{"id":13763,"date":"2022-08-27T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=13763"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:33:55","slug":"chariot-festival-olympic-site-and-notting-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=13763","title":{"rendered":"Chariot Festival, Olympic Site and Notting Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0549.jpg\" alt=\"Chariot Festival, Olympic Site and Notting Hill\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chariot Festival, Olympic Site and Notting Hill<\/strong>. Sunday 27th August 2006, sixteen years ago was a busy day for me, travelling to East Ham to photograph a colourful Hindu festival, then on to Stratford for a short walk along the High Street and Bow Back Rivers, before taking the underground and ending up on Ladbroke Grove for the Children&#8217;s Day of the Notting Hill Carnival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was part of a very full few days for me, having got back to London after a couple of weeks in Paris and a few days with family in Beeston. Friday I&#8217;d put my folding bike on the train to Greenhithe and spent a day cycling around there and Swanscombe, Saturday I&#8217;d walked around 12 miles on the London Loop and after the events here on Monday I&#8217;d returned to Notting Hill for the carnival itself, after which I needed a few days rest. The text here is taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/aug.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My London Diary<\/a> &#8211; with a few corrections, appropriate capitalisation and some additional comments. There are some more details in the captions on the picture pages of these events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sri Mahalakshmi Temple Chariot Festival &#8211; East Ham<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0079.jpg\" alt=\"Chariot Festival, Olympic Site and Notting Hill\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday morning found me in East Ham, where the Hindu Sri Mahalakshmi Temple was holding its chariot festival. It was a colourful and friendly event, but I soon felt I&#8217;d taken enough pictures and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s hard to show the flames when the offerings of food are made to the god, and difficult to catch the colour of the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/aug27-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lea Navigation and Bow Back Rivers &#8211; Stratford<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On my way back from East Ham I stopped off at Bromley-by-Bow and walked up to Stratford High Street and along the rivers and channels there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parts were so thickly covered with bright green growth that they looked as if I could have walked along them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was another site demolished on the high street, with new housing starting to go up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/aug27-03.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notting Hill Carnival &#8211; Childrens Day &#8211; Notting Hill<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the big event of August is always Notting Hill Carnival, and I was there both on the Sunday afternoon for Childrens&#8217; Day and for the main event on the Monday, shooting both black and white film and colour digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0596.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[I noted back in 2006 that when I would get round to processing the black and white film is &#8220;anyone&#8217;s guess&#8221;. I think it was around ten years later that I finally admitted I wasn&#8217;t going to develop the chromogenic black and white films myself and the chemicals were probably past their best and I sent them for commercial processing. Though by then I wasn&#8217;t sure whether I had taken them in 2006 or 2007. But back to my 2006 post.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m getting older, but I didn&#8217;t get the same buzz from this year&#8217;s event as in previous years, though most of the same things seemed to be around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps this was the problem; most of them did seem to be the same, two years on from when I last photographed the event. Last year, 2005, I tried to go, dragging myself to the station with a knee injury, but the pain was too much to continue. This year my knee held out, though I was glad to sink into a seat on the Underground at Latimer Road at the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/27\/060827_d0604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t take many colour pictures on Children&#8217;s Day, and most weren&#8217;t of children, and I think I probably didn&#8217;t stay long, but there are many more on the pages which follow on from there taken the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/08\/aug27-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chariot Festival, Olympic Site and Notting Hill. 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