Chariot Pageant, Olympic Web site and Notting Hill. Sunday twenty seventh August 2006, sixteen years in the past was a busy day for me, travelling to East Ham to {photograph} a vibrant Hindu pageant, then on to Stratford for a brief stroll alongside the Excessive Avenue and Bow Again Rivers, earlier than taking the underground and ending up on Ladbroke Grove for the Kids’s Day of the Notting Hill Carnival.
It was a part of a really full few days for me, having received again to London after a few weeks in Paris and some days with household in Beeston. Friday I’d put my folding bike on the practice to Greenhithe and spent a day biking round there and Swanscombe, Saturday I’d walked round 12 miles on the London Loop and after the occasions right here on Monday I’d returned to Notting Hill for the carnival itself, after which I wanted a number of days relaxation. The textual content right here is taken from My London Diary – with a number of corrections, applicable capitalisation and a few further feedback. There are some extra particulars within the captions on the image pages of those occasions.
Sri Mahalakshmi Temple Chariot Pageant – East Ham
Sunday morning discovered me in East Ham, the place the Hindu Sri Mahalakshmi Temple was holding its chariot pageant. It was a vibrant and pleasant occasion, however I quickly felt I’d taken sufficient footage and left.
It’s exhausting to indicate the flames when the choices of meals are made to the god, and troublesome to catch the color of the event.
Lea Navigation and Bow Again Rivers – Stratford
On my manner again from East Ham I ended off at Bromley-by-Bow and walked as much as Stratford Excessive Avenue and alongside the rivers and channels there.
Elements have been so thickly coated with vibrant inexperienced progress that they appeared as if I might have walked alongside them.
There was one other website demolished on the excessive road, with new housing beginning to go up.
Notting Hill Carnival – Childrens Day – Notting Hill
However the large occasion of August is at all times Notting Hill Carnival, and I used to be there each on the Sunday afternoon for Childrens’ Day and for the primary occasion on the Monday, taking pictures each black and white movie and color digital.
[I noted back in 2006 that when I would get round to processing the black and white film is “anyone’s guess”. I think it was around ten years later that I finally admitted I wasn’t going to develop the chromogenic black and white films myself and the chemicals were probably past their best and I sent them for commercial processing. Though by then I wasn’t sure whether I had taken them in 2006 or 2007. But back to my 2006 post.]
Maybe it’s as a result of I’m getting older, however I didn’t get the identical buzz from this 12 months’s occasion as in earlier years, although many of the identical issues gave the impression to be round.
Maybe this was the issue; most of them did appear to be the identical, two years on from after I final photographed the occasion. Final 12 months, 2005, I attempted to go, dragging myself to the station with a knee damage, however the ache was an excessive amount of to proceed. This 12 months my knee held out, although I used to be glad to sink right into a seat on the Underground at Latimer Street on the finish of the day.
I didn’t take many color footage on Kids’s Day, and most weren’t of youngsters, and I believe I most likely didn’t keep lengthy, however there are numerous extra on the pages which observe on from there taken the next day.
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