Lewisham Hospital, Greenwich Peninsula, Syria & Mali: As typically after I had a protracted break between two occasions I took the chance to take an in depth stroll in one among my favorite areas of London and on Friday fifteenth February I went to the Thames Path at Greenwich after a lunchtime protest at Lewisham Hospital. Then I went to Whitehall for a small protest towards Western navy intervention in Mali and Syria and a doable assault on Iran.
Battle to Save Lewisham Hospital Continues
A lunchtime rally on the battle memorial reverse the Hospital made clear that the battle by the complete local people to save lots of providers at their hospital was persevering with.
In addition to a authorized problem there have been to be additional mass demonstrations together with a ‘Born in Lewisham Hospital’ protest the next month.
Folks within the space and all involved with the way forward for the NHS have been appalled by Jeremy Hunt’s resolution to just accept to the proposals for closure, that are medically unsound and would result in extra sufferers dying, however they’d lead to an enormous waste of public funds.
The monetary drawback that led to the proposal was brought on not by Lewisham however by a disastrous PFI (non-public finance initiative) settlement to construct a hospital a number of miles away.
As I wroteL “Lewisham is a profitable and financially sound hospital which has acquired wise public funding to offer updated providers, and the providers that might be lower there must be arrange once more and supplied elsewhere by different hospitals. Closing Lewisham is not going to solely incur excessive prices, however will consequence within the waste of the earlier funding in its amenities.”
In making his resolution Hunt intentionally got down to mislead the general public by describing the alternative of A&E as solely a small discount in A&E providers. The proposed pressing care centre might solely take care of round 30% of the circumstances at present being coated. Comparable the alternative of the present maternity service by a midwife solely unit might solely take care of round 10% of present births – and life-threatening transfers can be mandatory if problems rose in these.
You’ll be able to learn a fuller account of the protest and extra footage at Battle to Save Lewisham Hospital Continues.
Thames Path – North Greenwich – Greenwich
I took a bus to North Greenwich and tried to stroll alongside the Thames Path, components of which had reopened after a protracted closure. It was a heat day for February and began off sunny, although later the climate modified giving some dramatic skies.
The trail from Delta Wharf and north to Drawdock Street was nonetheless vlosed however past that in each instructions the trail was open. I’m undecided what all of the work happening was about, however partly it was to offer a brand new part of the trail, and to place in new breakwaters. A while later in fact there might be new riverside flats right here, however for the second these have been being constructed nearer to Greenwich.
One pretty latest addition to the trail was the Greenwich meridian marker on the backside centre of this image, the road going alongside within the hole between two steel beams and pointing north throughout the river.
And a little bit additional to the east is the sculpture A Slice of Actuality by Richard Wilson. Within the following yr this was to grow to be a part of London’s first public artwork stroll, The Line. It’s a 30ft slice of the previous sand dredger Arco Trent – Google’s AI will get it badly incorrect by describing it as “an eighth-scale duplicate“. Because the identify suggests it’s a slice of the particular ship.
As I turned again and walked in direction of Greenwich there have been some dramatic skies and lighting, but additionally some barely boring highway strolling the place the trail was diverted away from the river.
Quickly I used to be capable of return to the riverside path and stroll via the surreal panorama of an mixture wharf.
The ultimate part of the stroll on my method into Greenwich had been focused by guerilla knitters.
I used to be getting wanting time, and will solely cease to make one panorama though the climate was excellent for it.
This view exhibits the riverside path at left going south on the left and north on the proper – a view of over 180 levels. The shoreline right here extremely curved was in actuality straight. I believe the picture digitally combines half a dozen overlapping frames.
By then I used to be having to rush to catch the prepare again into central London – and the sunshine was falling.
Many extra footage from this stroll at Thames Path Greenwich Partly Open.
Cease Western Intervention in Syria & Mali – Downing St
This protest had been known as by Cease the Battle on the tenth anniversary of the march by 2 million towards the Iraq battle in 2003, the most important protest march ever seen within the UK (and with many others world wide additionally marching.)
On this event they have been calling for a cease to Western intervention in Mali and Syria and towards the doable assault on Iran however the numbers collaborating have been very a lot smaller, with solely round 100 turning up.
Amongst them have been supporters of Syria’s President Assad and Cease the Battle had misplaced an excessive amount of assist by opposing the assistance being given to teams towards his regime, with many on the left calling for an finish to his regime.
Cease Western Intervention in Syria & Mali
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