Roseberry Avenue Autonomy Centre

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The Autonomy Centre was a loosely organised squatters collective that opened in 1980 on Roseberry Avenue in Northeast London. The centre was closed in 1984 when the vacant office building it occupied was redeveloped.

The centre had a completely open-door policy with regard to who lived there with literally anyone being able to walk in off the street and live there for free. The full-time squatters' rooms adjoined a large communal room where visitors came and went and parties took place. On the ground floor there were free bookshops and, for some time, a vegan cafe which supplied free food for residents, visitors and local homeless people.