Peterloo - 194th anniversary, part two
Today was the second half of this year's Peterloo commemorations, and I'd bought a new camera after the fiasco of the old one breaking down on Friday and preventing me from getting any photos of Maxine Peake reading the names of the dead and laying a wreath. So there are photos this time.
As in the previous couple of years, I walked in from Didsbury, which takes about an hour and a half - except that I had to do it in an hour and twenty minutes, as I left a little late and was trying to arrive in time to meet the marchers from Oldham and Middleton at one o'clock on the site of the massacre.
I got there just before one to find them already in occupation of Petersfield.
Then we marched through the streets to the People's History Museum.
There we joined the rest of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign group, who were running a Design Day Workshop (with tame artists).
The idea was to gather ideas on what the permanent memorial promised by the council might look like, and to get votes on them. Obviously the artist to be appointed later in the year will have her/his own plans, but we've been told they'll consult with us, so the hope is that some of the suggestions might be useful in sparking off ideas for the official design.
Punters viewing the designs we stuck up on the wall.
Afterwards there was another performance of Geoff Higginbottom's Peterloo folk song cycle, Soldiers on the Rampage.
Oh, though I'm still waiting for someone to send me photos of Maxine Peake reading names and laying the wreath, I have been given this photo of the Peterloo Memorial Campaigners with her (she's the one in glasses crouching on the right).
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As in the previous couple of years, I walked in from Didsbury, which takes about an hour and a half - except that I had to do it in an hour and twenty minutes, as I left a little late and was trying to arrive in time to meet the marchers from Oldham and Middleton at one o'clock on the site of the massacre.
I got there just before one to find them already in occupation of Petersfield.
Then we marched through the streets to the People's History Museum.
There we joined the rest of the Peterloo Memorial Campaign group, who were running a Design Day Workshop (with tame artists).
The idea was to gather ideas on what the permanent memorial promised by the council might look like, and to get votes on them. Obviously the artist to be appointed later in the year will have her/his own plans, but we've been told they'll consult with us, so the hope is that some of the suggestions might be useful in sparking off ideas for the official design.
Punters viewing the designs we stuck up on the wall.
Afterwards there was another performance of Geoff Higginbottom's Peterloo folk song cycle, Soldiers on the Rampage.
Oh, though I'm still waiting for someone to send me photos of Maxine Peake reading names and laying the wreath, I have been given this photo of the Peterloo Memorial Campaigners with her (she's the one in glasses crouching on the right).
Also posted on Dreamwidth, with
comments.