Instagram – John Beardsworth

Instagram

John Sep 6, 2018

For more than a year I have been posting new pictures to Instagram and odd videos on YouTube. Don’t take this as evidence of any burgeoning or coherent social media strategy, let alone of any ambition to become an “influencer” or whatever. It’s just proof that I am still alive, if anyone out there is wondering.

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Summer in the city The South Bank on Saturday whi

Summer in the city

The South Bank on Saturday while waiting for Little Amal.

#Children #Fountains #Play #Seasons #Spray #Summer #Water #Waterfeature #Waterfountain #southbank #southbankcentre #royalfestivalhall #london #fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Bacchus and his owner, Elephant and Castle, London

Bacchus and his owner, Elephant and Castle, London. Just someone I spotted while walking between bus stops, you can always tell if someone's up for a quick snap if asked nicely (the owner agreed too).

#dog #dogoftheday #dogsofinstagram #elephantandcastle #fujifilm #fujifilmxt2 #lightroom

Little Amal Little Amal the Syrian refugee on the

Little Amal

Little Amal the Syrian refugee on the South Bank to highlight child migration from war zones. Right now, she seems to be popping up all over the country. Odd that, as you'd have thought that sending a few people to Rwanda would deter anyone from wanting to come to this green and pleasant land.

#LittleAmal #london

Whitehall, Sunday Ukrainians protest against the

Whitehall, Sunday

Ukrainians protest against the Russian invasion and atrocities in their country. Such courage indeed.

At one point the protesters sang to wish Boris Johnson a happy birthday, and two held placards thanking him. Of course, one would like to think that any British Prime Minister would have offered strong support to Ukraine, would have handed back political donations with Russian connections, not enjoyed the hospitality with sons of KGB operatives, and would certainly have been more welcoming to refugees from the war. But let's be charitable, let them wish him happy birthday, and happy father's day too - I'm sure the Ukrainians are smart enough not to trust his words.

#ukraine #standwithukraine #ukraineunderattack #ukrainianlondon #johnsonout
#stopwar #protest #london #fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Yesterday’s walk across town should have passed

Yesterday’s walk across town should have passed briefly through Parliament Square just as the TUC’s “We deserve better” march arrived, yet turned into a surprisingly-frantic 70 minutes of photography crammed into the 500m between Parliament Square and Downing Street.
Already the trade union brass bands and the tail end of the march were coming down Whitehall, the sound and their banners reminding me of annual “walking days“ I saw in the 1970s around Atherton, Wigan, and Leigh.
Almost straight away, the @orange_order came marching down from Trafalgar Square towards the Cenotaph, evoking memories of a parade I saw back in 1980 when a work colleague was secretary of Warrington's Orange lodge.
As if photo opportunities were being delivered by a conveyor belt, before I had too much time for idle reflection... two giant turds appeared outside Downing Street. Back to 2022!

#Demonstration #Demonstrators #tradeunions #labour #ulster #orange #northernireland #johnsonout #turds #protest #politics #ukpolitics #Politics #Protesters #Streetscenes
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Meanwhile, across Whitehall, there's a protest by

Meanwhile, across Whitehall, there's a protest by the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (Turkey/Kurdistan) against Turkish government policies towards Kurds and Kurdistan

#Communism #Demonstration #Demonstrators #Kurdish #Marxism #Politics #Protest #Protesters #Streetscenes #fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Him again? A lonely but vocal and persistent Chr

Him again?

A lonely but vocal and persistent Christian evangelist passes doctors protesting outside Downing Street against fossil fuel funding.

#Climatechange #Demonstration #Demonstrators #ExtinctionRebellion #Politics #Protest #Protesters #Streetscenes #fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

148 & 211 A wonderful coincidence was pointed out

148 & 211

A wonderful coincidence was pointed out on Good Morning Britain - opposite Parliament is a bus stop with the numbers 211 and 148 matching yesterday's vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson.

But they didn't quite have the local knowledge to point out where these buses go.

The 211? Well, it ends up at Waterloo....

And the 148? It happens to head near to the Camberwell house that Johnson bought before he became PM and where the neighbours called in the police after a row.

The numbers don't lie, do they?

#johnsonout #protest #politics #ukpolitics
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

David Davis, Tory MP and former Boris Johnson supp

David Davis, Tory MP and former Boris Johnson supporter, being interviewed on College Green after the announcement of a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson.

Keeping the public out of College Green.

Protesters outside Downing Street, including a bloke using a homemade megaphone.

#johnsonout #protest #politics #ukpolitics
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Basing House You’ve seen the photos of flags ra

Basing House

You’ve seen the photos of flags raised in triumph over Iwo Jima and the Reichstag - here over the Jubilee weekend is the @thesealedknot taking Basing House by storm. Also, artillery with a Ukrainian flourish, sensitive pikemen, happy horsemen, slaughter and slumber.

One of the grandest palaces of the Tudor period, Basing was besieged three times in the English Civil War and was finally taken after being reduced to ruins by Cromwell’s artillery (a Parliamentary decree then let locals rob its bricks).

I wonder how many of those celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee have any idea that British monarchy has only survived because we compelled it - often by violence - to become diminished and ceremonial.

#englishcivilwar #history #historicalreenactment
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

St Paul’s Didn’t stay long around St Paul’s

St Paul’s
Didn’t stay long around St Paul’s this morning, little space to move, little that attracted my eye. I did spot a woman doing her best to see what was happening, two girls doing something painful with flags, and a defrocked Irish priest being kept at a safe distance.

#platinumjubilee #queensjubilee #queensplatinumjubilee #monarchy #celebration
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

The Red Arrows flying down the Mall shot, and then

The Red Arrows flying down the Mall shot, and then scenes from the crowd around St James’s Park

#platinumjubilee #queensjubilee #queensplatinumjubilee #monarchy #celebration
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Platinum Jubilee - 2/2 Away from the Mall From th

Platinum Jubilee - 2/2 Away from the Mall

From the 12.6 km I walked today, Victoria souvenir shop, Wrecked Section Is Back at a Victoria charity shop, Brixton market, Piccadilly, Soho

#platinumjubilee #monarchy
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Platinum Jubilee - The Mall Some bloke sticks his

Platinum Jubilee - The Mall
Some bloke sticks his hand in my way, two Royalist friends from Connecticut and Cornwall, and others camping in the Mall ahead of the Platinum Jubilee trooping of the colour.

#platinumjubilee
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

The King’s new clothes, Savile Row area The hom

The King’s new clothes, Savile Row area

The homeless bloke happened to pop up - I thought his shelter was empty and was just waiting for people to pass the poster.

#streetphotography #candidstreetphotography #London #fashion
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

After the publication of the Sue Gray report revea

After the publication of the Sue Gray report revealed fights and vomit at Downing Street parties during Covid lockdowns, security guards and cleaners of Whitehall offices protest against the government's "culture of disrespect" towards low paid workers.

#johnsonout #protest #politics #ukpolitics
#fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Chelsea in Bloom meets the Queen’s Platinum Jubi

Chelsea in Bloom meets the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Sloane Square and Sloane Street.
Peter Jones shop window through a cutout window, and a monumental head greeting people on their way to the Chelsea Flower Show.

#chelseainbloom #platinumjubilee #queensplatinumjubilee
#monarchy #london #fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom

Vyshyvanka Day Ukrainian Mothers' march in London

Vyshyvanka Day
Ukrainian Mothers' march in London from Marble Arch to the Russian embassy in Notting Hill Gate.

#ukraine #standwithukraine #ukraineunderattack #ukrainianlondon
#stopwar #protest #london #fujifilm #fujifilmuk #lightroom
#Vyshyvanka

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