The Wild Horses of Newbury and the Yellow-coat hordes
by 5ocietyx
‘The Wild Horses of Newbury’ is a film and poetry recitation by Mark Carroll made on a February dawn in 1997 at the building site of the Newbury Bypass and is a heart rending film documenting the yellow-coats swarming on the ancient English countryside felling a pair of ancient oak trees with manic electric scythes in a matter of minutes and leaving piles of charred remains in their wake.
Seemingly from nowhere, two wild horses appear and try to disrupt proceedings, even confronting a riot police horse.
The film and poetry by Mark Caroll is poignant and catches a glimpse of the mystical nature of the English countryside despite the dark scenes of destruction. A truly magical moment.
England, what has become of you?
Society X 
Thank you for posting this, it’s an extremely valuable film that deserves so much more recognition.
I get more emotional every time I see it, it’s become almost unbearable but the importance and message it carries is phenomenal. We are destroying England – there isn’t much left of it’s original natural state to enjoy. We’re cutting it up into finer and finer pieces. Everywhere you go you can still hear the nearest motorway or A road. Very sad indeed.
Yes, thanks chromebiatch. You do get the sense that its importance as a historical document will be seen by future generations if not so much by our own as the smirks on the faces of some of the yellow-coat army testify.
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