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Return to Hull – 2017

Return to Hull: Monday 20th February 2017 was the last day of a short visit to Hull, the city where my wife was born and grew up, and where I made my first sustained photographic project.

Return to Hull - 2017
Scott St Bridge and the River Hull

As I wrote in 2017, “I was trying to visit as many of the locations where I had photographed back in the 1970s and 80s for the show and the book ‘Still Occupied – A View of Hull’ and which I’m currently putting on the ‘Hull Photos’ web site, a day at a time throughout Hull’s year as UK City of Culture.“

You can still see those photographs on my Hull Photos site, though there are now larger versions and more pictures in my Flickr albums – links at the end of this post.

In 2017 didn’t want to do a straightforward “then and now“. My earlier pictures were not simple topography but a more personal view of the city, and both it and I had changed in the 45 or more years and I was determined to look at things differently – and with different photographic parameters.

While I had then photographed mainly in black and white and with only a moderately wide 35mm shift lens, in 2017 all of my pictures were in colour and my main interest was in the much wider scope of a roughly 140 degree panorama rendered with a cylindrical perspective which I had been using for some years in my personal urban landscape projects.

I’ll post here under the various headings in my 2017 posts for the day on My London Diary. Here I’ll just post pictures but you can read much more on the links to that site I give for each section.

Gipsyville

Return to Hull - 2017
Return to Hull - 2017
Dorset St and the former Cawoods site – they and the fish moved to Grimsby
Return to Hull - 2017

Text and more pictures at Gipsyville.

Hessle Rd

Return to Hull - 2017
Haunted Factory, West Dock Ave

Although I took quite a few pictures I didn’t stop to make any panoramic images in this area.

Text and more pictures at Hessle Rd.

St Andrew’s Dock

Return to Hull - 2017
The footpath – now the Transpennine Way – used to cross the dock gates but there was now a fence on the other side

Text and more pictures at St Andrew’s Dock.

Ropery St & St Mark’s Square

St James St / St Marks Square
English St

Text and more pictures at Ropery St & St Mark’s Square.

City Centre & Beverley Rd

Holy Trinity Burial Ground
Ferensway
Baker St

Text and more pictures at  City Centre & Beverley Rd.

Sculcoates & River Hull

Scott Street Bridge and River Hull
Caroline St/Cannon St

Text and more pictures at Sculcoates & River Hull.

We went on to visit some exhibitions and it was soon time for dinner, but our day had not ended and afterwards we walked into the Old Town and to the Humber Street Gallery where I took this picture looking over the rooftops to Holy Trinity.

Many of my older pictures from Hull are now in two of my albums on Flickr:

Hull Black and white
Hull Colour 1972-2000

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Antifa Remember Carlos, TOTAL, Musharraf & More – 2007

Antifa Remember Carlos, TOTAL, Musharraf & More: I spent Saturday November 24th 2007 travelling around London to photograph protests. On the South Bank, anarchists were remembering Carlos Presente killed by fascists in Madrid earlier in the month, protests were taking place at TOTAL garages across the country for their support for the repressive Burmese regime – and I went to several of those in London. Pakistanis protested at Downing Street against President Musharraf and there were a number of protests in Parliament Square. Below are a few of the pictures and the text I wrote in 2007, with links to more images.

Antifa Remember Carlos Presente

Jubilee Gardens

Antifa Remember Carlos, TOTAL, Musharraf & More
A comrade speaks at the memorial rally

Carlos Presente was only 16, but was already active in opposing fascism in his native Spain. Along with other antifascists, he had stood on the street to defend one of Madrid’s multiracial working class areas when Nazis held an demonstration against immigrants.

Antifa Remember Carlos, TOTAL, Musharraf & More

After the demonstration on 11th November, 2007, Carlos and a comrade were attacked and stabbed while waiting on an underground platform by one of the fascists who had been demonstrating. The hunting knife went through his heart and he bled to death.

Antifa Remember Carlos, TOTAL, Musharraf & More

The Anarchist Federation – IFA and Antifa Britain held a short memorial rally to honour Carlos. Fittingly it was at the memorial for those who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s in London’s Jubilee Gardens.

More pictures

TOTAL Day of Action – London

Kilburn, Kensal Green & Baker St

Antifa Remember Carlos, TOTAL, Musharraf & More
TOTAL disgrace. Free Burma. Protestors stage a ‘die-in’ at Baker St.

The French oil company, TOTAL, is the fourth largest oil company in the world, and the largest supporter of the Burmese military regime. Although the media hardly noticed the country before the recent outrages against monks, it has long been one of the most brutal dictatorships around.

Antifa Remember Carlos, TOTAL, Musharraf & More
Kilburn

It holds over 1300 political prisoners, many subject to routine torture, makes widespread systematic use of forced labour and uses rape as a deliberate policy against women from some of its ethnic minorities.

Kensal Green

It also has more child soldiers than any other country and spends roughly half the government budget on the military – and much of that budget derives from TOTAL.

Saturday saw demonstrations across the country against TOTAL garages, urging motorists not to support the repression in Burma by buying from TOTAL. There were at least 11 demonstrations in London, and I went to photograph at three of them, in Kilburn, at Kensal Green and [after photographing other protests below in this post] at Baker Street.

It wasn’t surprising, given the widespread nature of the action that numbers at some garages were small. I left Baker St after an hour – half-way through the demonstration, and more people turned up after I’d gone.

More pictures

Pakistanis Protest at Commonwealth Suspension

Downing St, Whitehall

In full voice opposite Downing St

I don’t know what fraction of Britain’s Pakistani population supports President Musharraf. Polls earlier in the year in Pakistan showed that almost two thirds of the population thought he should stand down. Of course there are some here who owe their positions to him, and certainly others who support him.

So it was hardly surprising to find a couple of hundred protesters in Whitehall on Saturday afternoon opposite Downing Street following the decision on Friday by a committee of Commonwealth foreign ministers to suspend Pakistan because Musharraf had imposed emergency rule – and then sacked the judges who were about to rule his proposed next term as President unlawful.

More pictures

Peace Strike and other happenings

Westminster

Problems with the amplification didn’t prevent the24 hour picket starting

Cold weather is not kind to batteries, and the overnight frost killed those used for the amplification in Parliament Square, so although some supporters had turned up for the ‘Peace Strike’ the planned starting rally couldn’t take place.

Part of Brian Haw’s display
Demonstrators in Parliament Square to mark 500 days in captivity for the two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah led Israel to attack Lebanon.

A few more pictures

[As darkness fell I made my way to my final protest of the day at the Baker St TOTAL garage.]

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