500th day celebration for keeping Tescos off Mill Road, Cambridge

Today, 21st March 2009, a small mile­stone in com­mu­ni­ty activism was reached when the 500th day of being able keep Tescos off Mill Road was reached.

To mark this occa­sion, tables, chairs and stalls were set up in front of the old Wilco premis­es and a street par­ty took place, replete with music.

Today, 21st March 2009, a small mile­stone in com­mu­ni­ty activism was reached when the 500th day of being able keep Tescos off Mill Road was reached.

To mark this occa­sion, tables, chairs and stalls were set up in front of the old Wilco premis­es and a street par­ty took place, replete with music.

Alas I missed the music, so if any­one out there took some pic­tures of any of these per­for­mances, please feel free to post them here, but please remem­ber to resize them.

Tescos has now had two plan­ning appli­ca­tions turned down in the last year for set­ting up shop in the for­mer Wilco premis­es, which for a cou­ple of months last year was also Mill Road Social Cen­tre, before Tescos saw fit to issue an evic­tion order and have the Social Cen­tre’s world­ly goods uncer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly dumped by bailiffs in the car park behind the build­ing.

There are rumours that they may have have ditched their orig­i­nal plan to extend the build­ing and install refrig­er­a­tion (any addi­tion­al info confirming/denying this please post here), but we shall see what takes place over the com­ing months.

In the mean­time, let’s try and make it 1,000 days with­out Tescos on Mill Road!