“BACK TO NATURE”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17406, 3 November 1930, Page 12

“BACK TO NATURE”

COLONY DRIVEN OUT MRS. GRUNDY ON WARPATH LONDON,' Sept-. 20. Outraged Mrs. Grundy, banished from so many British seaside resorts this season, has returned in fury and broken up London’s unique “back to nature” sun-bathing colony. • For weeks groups of people of both sexes have been camped by the edge oi a lake at Hendon, North London, clad in a minimum of clothing. Local residents protested, but the sun-bathers refused to leave, claiming that the camping ground was private property. Mobs gathered from time to time and hooted the back-to-nature clan, but it was not until the local urban council discovered that it had certain rights over the sunbathing area that Mrs. Grundy got really busy.

She persuaded the chairman and councillors that there was something rotten in the state of Hendon. So, equipped with indignation and an escort of police, the urban council despatched a solemn ultimatum to “go and go quickly,” inducing the members of the cult, who are peaceable folk, to adjourn to adjoining land which is owned by a canal company. No sooner had they arrived here, however, than ofticials of the canal company appeared and ordered police to eject them. Another move and another ejection followed, and then both men and women, still in scanty clothing, went home.

However, this bathing party revue, which has interested all London for weeks, will now have an epilogue in the law courts.