Completing the Jubilee Line - Kilburn to Neasden: Part 2

[tubewhore]

...so Willesden Green...having skipped back to adventures on the DLR in March, I return regular readers to my more recent travels last week to complete the last few stations on the Jubilee line.

First stop, the fabled Willesden Green...

Comments

[madamekat]

And how charming you look through it all!! Sorry you had that negative experience with the police. Sheesh...aren't they used to eccentrics by now??? It's the mundanes we have to worry about!!

[tubewhore]

exactly - I hardly look like a fundamentalist of any sort bent on destruction of life and property...unless you count a deep-seated desire to burn down Primark.

[ragnarok_2012]

You really look great in purple.

[poggs]

You really look great.

[tubewhore]

thank you - just wait till Greenford, birthplace of purple. I shall be dyeing hair suitable shade to celebrate Perkin's achievement in inventing, by accident, aniline dyes, and by extension industrial chemistry.

[ragnarok_2012]

But you'll still be on the wrong continent.

Looking forward to the photos.

[midnightxpress]

the terrorist have already succeed in changing something fundamental in our society.

hmm...you really think so? I don't see much evidence of this in day to day London life, but interested in your thoughts on the subject

[tubewhore]

...what I'm talkig about is an internalisation of concern, a seige mentality that being a good citzen means spying on one's fellows. This is more than the familiar 'keep an eye out for unattended luggage' stuff, and as with the recent press campaign, has become something much more active, with everyone policing everyone else, making you nervous of standing out

[midnightxpress]

Do you think people generally feel a siege mentality regarding the security aspects in their lives?

Totally agree that certain powers that be have used the AQ threat and 9/11 to try and limit our freedoms, both in UK and US. Has it reached the point where people's behaviour has been radically changed?

(and yeah we should do another picnic in a station)

[tubewhore]

it does disturb me deeply that the gov't have pushed through the Terrorist Bill and the ability to hold someone without charge or legal representation on upicion of various activities - that doesn't strike me as what I like to think of as 'British' - and the media just aren't fighting them on it. They might report that the HoL is kicking back, and challenging the gov't but that seems to be to about knocking Blair/Brown, not about reporting what is fundamental change to British law and due process.

...so yes, I do think people feel differently about safety than they did during the IRA bombing campaigns for example. I'm sure in a few years when we have some historical perspective on the two different terrorist threats to London there will be some very interesting thesis to draw, and the curent 'situation' has been used for some very ugly political gain that have far-reaching implications about populist dissent.

[rhythmaning]

I'm with you on the loss of our human rights: there is a fair degree of paranoia around.

Lovely pics of Dollis Hill! Not words I can imagine going together very often...

[hergunfight]

I just found your lj randomly when searching for stuff about Harlesden (where I live) on google! I've added you :) your adventure is amazing! I've lived in London all my life and love the tube system but of course I take it for granted!

Love the photos of dear old Willesden Green!

[tubewhore]

glad to have you here!