{"id":17134,"date":"2025-02-20T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17134"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:14:20","slug":"ellen-macarthur-brian-haw-ashura-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17134","title":{"rendered":"Ellen MacArthur, Brian Haw & Ashura – 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ellen MacArthur, Brian Haw & Ashura<\/strong>. On 20th February 2005 I froze on the riverside in Bermondsey waiting for Ellen MacArthur’s catamaran<\/a> to come up-river to Tower Bridge after her 71 day voyage had made her the fastest solo sailor to sail around the world. Five years later “she set up the Foundation in her name to accelerate the transition to a circular economy<\/em>“. I didn’t get any very good pictures as I was far to far away as she raised here arm to acknowledge the crowd that had gathered to welcome her – I needed a much longer telephoto than I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afterwards I took a little walk around the Bermondsey riverside before making my way back to Parliament Square where I took a pictures of the display there by Brian Haw’s Peace Campaign, now joined by promotional flags for the 2012 Olympic bid. There was more of this in Trafalgar Square too, where I dropped in briefly to see some of our pictures and warm up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally at Marble Arch I photographed the start of the Ashura procession by Shi’ite Muslims. I didn’t stay too long as I was still cold and I was keen to get home and warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here – with the usual minor corrections – is the piece I wrote in 2005 to go with the pictures on My London Diary<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday was another bitter day, and I froze on Butlers Wharf waiting to see Ellen MacArthur aboard her catamaran as it was driven up to Tower Bridge and back from Greenwich, disappointingly not a sail in sight. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ellen MacArthur is just visible, arm upraised in the centre of the picture<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The crowds were not huge, but respectable, but like me, few could be bothered to go to Greenwich. The various press boats buzzing round the catamaran added a little interest, but made me glad I wasn’t on one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I was more interested in taking some pictures along the riverside<\/a>, then took the tube to Westminster to call in on Brian Haw, still in Parliament Square since 1st June 2001, with the government now cooking up a personal law against him. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The signs on the square are no augmented by a line of mute London 2012 flags, and along in Trafalgar Square (on my route to the National Gallery) was a giant tent and Olympian figure. Nobody can accuse London 2012 of not spending money on promoting their cause.
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Shi’ite Muslims in London were celebrating the stand of the grandson of the Prophet, Imam Hussain, who died a glorious martyr along with his small band of supporters at Karbala in Iraq, choosing death rather than dishonour, in the year 680. Ashura represents a key point of difference between Sunni and Shi’a traditions and Saddam Hussein rigidly prevented its observance in Iraq during his years in power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
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