Sangharakshita Pilgrimage
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Flat at Highgate West Hill

London, England · 1967–1970

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51.56830°N, -0.14740°E

Key Facts

  • Sangharakshita and Terry Delamare moved here in August 1967 from Lancaster Grove.
  • He commuted nightly from here to take meditation classes at Sakura in Monmouth Street throughout 1967–70.
  • After the LSD experience on Hampstead Heath in 1970, he 'floated rather than walked up West Hill' back home.
  • In August 1970 he moved to Muswell Hill, where he formed a mini-community with Kevin Brooks and Graham Sowter.
  • The flat is described as being 'on the third floor of an old terraced house at the lower end of Highgate West Hill'.

“In August 1967 he and I moved into a bigger flat, on the third floor of an old terraced house at the lower end of Highgate West Hill.”

Moving Against the Stream

“We floated rather than walked up West Hill, floated in through the front door and up the stairs, floated into the sitting room of my second floor flat, where our friends were waiting for us.”

Moving Against the Stream

Source: Moving Against the Stream

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