PHIL MAXWELL

Down Hanbury Street Spitalfields (2)

August 6, 2016

Hanbury Street 2016

Hanbury Street 2007

Hanbury Street 2016

Hanbury Street 2007

Down Hanbury Street Spitalfields

August 5, 2016

I must have walked down Hanbury Street in Spitalfields many thousands of times. Like everywhere else in Spitalfields it has changed radically over the years. Here are some photographs (most of which have not been seen before) of one of the many streets in the East End that I love.

Hanbury Street 2016

Hanbury Street c.1988

Hanbury Street 2016

Hanbury Street c.1990

Hanbury Street 2016

Hanbury Street (Mela) c.1984

Hanbury Street c.1985

Corbyn Storms Liverpool

August 4, 2016

On a wet Monday evening they came from all over Merseyside. Thousands poured into the plateau outside St Georges Hall. People on zero hour contracts, teachers, cleaners, children, pensioners, the unemployed, doctors, builders, the disabled, professors, artists, lawyers, poets and trade unionists. They were the 99% who have been neglected for decades by the political elite of the country. They have been vilified by the press as delusional, members of a sect, hero worshipers, bullies and thugs. They came to hear the message that we need a different kind of politics; a government for for the people not the rich. I am proud of my City.

Jeremy Corbyn gives a live BBC interview before the Rally

An early arrival for the rally

At the front of the rally

Scousers for Corbyn

Liverpool Socialist Singers entertained the crowd before the start of the rally

Corbyn Rally Liverpool 2016

Many Trade Unions were represented at the rally

Corbyn Rally Liverpool 2016

The FBU provided a converted fire engine as the platform for the spaeakers

Corbyn Rally Liverpool 2016

What Jeremy Corbyn saw when he addressed the rally (photo Hazuan Hashim)

Jeremy Corbyn by the statue of Prince Albert shortly before he addressed the rally

A Labour Party Rally in St Georges hall c.1981

I am making a short film about the Liverpool rally with Hazuan Hashim (#Save Labour 3) It will be on social media in a few days time. You may also be interested in:

#Save Labour 1

#Save Labour 2

Thousands March For Corbyn In Merseyside

Hundreds Attend Corbyn Rally In Liverpool

Corbyn’s Secret Plans For Britain

Tony Blair: Guilty Of War Crimes?

Black Lives Matter In Liverpool

Liverpool Old & New

Caryl Gardens Liverpool 8

Cheshire Street Spitalfields

August 3, 2016

Over the years I have watched Cheshire Street in Spitalfields change dramatically. I remember walking there nearly forty years ago on Sunday mornings. Then it was full of second hand shops, market stalls and derelict buildings. Now it is a poor reflection of its gritty past. On Sundays you will now find plenty of cbut few second hand stalls. However, there are still a few intrepid street entrepreneurs who deposit an array of junk on the floor in the hope of a sale from a passer by.

A cobbled street off Cheshire Street 2016

Cheshire Street 2003

Cheshire Street c.1986

Cheshire Street 2016

Cheshire Street c.1985

A cobbled street off Cheshire Street 2016

Cheshire Street 2016

Cheshire Street c.1984

Cheshire Street 2016

Posters On The Wall

August 2, 2016

I’m fascinated by posters that are plastered up in Cities around the world. Not only are they a contemporary ‘popular cultural image’, once applied to a wall they start to develop a new life of their own; weather and the hands of people who object to them shift posters into a new visual realm. Here are a few that have caught my attention.