{"id":19235,"date":"2026-08-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=19235"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:38:25","slug":"camden-lock-south-bank-soul-in-the-city-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=19235","title":{"rendered":"Camden Lock, South Bank & Soul in the City – 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Camden Lock, South Bank & Soul in the City<\/strong>: I didn’t write much about my day on Saturday 7th August 2004 – and I’ll reproduce it in full at the end of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t then mention that I started the day in Camden taking half an hour wandering around Camden Lock before walking along, past a secret garden near Regents Park (and I can’t remember where that was) to Park Square East where I took a picture of the Diorama <\/a>“built in 1823 to show large, dramatized tableaux paintings as entertainment.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next I took the tube to the South Bank where at the National Theatre I found the Caesar Twins<\/a><\/em> swimming around in a goldfish bowl, but with apparently relatively few people paying much attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From there I went onto the beach beside the River Thames at Gabriel’s Wharf where people were relaxing and enjoying the warm weather. The tide was out revealing a remarkably wide area of sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Bernie Spain Gardens on the bank above a festival was taking place and I photographed a few Romanian musicians before walking back across the new Jubilee (Hungerford) bridge to Trafalgar Square – where my 2004 account below describes what was taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Saturday I spent wandering around London, mainly getting to things too early. I did manage to take a few pictures of a Romanian group performing at Bernie Spain Gardens, before leaving for Trafalgar Square which had been taken over for the final event of a two week ‘Soul In The City’ mission for young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Worship in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the end of two weeks of work and witness.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The fountains in the square were full of young people, mainly girls, waving in ecstasy to rather tame gospel music in a slickly managed event. As I was photographing a woman was praying out loud into my left ear, filling it with sycophantic nonsense, but otherwise there seemed to be little real fervour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went back to the Romanians, where at least there was Urquell Pilsner on sale (its advertising says ‘In the beginning there was darkness, then in 1842 we found the light<\/em>.)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The larger images are ones I took then but didn’t use in my original post. There are a few more pictures on My London Diary, beginning here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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