Three Mills, Xenophobia & Infinite Love: On Saturday eleventh February 2011 I went to an industrial archaeology assembly within the morning at Three Mills, one of many nation’s most vital surviving early industrial websites on the River Lea in Newham on its border with Tower Hamlets, then went again into central London for a rally in opposition to Xenophobia adopted by a free Valentine road social gathering at Piccadilly Circus. I wrote about all three on My London Diary, with in fact pictures however like all posts on that web site on the time this can be a little troublesome each to seek out and skim – so I’ll repeat it right here with correct capitalisation, minor corrections, a couple of further hyperlinks so as to add context and hyperlinks to all the photographs.
Three Mills, Bromley-by-Bow
Saturday I used to be up early on my approach to a gathering at Three Mills, Bromley-by-Bow. These mills are nearly all that can be left standing on this space of the Lea valley by the event for the 2012 London Olympics and an enormous development in housing. If you wish to see the Decrease Lea Valley, you’d higher get down there quickly earlier than all of it disappears. The plans aren’t a lot regeneration however extra a complete substitute.
I arrived early so I might take a brief stroll and some photos, and after lunch was in a position to take some photos from the higher flooring of the Mill Homeowners Home. The entire space is one which performed an vital half within the improvement of many industries, and is plagued by websites of curiosity to industrial archaeologists, whereas buried beneath these are probably vital stays from medieval and earlier instances. An vital a part of our heritage, and all more likely to be bulldozed with at most a token report being made.
I first visited the Lea Valley within the Nineteen Eighties. You may see a couple of of my photos from it on my unfinished web site River Lee – Lee Valley, though this covers a quite wider space than the Olympic web site. There are additionally some photos from the world elsewhere on this web site – use the search field.
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United Towards Xenophobia – Trafalgar Sq.
In the meantime, again in Trafalgar Sq., round ten thousand folks, primarily British Muslims, had gathered in a rally organised by the Muslim Council of Britain to reveal they had been united in opposition to xenophobia. In addition to displaying their disapproval of these cartoons depicting Muhammad, they had been additionally decided to disassociate themselves from extra excessive Muslim teams.
It was a gathering of respectable folks, behaving decently, listening to respectable audio system talking decently, carrying solely the permitted respectable placards, overwhelmingly respectable. By some means it hardly appeared an actual demonstration.
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Reclaim Love 3 – Operation Infinite Love, Eros, Picadilly Circus
However I had a date with Eros, and wandered alongside to Piccadilly Circus the place St Valentine was being honoured with a gathering by O-I-L, Operation Infinite Love.
“In response to the expansion of confusion and worry on the earth… we now have determined to ship love and therapeutic to all of the beings on this world, lots of whom are struggling as we speak.”
That is the third such annual occasion, and likewise carried the purpose that you just didn’t want to purchase costly items, giving love was what mattered.
After some extremely spirited samba from the Spirits Of Resistance everybody current made a big circle to “ship love out from the underside of our hearts to the entire world and all of the beings upon her“.
Then the sound system began up and everybody was dancing.
I stayed on the occasion taking photos till the sunshine started to fade after which went house, taking with me one of many a whole lot of free t-shirts that got out by Venus and her buddies.
I photographed most of those free annual Valentines road events over time till 2019. Though a couple of folks have tried to get them going once more since Covid I believe few folks have turned as much as social gathering.
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