Now I am the first to say that I have taken better pictures, but this one from a demonstration in the early 1980s does capture the moment.
I have no idea of the year or the route we took but back then I attended quite a few and with time they have blurred together.
I vaguely remember that the sight of the young people waving the banner looked similar to that iconic image of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
Of course there the similarity ends.
It will have been a Sunday and the journey down by chartered train would have meandered across the country and will have added an hour at least to the trip.
I am fairly confident that the second picture dates from a different demonstration but I can’t be sure.
And while Trafalgar Square was the final destination for some of those marches I know also that we ended up in Hyde Park for others.
Location; London
Pictures; of a demonstration, circa 1980s, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
I vaguely remember that the sight of the young people waving the banner looked similar to that iconic image of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
Of course there the similarity ends.
It will have been a Sunday and the journey down by chartered train would have meandered across the country and will have added an hour at least to the trip.
And while Trafalgar Square was the final destination for some of those marches I know also that we ended up in Hyde Park for others.
Location; London
Pictures; of a demonstration, circa 1980s, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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