As Lifespan Community celebrates its half centenary we bring you an interview with Freer Spreckley who was one of the founders back in 1974. He and Hylda Sims were both alumni of the famous Summerhill School and originally saw Lifespan as being a kind of lifelong version of Summerhill. Freer describes the early years of that isolated intentional community based in terraced houses, located high in the Yorkshire Moors.

Summerhill School https://www.summerhillschool.co.uk

Lifespan Community Collective https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/lifespan-community-collective

Commune on the Moors: The Story of Lifespan https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/shop/commune-on-the-moors

Spaceheads: https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/