On Sunday twenty second September 2013 Druids carried out their annual Autumn Equinox (Alban Elued) ceremony on Primrose Hill at midday and later within the day ladies from the novel fundamentalist Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain marched from Paddington Inexperienced in protest in opposition to the chemical assaults and massacres of girls and youngsters by the Assad regime in Syria. Between the 2 occasions I spent a while taking footage across the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal.
Druids Rejoice Autumn Equinox – Primrose Hill
Yearly for somewhat over 100 years the Druid Order have celebrated the Autumn Equinox on Primrose Hill, a website of historic significance within the historical past of Druidism and the re-invention of a Druidic custom. Right here on the Autumn Equinox in 1716 John Toland made a name for a gathering of Druids a 12 months and a day later on the Apple Tree Tavern in Covent Backyard, and on Midsummer’s day 1792 Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826) held the primary assembly of the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, the precursor of the trendy Eisteddfod.
Morganwg was the bardic title of Edward Williams and his work “was a major pressure behind the cultural revival that noticed the beginning of recent Wales” in response to the College of Wales Centre for Superior Welsh and Celtic Research whose web page describes him as “a profoundly difficult character: a struggling provincial poet in London, a manipulator and sufferer of the world of literary patronage, a radical, a medievalist, a forger of pasts, an opium eater and a forceful and opinionated critic.”
A lot of the Druidic traditions we now have come from solid manuscripts he produced particularly the “Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain” (“The Gorsedd of Bards of the Isles of Britain”.) It was solely within the twentieth century that the extent of his imaginative forgeries grew to become clear. However though his work got here nearly fully from his personal extraordinarily fertile creativeness it had a dramatic impact in creating a brand new view of the Welsh nation.
The Druid Order made its first recorded look on the Summer time Solstice at Stonehenge in 2021, although its founder, the outstanding George Watson MacGregor Reid, a commerce union and Labour celebration activist with an important curiosity in oriental mysticism was most likely there 3 years earlier. In 2014 he returned for the Solstice describing himself as a Excessive Priest and “the direct successor of the Chief Druids who’ve been” and wearing a really comparable method to that also adopted by The Druid Order.
I’ve photographed the Equinox ceremonies of the Druid Order, Spring at Tower Hill and Autumn on Primrose Hill on a number of events and have been impressed by the solemnity and spirituality of these collaborating. No matter its origins, it’s a motion which respects the Earth and is peace loving and free-thinking with the obvious intention of creating themselves by means of being relatively than by means of mental studying.
My account on My London Diary offers fairly an in depth description of the occasion each in footage and textual content so I gained’t repeat that right here.
Paddington Basin – Paddington
The principle line of the Grand Union Canal enters the River Thames at Brentford, from the place it was doable for items to journey alongside the river to London, however a direct canal route was clearly fascinating and solely two years after the Act of Parliament for the principle path to Brentford was handed an additional Act to permit the development of a canal becoming a member of the this to a canal basin at Paddington, then on the western fringe of London. This opened in 1801.
Unusually there aren’t any locks on the 22km of the Paddington Arm – and you’ll journey a complete of round 43 lock-free miles alongside the pound made up by it the Grand Union and Regents canal.
The world across the remaining size of the Paddington Arm from Little Venice to Paddington Basin has been the positioning of giant redevelopments previously thirty or so years. A number of older canalside buildings stay. A lot of the land and paths open to the general public within the space are on personal land.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Girls March for Syria – Paddington Inexperienced
Over a thousand girl gathered on Paddington Inexperienced for a march to the Syrian Embassy to point out solidarity with ladies and youngsters in Syria and to sentence the chemical assaults and massacres being carried out by the Assad regime.
Hizb ut-Tahrir oppose Western army intervention in Syria however name for the substitute of the present corrupt rulers in Islamic states by a Khilifah (caliphate), a state that may actually implement Islamic values and finish the corruption and oppression of the present states. They name for Muslims to stand up and do away with corruption, and particularly of “the legal regime of the butcher Bashar Al Assad” in Syria, and for “Muslim armies to mobilise and substitute the rule of the dictator with the rule of Allah.“
On the entrance of the march youngsters carried a small coffin and different youngsters and girls carried bundles representing lifeless youngsters. There have been a number of younger boys collaborating, however I noticed few males – only one small group with a banner and a heavy public tackle system – and the occasion was clearly led by the ladies, nearly all of whom have been sporting headscarves, with only a few in niqabs or burqas which coated the entire face.
At most different Hizb ut-Tahrir protests I’ve photographed there have been clearly separate teams of women and men, and I’ve typically had issues with male stewards for photographing the ladies, although not from the ladies themselves. At this occasion most appeared eager to be photographed to assist get their message throughout. I left the march which was going to the Syrian Embassy in Belgrave Sq. at Edgware Highway.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Girls March for Syria
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