Brent St Patrick’s Day Parade – Willesden Inexperienced
In 2007 St Patrick’s Day, seventeenth March, fell on a Saturday and the parade in Willesden Inexperienced held on the day itself was nicely attended. I discovered it relatively extra fascinating than the large London celebration with a march from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Sq. the next day, although I met among the similar peopleand teams once more there.
It had been a busy day for me, beginning with a protest about issues for younger docs within the NHS whose managers had managed to make a whole mess of their workforce planning with 1000’s of junior docs prone to discover themselves with no place to proceed their careers within the coming August, and there being no guide posts for 1000’s of registrars in 2010-11. Among the many audio system was the then Chief of the Opposition, David Cameron who I discovered arduous to {photograph}. Extra on this on My London Diary, with footage beginning right here.
Subsequent up was a protest 4 years after the invasion of Iraq, the place 655,000 had by then died. My remark in 2007: “It’s at all times simple to be proper in hindsight, however the majority of the British folks have been proper on the time of the invasion, and the federal government held its telescope firmly to its blind eye of mis-interpreted, defective and partly invented intelligence. sadly each Britain and much more Iraq will endure for Blair’s shameful mistake for a few years to return.” And they’re nonetheless struggling. It was a small protest in Trafalgar Sq., primarily by Iraqis and there are just some footage right here.
Additionally in Trafalgar Sq., near Canada Home was a protest towards the annual slaughter of seal cubs in Canada, clubbed to loss of life in a approach that “is definitely inhumane and a public relations catastrophe, with blood staining the ice and clubbed animals at occasions being skinned whereas nonetheless aware.”
However then I took the underground to Willesden Inexperienced, the place “a a lot happier occasion was going down … the borough of Brent was celebrating St Patrick’s day with a parade and cultural actions.” Primarily however not completely Irish, however with many from Brent’s different communities collaborating and watching.
“It’s nice to {photograph} the folks out on the road to have a good time, and desirous to have their footage taken, and there was a lot to {photograph}, together with after all St Patrick himself main the procession, together with the mayor, Kensal Inexperienced councillor Bertha Joseph, in her second time period as mayor.“
“She was brent’s first African Caribbean mayor in 1998. however after all the true stars of the occasion have been the folks of all ages who have been collaborating and having a high quality time.”
“After the parade there was time for the tradition – within the type of a pint of Guinness in an actual Irish bar, after which I went to look at the band ‘Neck’ performing, and the folks dancing to their music.“
It was a high quality occasion, the band clearly setting out not simply to play however to entertain the viewers and doing so in nice type.
Extra footage of Brent St Patrick’s Day Parade start right here, and you can too view these I took on the next day at London Celebrates St Patrick’s Day.
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