{"id":18789,"date":"2026-04-15T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=18789"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:28:32","slug":"vaisakhi-procession-slough-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=18789","title":{"rendered":"Vaisakhi Procession, Slough 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vaisakhi Procession, Slough<\/strong>: On Sunday 15 April, 2007 I decided at the last minute to rush to Slough, picked up my rum\u0101l and arrived just in time to photograph the Vaisakhi Procession as it left the Gurdwara. Two years later in 2009 I returned and was able to cover it more thoroughly and you can see the results on My London Diary<\/a> – but in this post I’ll stay with the pictures and text from 2007. As usual I’ve made the text easier to read, correcting the capitalisation and typos etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaisakhi in Slough<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Slough, Berkshire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vaisakhi<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’d hoped to relax a bit on Sunday, have a day off from working with a camera, catch up with things. But Linda heard something on the radio about Vaisakhi in Slough, so I looked on the web, found the procession started at 10.30 and jumped on my ancient bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vaisakhi<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By then it was 10.15am, and according to the AA, the 9.5 miles should have taken me 27 minutes by car (and you could probably add a bit for parking etc onto that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vaisakhi<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So 40 minutes wasn’t too bad going, and I arrived just before the procession started to move off, just before 11.00am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vaisakhi<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By the time I left two hours later, the procession carrying the Sikh holy scriptures and led as always by Khalsa carrying flags and swords was just around the corner a couple of hundred yards away in Shaggy Calf Lane (though it had taken a rather longer route than me to get there.) And as well as photographing the event and many of those taking part, I’d also had a very enjoyable free lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slough, Colnbrook & Horton<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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I made my way home rather more slowly. One of the great advantages of travelling by bike is that you can stop exactly where you like to take photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As well as a few buildings in Slough, and what remains of a landmark garage at the west end of the Colnbrook Bypass (now sold and doubtless to be redeveloped) I spent some time in Horton, which in my youth really was a country village, and still retains some of that feeling, before returning to Staines via Wraysbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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