We began our last tour with a show in Whitchurch, a small town just east of Andover. We were so excited that it was near Overton and planning our ‘moving the Overton window’ photo shoot than we didn’t find out about some pretty unique Whitchurch history until after the gig!

In 1889 a march there by the Salvation Army (protesting about their treatment as a non-conformist branch of protestant Christianity) was subject to eighty people being arrested. This led the legal right to protest being established in UK case law after the High Court of Justice found in favour of the protesters.

During the 1880s the Salvation Army’s marches were often violently opposed by others, sometimes dubbed The Skeleton Army. Objections ranged from Anglican Christians disapproving of another non-conformist Protestant sect or people who were angered by their anti-gambling and anti-alcohol stance.