MORE than 4,000 Herefordshire people left the county in March 1998 to join what was called Britain's biggest political demonstration for a decade.
Farmers joining in students, pub landlords, riders and countryside businesses, all taking part in the protests to 'save the rural' way.
Remind you of any recent times?
The message, carried by 40 coaches from Herefordshire and shouted out in London's Hyde Park was that the needs of the countryside should not be ignored by parliament.
At the time the Countryside Alliance said they were "delighted" with the turn out.
In the crowd at the time, local photographer John Adams of Camp Farm Dinedor who took many of the pictures here.
As reported in the Hereford Times, in their paper from March 5, 1998, The Talbot Inn in Bromyard closed its door for the day so that staff and regulars boarded a coach to join the protest.
"My sister and I were born and bred in the country and we feel very strongly that people should be able to earn a living from rural life," said landlady Annie Clift at the time. " We stopped at one point and looked back down Piccadilly where there was a sea of faces."
Another group who travelled from Hereford to London, students from the agricultural college at Holme Lacy.
Beverley Shock, who was a 16 year old equine student at the time told the newspaper: " I went with the Radnor and West Hunt and we took three coaches down. It was a really good day with a good atmosphere, there were so many people just joining in together to get their message across."
