Fathers, Turkey, Routemasters, a Christmas Market and Ethiopia: Textual content and footage from a busy day in London on Friday ninth December 2005, exhumed, corrected and barely polished from the depths of ‘My London Diary‘ with hyperlinks to the various extra footage of every occasion there.
Fathers4Justice: 24 Days of Christmas Chaos – Westminster

I’ve photographed Fathers4Justice on a number of earlier events. At the moment they have been profiting from Christmas and the Father Christmas concept to protest towards the Church of England. Being on a Friday, there have been somewhat fewer father and mom Christmases (and Santa’s little helpers have been primarily in school, although a few of their dads behind the whiskers have been pulling a sickie.) It was nonetheless an arresting sight to see so many figures wearing crimson on the road, together with some somewhat inflated figures in inflatable fits.
After somewhat a sluggish begin occasions warmed up a bit exterior the places of work of the Church of England, and, just a few yards down the highway, the Division for Schooling and Expertise. After all our ‘critical crimes’ legislation now forbids the usage of amplified sound in demonstrations, so the Fathers merely needed to shout somewhat loud. The following place for a cease was in fact reverse Downing Road, the place there have been extra shouted feedback. I left the march because it turned down Whitehall Place on its option to the Legislation Courts on Strand.
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Free Mehmet Tarhan – Turkish Airways, Pall Mall

Exterior Turkish Airways on the backside of Haymarket there was a picket protesting towards Turkish imprisonment of protestors, particularly Mehmet Tarhan, a homosexual conscientious objector. Lately, his 4-year sentence for refusing army service was overruled on procedural grounds, and he’s to be retried for ‘insistent insubordination with the intent of evading army service.’

London Transport – Final day for the Routemaster

The final correct bus service to make use of London’s signature Routemaster double-decker buses, route 159, ceased in the present day, with its buses being changed by extra trendy designs. I caught one of many final to run to take me right down to Westminster, then photographed it. Though the official ‘final bus’ had already run, there have been a number of others following on, with the ultimate pair passing Massive Ben 28 minutes after I made my image.
Transport for London continued to make use of just a few Routemasters operating in London on two particular brief ‘heritage routes’ each operating previous Trafalgar Sq., thus retaining one in all our vacationer sights.
[Routemasters were first introduced in 1956 and the two ‘TfL heritage routes’ were ended in 2019 though you still see them operated by private companies in a variety of guises. Routemasters jolt, rattle and jerk on London’s streets but I do very much miss the ability to jump off and board them at the many halts and delays in the increasingly congested streets.]
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Victorian Christmas Market – Chrisp St, Poplar

Chrisp Road Market was a part of an early post-war public housing redevelopment, the Lansbury Property, constructed for the 1951 Pageant Of Britain in a Docklands space that had suffered appreciable bomb harm. Fifty or so years later it was starting to indicate its age and there was some tidying up and its pedestrian precincts are actually somewhat tidier than just a few years in the past.
The market is bustling with life, extra so than regular after I visited, as there have been two days of a particular Victorian Christmas occasion. There have been varied particular stalls out there, and likewise entertainers wandering round and acting on a small stage. Children from two native colleges had additionally come to carry out however sadly I needed to depart earlier than they’d actually began.
I’d hoped to return on the next day, Saturday, when issues would have been livelier, however ultimately i simply couldn’t make it.
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The Ethiopian Tragedy – Cease UK Help – Marble Arch

At Marble Arch there was a crowd gathering of Ethiopians from throughout Europe, come to protest on the British authorities’s help of an oppressive communist regime of their nation. [Others describe Ethiopia as an authoritarian regime with poor civil and human rights.]
Greater than 70,000 persons are detained by the regime, being tortured and dying in focus camps. Britain is spending £30 million of our cash to help the regime that’s violating human rights there. The protestors need the British public to induce their MPs to help motions on the state of affairs in Ethiopia and demand an finish to those crimes.
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