King’s Cross, Excel and a Musical Protest: Like different posts within the early years of My London Diary the textual content and photos from Saturday twenty sixth November 2005 are quite hidden away and it isn’t at all times straightforward to attach photos with textual content. And it had appeared on the time a good suggestion to jot down the texts all in decrease case, which makes them quite troublesome to learn, so I now wish to resurrect a few of them sometimes in a extra accessible method, linking again to the unique pages for extra photos than in these posts on >Re:PHOTO.
Kings Cross – by no means once more!
As I walked up the escalator (sure, I used to be late once more) at King’s Cross I remembered the interviews with those that had been caught there within the horrible hearth, pondering how onerous it might be to search out the way in which out in smoke-filled darkness. Components of the station nonetheless look a horrible mess, although that’s commonplace in our underground system.
Up at floor stage was a joint trades union demonstration in reminiscence of the fireplace, and to defend the protection guidelines that are at present below assault by administration wanting to save lots of prices. Kings Cross – By no means Once more! was deal with by numerous audio system together with Mick Connolly, John Mcdonnell MP Jeremy Corbyn MP, Keith Norman (ASLEF), Matt Wrack (FBU), and Bob Crow (RMT), all nervous by the menace to the general public and those that work on the Underground or in rescue providers.
Correct security procedures are significantly very important when in addition to unintended disasters such because the King’s Cross hearth, the protection of the system can be threatened by deliberate terrorist assaults.
I’d hoped the occasion would finish in time for me to get to a lecture on the ICA, however it was too late. I went that approach simply the identical, getting off the tube at Charing Cross and strolling down Whitehall to Westminster station for the Jubilee Line, previous the Cenotaph, surrounded now by a low fence. It was nonetheless coated by the wreaths of poppies from earlier within the month, now partly coated by the falling leaves from the various London aircraft timber, one other and in some methods extra touching image of loss.
Extra photos from Kings Cross – by no means once more!
Excel and Victoria Dock
It was a day of low winter solar, and stormy showers, with spectacular clouds within the broad open skies over the expanse of the Royal Docks, and a few peculiar colors. The demonstration I’d gone to see was nowhere to be discovered after I arrived, and I wandered the dock property marvelling within the views.
Particularly the high-level bridge over the dock is considered one of new London’s extra spectacular sights, and a fantastic viewing platform. In contrast to the final time I visited, the lifts had been working too. A small group of individuals with musical devices started to assemble on the highest, however they turned out solely to be a band coming for a photograph session.
Extra photos from Excel and Victoria Dock.
East London Towards the Arms Commerce
I’d roughly given up and determined to go dwelling at that time when within the distance I heard the brassy notes of the Crimson Flag, and made my approach in the direction of them. By the point I’d arrived on the entrance to the Excel Centre, they had been into the Internationale, full with new phrases for the event (besides that no-one was singing them, and I didn’t fancy a solo function):
We’re informed that revenue from the arms truthful will
trickle down throughout city,
However it’s killing our sisters and our brothers,
it’s their blood that’s trickling down.
All individuals now rally!
No arms truthful anywhere!
The Intenationale unites the human race!
Subsequent got here the Cutty Wren, a track from the Peasant’s Revolt, which took my thoughts again to Fobbing the place I’d been ten days earlier.
The Excel centre has hosted a number of arms festivals which have attracted numerous protests from native teams. One of many native papers, the Newham Recorder, present in a ballot that 79% of native residents oppose them, and London Mayor Ken Livingstone has additionally voiced his opposition. Additional arms festivals are already booked for 2007, 2009 and 2011 and the musical protest was considered one of numerous actions trying to get the Excel centre to cancel these future occasions.
Extra photos at East London Towards the Arms Commerce.
And I returned in these later years to {photograph} many protests agains the arms festivals – and yow will discover photos of them on varied September pages on My London Dairy.
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