Lawyers Funeral for Legal Aid: On Wednesday 22nd May 2013 the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association organised a protest with a mock funeral, rally and mock trial outside Parliament against government plans to severely restrict legal aid.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) had already cut huge areas out of legal aid, including many family, employment, housing and debt problems. This was a cost-saving exercise which greatly reduced access to justice for the great majority of people.
The Scales of Justice
The government were now proposing to end the right of legal aid clients to chose their solicitor with the work going to the cheapest bid under ‘price-competitive tendering’. As well as bankrupting many smaller law first this would open up “provision of legal aid to large non-legal companies, including Eddie Stobart and Tesco, and remove the ability of those in need of legal aid to chose appropriate specialists in the legal area involved.”
The event began with a parade by a marching jazz band leading a coffin with the meassage ‘RIP LEGAL AID’ carried by black-clad pallbearers wearing legal wigs, with the Scales of Justice in attendance.
‘A New Scale of Justice Mr Grayling?’ – Tesco and Eddie Stobart
Then came the speeches – very many of them, but at least there was a time-keeper ensuring they kept to a 5 minute limit – and some were quite amusing.
Among the speakers were politicians including Sadiq Khan, Jeremy Corbyn, and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, senior legal figures and some who had benefited from legal aid, including Gerry Conlan, one of the Guildford 40, a member of the family of Jean Charles De Menezes, Susan Matthews, mother of Alfie Meadows and Breda Power, the daughter of Billy Power, one of the Birmingham 6.
Others included Clive Stafford Smith, the founder of Reprieve, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree (a qualified solicitor) and QC Helena Kennedy. There are pictures of most of the speakers on My London Diary
After all the speeches there was a summing up by leading barrister John Cooper QC after which the whole assembly delivered its verdict on Grayling, ‘guilty as charged’.
Barclays & Solidarity with Gaza: On Saturday 19th May 2018 I photographed a monthly vigil calling on Barclays Bank to end its funding for climate chaos and then went on to another branch of Barclays on Tottenham Court Road for the start of a rolling pictures against businesses along Oxford Street against other businesses which are major supporters of the Israeli state.
Barclays Stop Funding Climate Chaos
Piccadilly Circus
I met the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE) in Golden Square Soho and walked with them as they processed to the Piccadilly Circus branch of Barclays Bank in a monthly vigil to call on the bank to Stop Funding Climate Chaos.
Three of the group then sat down to meditate in the centre of the floor of the bank with their placards, and another from the group told bank staff what they were intending to do, while others meditated on the pavement outside the bank and some of the group handed out leaflets.
The called on Barclays to ‘Listen to the Earth!’ and stop investing huge amounts – $12billion in the previous 3 years – into coal, oil and gas exploration which will lead to global warming, melting ice caps, bleaching coral reefs, causing forest fires and more intense storms.
They also pointed out the human rights abuses connected with their investments in Colombian coal mines and more and urged Barclays to switch their investments into renewables.
I left DANCE protesting at the Piccadilly Barclays and went to Tottenham Court Road, where the Revolutionary Communist Group had set up a street stall outside the Barclays close to Oxford Street.
‘Boycott Israel’ poster showing Ahed Tamimi slapping an Israeli soldier
A few days earlier the world had been shocked by the news of Israeli army snipers shooting unarmed protesters in Gaza, killing 58 and seriously wtargetounding over 2700.
Most were several hundred yards from the separation wall, posing no threat to Israel and many were shot in the back or legs as they ran away. Among those deliberately targeted by the snipers were medics treating the wounded and clearly identified journalists wearing distinctive blue press vests.
The snipers were thought to have been using special ammunition made in the UK which expands inside the body to cause greater damage.
After a short protest outside Barclays with a speech explaining how it supports the Israeli government and handing out leaflets, the group moved on to make similar short protests outside other major supporters of the Israeli state on Oxford St including Carphone Warehouse, Boots, ZARA and H&M, calling for shoppers to boycott them and to take part in the global BDS campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
Lambeth College March for Further Education: Lambeth college workers and supporters from around the country marched to a rally in Brixton on Saturday 17th May 2014 against plans to ‘restructure’ the college, selling off most of it Brixton campus to allow a so-called ‘free school’ to be set off, and attacking the pay and conditions of the academic and service staff.
People came from FE colleges across the country to join the Lambeth college marchers
As well as cutting the pay to staff, increasing their working hours and cutting holiday and sickness benefits, the management were also setting out to break the power of both the lecturers union UCU and Unison which represents service workers at the college.
Lambeth College management had recently spent tens of thousands of pounds to get an injunction against the UCU after a 95% vote for a strike in a ballot with a 70% turnout. A re-ballot was expected to result in even greater support for a strike.
Brixton Ritzy Cinema strikers support the march
Unison appeared to be slightly less supportive of its members who had called unanimously for an indefinite strike at meetings, forcing them to have a time-wasting and bureaucratic ballot about whether they wanted a ballot, rather than an immediate strike ballot.
The planned Trinity free school was not needed in Brixton which according to the council already had a variety of good schools with space and although the proposal was for a “non-selective school with a Catholic ethos“, was not supported by the Catholic diocese who feel it would have a negative impact on existing Catholic secondaries in the area. It appeared to be aiming to promote right-wing and anti-science views on evolution.
The UCU recognised that the dispute at Lambeth was not just a local issue but one of national significance; if Lambeth could get away with doing this, other colleges would follow their lead. Representatives from colleges across London and the Midlands and further had come with banners to support the protest.
The march went past Stockwell station where Jean Charles de Menezes was murdered by policw in 2005And past the tree of remembrance at Brixton Police Station for Ricky Bishop, Sean Rigg and others killed there
It was also widely seen as an attack on trade unions, and among speakers at the rally in Brixton were Ian Hodson, the general secretary of the Baker’s union BFAWU and Labour MP John McDonnell.
Lambeth College became a part of the London South Bank University Group on 31 January 2019 as part of South Bank Colleges established by LSBU to operate further education provision (16-19 yrs) in the area.
Wikipedia comments: “While the dispute was not fully resolved, it prompted a dialogue about staff concerns and led to investments in the college’s facilities, including a redevelopment of the Brixton campus, the construction of the new Nine Elms campus, and, now, a re-build of the Clapham campus (planning permission granted in February 2024).”
Conscientious Objectors, Cannabis Education & Bengali New Year: Three unrelated events on 15th May 2005 in London. May 15th has been observed in Europe as Conscientious Objectors’ Day since 1982 and became International in 1985 when it was adopted by War Resisters’ International. A ceremony is held every year on the day in Tavistock Square at the site of the massive slate Conscientious Objectors’ Commemorative Stone which has the inscriptions:
TO COMMEMORATE MEN & WOMEN
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS TO MILITARY SERVICE
ALL OVER THE WORLD & IN EVERY AGE
TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE
ESTABLISHED AND
ARE MAINTAINING
THE RIGHT TO
REFUSE TO KILL
Their foresight and
courage give us hope
THIS STONE WAS DEDICATED ON 15 MAY 1994
INTERNATIONAL CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS' DAY
I left before the end of the ceremony and hurried to Russell Square for the start of the annual march calling for the legalisation of cannabis, walking with this to Trafalgar Square and then taking the tube to go to Brick Lane for the Bengali New Year Festival. Below is what I wrote in 2005.
The Right to Refuse to Kill – International Conscientious Objectors Day
Tavistock Square
May 15th was International Conscientious Objectors’ Day, and the ‘right to refuse to kill’ group of people from the Peace Pledge Union, Conscience, The Unitarian Peace Fellowship, Christian CND, The Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, Pax Christi, The Women’s International League For Peace And Freedom And Dances Of Universal Peace had organised a ceremony at the Commemorative stone in Tavistock Square. After a brief introduction by Tony Kempster of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, Sue Gilmurray sang her song ‘Heroes’ and then Angela Sinclair who was a conscientious objector in the Second World War told her story and spoke about the right not to take part in war.
After a speaker from Amnesty and another from Conscience, the names of almost seventy conscientious objectors, many of who had died for their beliefs, were read out. The organisers had given out white flowers labelled with their names, and as each name was read, the person holding their flower came and placed it on the stone. After a one minute silence the commemoration continued with another song and then dancing, but I had to leave at this point.
The annual march to demand the legalisation of cannabis had to be postponed and moved to a central London location after Lambeth council had refused to allow it to use Brockwell Park. Probably for this reason, the numbers seemed well down on previous years.
The last year had seen both an increasing recognition of the value of cannabis in relieving pain for some conditions, and also in revealing the mental health problems it causes some users. Despite these, the existing anti-drugs policies are more and more discredited, leading to increasing crime and addiction, and also greatly increasing the probability of cannabis users moving on to more dangerous and addictive drugs.
Cannabis needs to be taken out of the hands of drug dealers, and into some form of legalised supply chain which would cut out the drug dealers, allow better supervision of the product and create a total separation between cannabis and other more dangerous substances.
It would also allow the creation of a tax revenue, some of which could be spent on the rehabilitation of drug users.
I went with the march to Trafalgar Square and stayed to listen to a couple of the speakers, but soon lost interest and got on the District Line to go up to Brick Lane for the Bengali New Year Festival.
When I got there it was just too crowded; after walking around for a few minutes I gave up and came home.
Grenfell Protest Calls for Justice: On Monday 14th May 2018 Parliament were debating a petition with over 150,00 signatures calling for a panel of decision making experts to sit alongside Sir Martin Moore-Bick in the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry.
A woman who worked in the Grenfell nursery and her mother with placards
PM Theresa May had 3 days earlier announced there would be two experts appointed for the second stage of the inquiry, but the Grenfell community wanted experts to be included in the first part and were questioning who the experts would be and how they were to be chosen.
‘When One Neglects Towers, One Will in the End Neglect People’
The protesters also wanted a promise that the recommendations of the inquiry would be accepted and implemented in full and that those responsible for creating the terrible fire risk to be brought to justice.
Unfortunately the inquiry had been set up to enable the guilty to evade justice. Despite the mass of clear evidence against those responsible it enabled the police to state they had to let it run its course before they could examine its evidence and decide if there should be prosecutions. And the inquiry had no power to start criminal proceeding and would not investigate the very issues of a “social, economic and political nature” that were central to why it happened.
Clarrie Mendy of Humanity For Grenfell, whose cousin Mary Mendy and her daughter Khadija Saye died in the fire,
As well as the Tories wanting to protect their own, particularly in the Kensington and Chelsea Council, Labour, including then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn colluded in this deliberate pushing of Grenfell into the long grass, although he also called for further efforts to establish a process to investigate those “broader failings” which Sir Martin Moore-Bick was determined to avoid.
Despite this, as well as many speakers from local Grenfell organisations, there wer also prominent Labour Party speakers at the event – Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor Richard Burgon, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbot and then Labour MP for Kensington Emma Dent Coad.
The Revolutionary Communist Group have supported the campaign to get the truth about Grenfell
SNP MP Joanna Cherry also spoke, but the event organisers refused to let a more radical speaker from the Revolutionary Communist Group go to the microphone. But the RCG, who had been active in organising protests over Grenfell as well as taking part in the monthly silent walks, had as usual brought their own public address system for their speaker.
Last year after a short, inept and very partial failed “consultation” with Grenfell survivors and bereaved families, then Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced that Grenfell Tower would be “brought to the ground” and a memorial set up in its place.
Then Labour MP for Kensington Emma Dent Coadwho lost the seat in 2019
Also taking place outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday 14th May 2018 was a protest by the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party UK calling for the release of their party leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, jailed in February for five years for embezzlement of international funds donated to Zia Orphanage Trust.
Her arrest and conviction was widely seen as a political attack by her rival Sheikh Hasina Wazed, leader of the Awami League; the two women dominated politics in Bangladesh for many years. Khaleda Zia died in December 2025 a month after Sheik Hasina who had been forced to resign in 2024 was sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment. More about this protest at BNP say release Khaleda Zia.
Brian, Bears, Morris and May Queens: On Saturday 13th May 2006 I went to Parliament Square where I photographed resident peace protester Brian Haw and Morris Dancers, going on to more dancers performing in Trafalgar Square as a part of a Westminster Day of Dance. From there the Underground took me out to Hanger Lane from where I walked to Brentham to photograph the 100th anniversary of the first Brentham May Queen crowning.
Brian Haw at Parliament Square
Brian and the Bears
Brian Haw lost the appeal by the government over his protest in Parliament Square, the court deciding that the Serious Organised Crimes And Police Act did apply to his protest after all, despite it having started around 4 years before the act came into force. It seems to be a decision that reflects more on the ability of the government to apply pressure rather than one that suggests an independent judiciary.
At the moment, Brian is still there, his protest now regulated by the police, but it seems rather likely that at some moment the feel convenient they will decide to terminate it. On Saturday morning I went to have a short word with him and take some more pictures, particularly of some of the bears who are with him.
His protest from the start has been about the killing of children, at first by the effects of sanctions, then by the war, and the teddy bear symbolises this (I think of one of the most poignant images from the Second World War, by Cecil Beaton, of a child in a hospital bed with a teddy bear.) I hope to be back to see Brian tomorrow, with a few friends, if he is still there. [He was, and depite constant harassment remained there until ill-health forced him to leave in 2011, dying in a German hospital six mohnths later.]
For several years there has been a dance festival in Westminster in May, with teams of Morris Dancers from around the country. I caught up with them briefly dancing in front of St Margaret’s Church next to Westminster Abbey, then a little later in Trafalgar Square.
Although i’ve never had a great desire to take up Morris myself, it certainly is one of our English traditions, going back at least 500 years – the first written record of it is in 1448.
It was still alive in many villages in the nineteenth century and a revival started in the early twentieth century particularly through the work of Cecil Sharp, who collected over 170 different dances around the country and started the English Folk Dance Society in 1911. Sharp and Mary Neal published books of dances, and in the 1920s and 30s, country dancing became a part of most young school children’s week. How I hated it in the 1950s!
It is perhaps that enforced participation that led to Morris Dancing being thought of as something false and lacking in credibility. In a curious anomaly, our Arts Councils refuse to support English ethnic dances while (quite rightly) giving aid to foster dance and related activities among minority ethnic groups. Despite this, Morris Dancing has continued to grow both in the UK and now increasingly abroad, particularly in Canada and the USA.
All the teams in Trafalgar Square were men, although there are also many women dancers. One of the things that comes out in my pictures is that the dance is at times a very athletic event. Many of the traditional dances use swords or staves and have a link to martial arts. Morris also has a strong link to another English tradition, the ale house.
May continued for me with another May Queen. Last year (2005) I had photographed the oldest continuing May Queen event at least in the London area, the Merrie England and London May Queen Fayre at Hayes, Kent, held continuously since 1913. This year I went instead to Brentham, where a May Fayre with maypole dancing was held in 1906, and its centenary was held this year.
For this event, the organisers had managed to find and invite along many former May Queens, including some from the 1950s. Some had come long distances to be there, including one now living in America.
Brentham was one of the earliest “garden village” estates, built by ‘Ealing Tenants’ a co-partnership housing scheme started in 1901 and largely completed by 1915. The road layout was designed by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker, and it was in many ways a model for other and better known garden villages.
The Brentham May Queen is less formalised that the south London events, with little or no long speeches and ceremonies (unlike Hayes it was not set up by a Dulwich schoolmaster.)
As well as the May Queen Elect and previous May Queens, each with a small group of attendants, there is also a herald who leads the parade (aided today by a brass band) Brittania, Sailor and Soldier, and, leading the large group of around 150 young girls dressed in white with flowers, a Jack In The Green, covered with leaves, with just bare legs and sandals visible.
The crowning of the 2006 Brentham May Queen
After the parade around the area, there was a short ceremony in one of the fields by the River Brent in which last year’s May Queen crowned the new queen, and a very short speech. Following this were country dances and dancing round the maypole, but I left before this began.
‘Life NOT Money at the LSE’ protesters chalked on the roadway and lay down, blocking the street
LSE Cleaners Strike For Equality And Dignity: The protest by cleaners at the LSE on Thursday 11th May 2017 was just one more in a long series of weekly one-day strikes demanding parity of terms and conditions with other staff there who were directly employed by the LSE.
The cleaning was outsourced to cleaning contractor Noonan, who employed cleaners under considerably inferior terms – pay, holidays, pensions etc – compared to those workers employed on the site by the LSE. I had been at the meeting in September 2016 when with their union, the United Voices of the World, they began their campaign for parity of treatment and had also photographed their protests.
The UVW were eventually successful after a series of strikes featuring “flashmobs, salsa, zumba, poetry, art sessions, teach-outs” and “after 10 months of struggle, and the then largest cleaners strike in UK history and the highest number of strike days of any group of outsourced workers in UK higher education – outsourcing was ended and all cleaners were brought in-house as LSE employees! Their fight against institutional racism was the first “to force a British university to end the practice of outsourcing cleaners!“
My post told the story of the event in picture and captions which describe the harassment by police and others of some of the supporters, particularly those from Class War. Here is a brief edited version.
Noonan employs the cleaners at the LSE and the cleaners get low pay, low status and terrible managementThey work in the same place and deserve equal treatment. Their claims are supported by students and LSE staff. Trenton Oldfield brought his daughter with him to show solidarity with the cleaners.LSE Security have closed the area in front of the library normally open to the public. The road is a public highwayOne police officer starts harassing Sid Skill of Class War who has come to show solidarity. Sid refuses to talk to him and moves away – and eventually fled fearing arrest followed by two police officers, escaping them by jumping on a bus as the doors closedA woman who works in the LSE comes to tell the cleaners they are making a lot of noise and disturbing her day and then hugs the police officer and smiles when she sees I am photographing her. The cleaners say they have to make a lot of noise as the LSE management refuse to talk with them and their union.Cleaners make a noise – they want management to talk to them and to recognise their union. They also want to be treated with dignity and respect at work, a living wage and equal pensions, sick pay and other benefits.A man comes to complain to Class War about their support for the cleaners. He says that they don’t have any right to be there. Jane Nicholl puts him right. He seems to have no idea what class war is and no understanding of class solidarity. And as I suspect Jane put it is a stupid prick. Though she may have been less kind.The protesters march around the campus to visit a couple of other sites from brief protests in Lincolns Inn Fields and then Sardinia St before going to the Student Union, where there were speeches an poetry from Grim Chip of Poetry on the Picket Line.Meanwhile Life Not Money at the LSE had been at work, painting their message in chalk on the road and then sitting down on the Portugal St in front of Old Building, stopping lorries entering or leaving the LSE building site.
You can read the full version with more pictures and text at LSE Cleaners strike.
Atos Kills Disabled People: On Monday 9th May 2011 I photographed a London protest in a ‘National Week of Action Against Atos Origin‘ organised by disability activists, claimant groups and anti-cuts campaigners and supported by over 50 groups around the country.
There were around a hundred people, many with disabilities at the protest when I arrived outside the offices of Atos Healthcare in Triton Square, London. The coalition government was replacing Incapacity Benefit by Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Atos were being paid by the government to carry out computer-based tests to assess whether disabled people were capable of working. Many people clearly unable to work were being labelled as ‘fit to work’ and their benefits stopped.
The tests were designed to misrepresent the situation of claimants, not recording their actual responses to questions but giving the people carrying them out a choice of stock phrases. Often the replies chosen did not properly reflect the situation of the claimant.
A report commissioned by the government had found that Atos was not carrying out the tests properly, but their contract was still renewed. Many of those carrying out the tests were not qualified doctors, and are only allowed a short time to reach a decisions on what are often complex cases. They were also set clear targets for the proportion of claimants they must fail.
The design of the tests and the way they were being applied clearly discriminated against those suffering from mental illness and those with intermittent or fluctuating conditions. Many who are failed and refused ESA go to appeal and after some months a majority get their benefits restored – only to have them taken away again by another round of Atos testing. This cruel system had led to a number of those who had been refused benefits taking their own lives.
Among the groups taking part in the action were Disabled People Against Cuts, London Coalition Against Poverty, Mad Pride, Right to Work, Winvisible and Solidarity Federation.
Many disabled people are unable to travel to protests like this because of their disability and the failure of our Underground and train systems to provide support for disabled travel. The support needed is still very patchy and often unreliable. As well as physical protests such as this, there were also on-line protests taking place during the week of actiona.
Other disabled people fear taking part in protests might prejudice their Atos assessments with assessors concluding if they were fit to protest they are fit to work. If better support was provided more would be keen and able to do so.
Kings Cross, Israel and Anti-Zionists: Like the rest of the country I was appalled by the stabbing in Golders Green a week ago, clearly by a very disturbed individual, who had earlier in the day carried out another attempted murder in Great Dover Street in Southwark. But I was also shocked at the reactions of some politicians; clearly Wes Streeting’s interview that day on Radio 4 can only be described as ‘hate speech‘.
At least in part the increase in tension has been caused by political tirades against supporters of the Palestinian cause and the many peaceful protests they have carried out, with the repeated condemnation of them as ‘hate marches’ for calling for a just peace in Palestine.
Something politicians and the media should reflect on is that all of these marches have been attended by large number of Jewish protesters, present in a much greater proportion than their overall presence in the country.
Some of them have marched in a Jewish bloc to make their presence obvious on the marches – though the media generally and the BBC in particular have apparently decided to fail to notice this. But many others are there with other groups or as individuals – always an important part of the British left. And of course there always is a small group of highly visible ultra-orthodox anti-Zionists.
We need to defend free speech and the right to protest – including those by those whose views we find abhorrent, although there are limits which most of us support against clear incitement to violence and illegal acts. But our government seems bent on moving the goalposts on these limits – for example in its proscription of Palestine Action.
Back on the Early May Bank Holiday Monday in 2002 I came to London to cover a large pro-Israel rally, taking the opportunity also for a short walk before the protest, as well as covering an anti-Zionist counter-demonstration. I was working mainly with film cameras – black and white and colour – and there are still quite a few pictures I have yet to digitise.
Jews for justice at the pro-Israel rally
I hadn’t by May 2002 made the plunge to buy a professional digital camera. The colour pictures here were taken on a small consumer digital camera, a 2.2Mp Fuji MX-2700. The quality wasn’t bad, certainly fine for web images, and I had some pictures to post immediately. I think I also took some pictures on colour negative film that I’ve yet to digitise 24 years later.
“6 May was Bank Holiday Monday and I started with a walk round Kings Cross to see how the redevelopment there is going. The site which used to have the famous gas holders was just an empty hole in the ground.
“Then to Trafalgar Square for a large pro-israel rally on . It was quite crowded and I was pleased to see evidence that some of those attending were trying to take a balanced view.
“There were a few arguments and scuffles, but the largest surprise for me was the almost total lack of black coated Orthodox Jews in the crowds.
“Then I went to photograph the counter demonstration at the south-west corner of the square, only to find a group of Orthodox Jews arm in arm with the Palestinians and others demonstrating against Zionism.”
Global Marijuana March: According to Wikipedia, the “Global Marijuana March (GMM), also referred to as the Million Marijuana March (MMM), is an annual rally held at different locations around the world on the first Saturday in May.”
The Wikipedia article goes on to say it was first held in 1999, then tella me that “Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in over 1034 different cities in 85 nations and subnational areas.”
Legalise Cannabis March, Kennington to Brixton
The first march was in New York City, but although London was one of those 1034 cities it doesn’t get a mention. There have been various events in London over the years calling for legalisation of cannabis, but in more recent years these have mainly taken place on ‘420’, April 20th.
Supplies of something were on offer
The name ‘420’ came from a group of friends in San Rafael, California, who called themselves the Waldos. They had agreed to meet after school one day at 4.20pm to search for an abandoned cannabis farm, using the term ‘420’ as shorthand for their (unsuccessful) quest. After this they carried on using ‘420’ as a coded way to talk about marijuana particularly when teachers and parents were around.
The Waldos were fans of The Grateful Dead, very much a part of the counterculture and associated with cannabis use, and the term spread to other fans of this Californian rock group and on worldwide.
I only wrote a short paragraph on the event in 2002:
“Saturday 4 May was some kind of World Cannabis Day, and those who could still stand made it down to Kennington and marched down through Stockwell & Brixton to Brockwell Park, were we we danced, ate, drank and did all the kind of things people do at festies.“
Legalise Cannabis Festival, Brockwell Park, Herne Hill
My experience of cannabis remained only through from thick secondhand smoke as I wandered through the event taking black and white and colour pictures. There are a few more black and whites on My London Diary.
