Temple Pageant: 400 Years of Center & Inside Temple – Saturday nineteenth January, 2008
A number of weeks in the past I spent an attention-grabbing afternoon with a number of pals. We met at Temple underground station then walked up Milford Lane and into the Center Temple, turning proper at Fountain Court docket, passing Center Temple Corridor, turning north into Center Temple Lane after which proper into Pump Court docket after which paying our entry payment to go to Temple Church, one in every of London’s extra outstanding historical church buildings. After a very long time there we walked out and up Fetter Lane to Holborn Circus and on to Ely Place and spending a while in St Etheldreda’s RC Church, additionally value a go to, earlier than turning again and down Ely Place to the Previous Mitre pub.
This is just one of many in London value a go to, and we quickly left for an additional and at last for a meal in a type of Wetherspoons is presently attempting to promote. Sitting there I reviewed the quite a few photos I had taken on the stroll, and thought a number of weren’t dangerous. Once I bought residence I took the SD card out of the digicam and left it on my desk. The next morning I put it into my USB card reader however the reader didn’t reply and nothing got here up on my laptop. I put it again into the digicam and bought an error message and the digicam was now additionally unable to learn the cardboard. I attempted one other digicam with the identical end result.
I rigorously cleaned the contacts on the cardboard, however that didn’t assist. I googled a bit, however the entire articles I discovered assumed you could possibly entry the cardboard, which I couldn’t. I gave up and binned the cardboard. I’ve by no means had this downside earlier than utilizing CF and SD playing cards for 20 years, taking photos most days. On one or two events I’ve had to make use of rescue software program to learn information from playing cards, and again within the early days I did handle to overwrite some information after I had put them on my laptop with smaller variations of the identical pictures, however I can’t recall ever having been unable to entry the information in any respect. And I did on one event lose one or two full playing cards after the pocket they have been in was ripped when issues bought quite bodily in a protest I used to be overlaying.
Fortuitously it didn’t actually matter. I’d had an gratifying afternoon, and the photographs, although attention-grabbing weren’t vital. I might in principle return and repeat them, presumably higher, although it’s most unlikely I’ll. And though there have been some locations on our route I’d not photographed earlier than, others I had, for instance on the go to the photographs right here come from, when on Saturday nineteenth January 2008 the Center & Inside Temple have been celebrating 400 years since James I granted the location in perpetuity to the Honourable Societies of the Center and Inside Temple for coaching and accommodating barristers, provided that additionally they taken care of the Temple Church.
In fact the Temple Church was by then virtually 450 years outdated – right here’s the primary couple of paras of what I wrote again in 2008:
The Knights Templar moved down from the north finish of Chancery Lane to Temple round 1160, and naturally constructed a church. Quickly after they have been suppressed in 1308, the location went to the Order of St John, and never lengthy after they leased the location to some legislation college students.
Henry VIII didn’t simply turn into head of the church in England to make it simpler to alter wives, but in addition used it to seize for himself the massive riches of the monasteries – together with the Temple web site with its two templar halls filled with legal professionals. (When there was a pilgrimage of a number of thousand in protest, led by lawyer Robert Aske, Henry promised to look into their complaints and most went residence completely satisfied. Then he had Aske hung in chains from a church tower till he starved to demise and forgot his guarantees. However Aske got here from Gray’s Inn, not the Temple.)
You possibly can learn the remainder of my put up and see extra photos at Center & Inside Temple – 400 Years.
Ashura Day Procession – Marble Arch, Saturday 19 Jan, 2008
The Knights Templar have been after all preventing within the crusades towards Islam in Palestine and elsewhere, and their church has memorials to lots of the nobler knights, together with some who bear my household title, although virtually definitely I’m not in any means descended from them. Marshalls have been steady boys in addition to knights. But it surely did appear acceptable indirectly that my day took me from the Temple (although I didn’t on that event go within the Temple Church) to one of many main Islamic non secular commemorations of Shia Islam.
Ashura Day remembers the martyrdom of Husain and his small group of followers at Kerbala, Iraq in 61AH (680 AD.) Processions in London have taken place for a few years now, and I first photographed one in every of them in 2000, returning in a number of years together with 2008. It takes place yearly on the tenth of Muharram, which I believe in 2023 shall be July twenty ninth.
The occasion started at Marble Arch after which a number of thousand folks walked alongside Hyde Park Place and the Bayswater Highway, some banging drums and blowing trumpets, whereas others chant by means of loudspeakers to guide the primarily black-clad walkers of their mourning, remembering the martyrdom of Husain and his small group of followers.
I left the procession, which was on its solution to the Islamic Centre in Penzance Place in Notting Hill, at Lancaster Gate. It was getting quite darkish and taking photos by accessible mild was changing into difficult – and I used to be getting drained and glad to get on the tube.
Many extra photos at Ashura Day Procession.
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