The Whiteway Colony was a community founded in 1898 by Quaker journalist Samuel Veale Bracher and other followers of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's utopian socialist philosophy with a vision to create a self-sufficient society with principles of equality, pacifism and vegetarianism. Bracher purchased 41 acres of land and burned the property deeds as a symbolic rejection of private property and in 1955 a court ruling upheld that nobody owned legal title to the land, it being held in common by the colonists.
This is part of the Series: IMP01/01 Ian M Parsons Slide Collection - English, Welsh and Scottish Locations; within the Collection: IMP01 Ian M Parsons Slide Collection
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Photographer: Parsons, Ian Mesnard
Early 20th Century House
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