oxford, which inspired the Gyptian boat people in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass which had been threatened by plans to redevelop the site into luxury flats.
  
  


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February 15 2008: Castle Mill in the Jericho district of Oxford is the last public boatyard on the Oxford canal and was home to 120 families. Photograph: Jonathan Player /Rex Features
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May 31 2006: Opponents barricaded themselves into the boatyard, but were eventually evicted by British Waterways, which owned the site. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex Features
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May 31 2006: Policemen gather in the boatyard during the eviction. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex Features
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May 31 2006: Protester Martin Wright tries to stop a boat being lifted. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex Features
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May 31 2006: A crane lifts one of the canal boats out of the water. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex Features
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May 31 2006: Protester Martin Wright stopped by police. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex Features
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May 31 2006: Bailiffs at the boatyard move in to evict boaters. Photograph: Press Association
 

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