Druids, Paddington & Hizb ut-Tahrir: This 12 months the Autumn Equinox is on Sunday 22 September at 12.44pm GMT (1.44pm BST), and the Druid Order will once more be holding their ceremony on Primrose Hill in London as they’ve for a few years. They meet earlier to get issues prepared however the ceremmony begins round 12.30 The images listed below are from the occasion in 2013, and afterwards I took a stroll round Paddington Basin earlier than going to {photograph} the beginning of a march by the ladies and youngsters of Hizb ut-Tahrir in opposition to the massacres of civilians being dedicated by the Assad regime in Syria.
Druids Have fun Autumn Equinox – Primrose Hill
The Druid Order celebrated the Autumn Equinox (Alban Elued) with a ceremony on prime of Primrose Hill in London at 1pm on Sunday 22 September 2013 of their conventional robes. They’ve been organising comparable celebrations for simply over a 100 years.
In My London Diary you may learn an outline of what takes place at this occasion, which marks the beginning of the Druid 12 months.
On their web page they write “The harvest competition, when the facility of heaven is infused into the fruits of the earth, and also you reap what you will have sowed. You see the complete actuality, what you product of your goals, tasks and plans, the precise actuality, the reality that provides understanding and knowledge.”
The images on My London Diary are within the order during which I took them and I believe embody all the important thing moments within the ceremony, along with some commentary within the captions.
I had photographed this and the Spring Equinox ceremony at Tower Hill on a variety of earlier events and you will discover photos on the March and September pages for many years from 2007 to 2013.
By 2013 I used to be starting to really feel I had little extra to say concerning the occasion and the next 12 months, 2014 was the ultimate time I went to take photos.
A couple of of the images had been taken with the assistance of a monopod which enabled me to carry the digital camera a number of toes above my head and take photos with the assistance of a distant launch. However though I may management the second of launch it was difficult to maintain the lens pointing in the precise course.
Additionally on My London Diary is a quick historical past of the Druid Order, which though it has historical roots within the Druidic custom was based a bit over 100 years in the past.
There are a selection of different Druid orders, some with very comparable names, and members of the Free Affiliation of Druids together with the Druid of Wormwood Scrubbs watched for some time earlier than leaving for their very own ceremony within the close by Hawthorn Grove.
Extra on My London Diary at Druids Have fun Autumn Equinox.
Paddington Basin
I had a while after the top of the Equinox ceremony earlier than a protest I used to be to {photograph} and determined to take a stroll round Paddington Basin, near the place that was to begin.
Paddington Basin is the London finish of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal and was opened in 1801 to convey items by canal into Westminster and to the beginning of the New Street, a toll street throughout the north of London, now the A501. The Paddington finish is now Marylebone Street and additional on it turns into Euston Street.
Paddington Basin misplaced a few of its site visitors a bit over twenty years later with the opening of the Regent’s Canal, which led from the Paddington Arm at Little Venice on to the sting of the Metropolis and on to the River Thames at Limehouse.
Growth of the realm across the canal started in 1998 in one in every of London’s bigger improvement areas underneath the Paddington Regeneration Partnership, later the Paddington Waterside Partnership.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Ladies March for Syria – Paddington Inexperienced
Ladies of Hizb ut-Tahrir appalled by the chemical assault and different massacres of girls and youngsters in Syria marched in London to indicate solidarity and referred to as for Muslim armies to mobilise to defend the blood of their Ummah.
Hizb ut-Tahrir protests are at all times segregated and sometimes appear to marginalise ladies, however this was clearly their present, with just one small group of males with a banner and a heavy public tackle system and round a thousand ladies and youngsters.
The decision to the march said “rows upon rows of useless kids of their burial shrouds have little doubt introduced us to tears as Muslim ladies, for that is our beloved Ummah that’s being killed.” They referred to as on ladies to “Stand in solidarity along with your sisters in Syria and converse out in opposition to the shedding of their blood and that of their households and youngsters.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir oppose the present corrupt rulers in Islamic states and name on Muslims to stand up and do away with corruption, and particularly of “the prison 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.”
I left the marchers as they went down the Edgware Street on their strategy to the Syrian Embassy in Belgrave Sq..
Hizb ut-Tahrir was banned within the UK as a terrorist organisation in January 2024 after protests in London during which it praised assaults on Israel.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Ladies March for Syria
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