On Wednesday I completed a long standing political task which means that I have more time and headspace to do other things such as post a little more. Also, to continue with Gill on our attempt to walk around London along the 78 mile Capital…Read more…
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: Be the light in the darkness
This morning I attended Newham Council’s virtual event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. There was a very moving testimony by Holocaust survivors, Ann and Bob Kirk BEM. They described their separate childhood experiences of the pre war Nazi terror on Jew…Read more…
Kindertransport Kids – London Liverpool Street Station 1938 and Calais 2016
This morning I was on my way to a seminar on opposing the new Housing & Planning Act.
I stopped off in London Liverpool Street station to take this photo of the statute (by the ticket office) in honour of the thousands of unaccompanied …Read more…
The Kindertransport “hero” Sir Nicholas Winton RIP
On the way back home on Saturday from the UNISON Labour Link forum in Manchester, I went through London Liverpool Street Railway station.
At the station I passed the statues of the “Kindertransport” children who were rescued from Nazi Europe and arriv…Read more…