Horseman’s Sunday, Wallenberg & Automobile-Free Festivals: Sunday nineteenth September 2004 was a slightly unusual day for me with some very assorted occasions throughout London.
Horseman’s Sunday
Horseman’s Sunday is seemingly celebrated at a number of locations in Surrey together with Tattenham Nook at Epsom in addition to in central London on the Church of St John’s, Hyde Park Crescent,the place the The Hyde Park Pony Membership met for the event.
Regardless of being ‘Horseman’s Sunday’ there have been comparatively few males collaborating, primarily youngsters and some ladies together with the befrocked celebrants. As I famous on My London Diary, “luckily the ceremony was Anglican, so everybody left the singing to the choir, avoiding scaring the horses.”
This was a curious instance of the completely different world inhabited by the wealthy and priveleged in London. I’ve not felt moved to return to {photograph} the occasion since.
Raoul Wallenberg Memorial
Simply across the the nook, a small group was remembering one of many heroes of the Second World Warfare, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved maybe 100 thousand jews from the Nazi holocaust in Budapest, himself dying in a Russian jail.
There are monuments to him all over the world together with this one exterior the West London Synagogue and near the Swedish Embassy.
Hackney Mare De Gras Cancelled
I travelled out to Dalston, the place I discovered a discover that the Hackney Mare De Gras Procession had been postponed due to a homicide in Mare St.
Shoreditch Automobile Free Pageant
I walked down Kingsland Highway to Shoreditch the place a pageant and car-free day was getting underway, with the London Faculty Of Samba dancing via the streets and different occasions together with the Secretsundaze Sound System.
On the way in which I took just a few photos together with a number of the graffiti which by 2004 gave the impression to be protecting many of the partitions in Shoreditch.
On Curtain Highway folks have been making an attempt out varied completely different designs of bicycles, significantly recumbents. Although these could also be snug and environment friendly I’ve by no means been interested in driving on the stage of auto exhausts and really feel the low driving place provides a really restricted view in comparison with a traditional bike, harmful in metropolis site visitors. Maybe if I lived in a distant space with empty roads I’d attempt one.
A part of the road was a carpeted space with benches the place you might sit and revel in tea from an anarchist tea bar with a revolutionary tea urn.
The Shoreditch Golf Membership was arrange for a chess competitors, although I didn’t see anybody truly taking part in chess, and there have been varied theatrical performances on the road – and naturally extra graffiti to {photograph}. I spent a while taking photos there earlier than tearing myself away to catch the tube from Liverpool St to Leytonstone.
Many extra photos on My London Diary.
Leytonstone Automobile-Free Pageant
“Leytonstone was additionally having fun with a car-free day, and one of many highlights there was the Rinky Dink cycle-powered sound system, bringing again reminiscences of April’s march to Aldermaston, the place this accompanied us on the previous few miles.“
There was extra music too, in addition to varied a childrens’ arts venture and leisure, and a slightly unrelated political ingredient from protesters in opposition to the Chinese language persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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