Tracks

East from Sudbury Hill

Sudbury Hill station

Footbridge

West view

View from the footbridge

Greenford Road

250 jobs at risk in Kodak factory in Harrow

Coming Soon - Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Music. Not the other type of swinging. Or both perhaps. NW2?

‪#‎zadiesmith‬ ‪#‎swingtime‬

"Look, just look, the Vistula is near"

Russian Prints from World War 1

"This exhibition features Russian prints made during the First World War and its aftermath. Taking its title from an early propaganda print produced by Kazimir Malevich, the suprematist painter, and revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the show presents work produced as part of a propaganda effort from the Tsarist war mobilisation in 1914 through to the Bolshevik era and the Civil War. ..." To read on and for full details see
http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/…/look-just-look-the-v…/.

At the London Print Gallery, Harrow Road, April 8th to May 7th

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The Institute "in liquidation" - Summer classes in doubt

The Institute in LiquidationThe Institute, which has been providing excellent classes for adults and young people at...

Posted by The Willesden Herald on Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Willesden connection to the Panama Papers scandal

BBC Panorama "Tax Havens of the Rich and Powerful Exposed", suggests that the regeneration of the local Willesden hospital was financed in part by one Chris Hudson who used a Panama-registered company called the Yarrow Foundation. One of the leaked Mossack Fonsaca documents names Chris Hudson as the principal beneficiary. Other documents list transfers of money from Yarrow Foundation to Chris Hudson's London bank account.

Flyer: "A PFI/Private Partnership - Private Sector Partner - Working With Our Partners For A Healthier Future" - Willesden Herald photo from 2003

The Brent NHS local hospital, now called The Willesden Centre for Health and Care, was built under the then Labour government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI), a scheme promoted by Chancellor Gordon Brown. This is the same PFI that has saddled hospital trusts throughout the country with massive debts, effectively mortgages they cannot afford to repay.

To add insult to the injury of PFI, it now appears that money is being paid into offshore companies, which look like they are designed to avoid paying tax on profits from the UK. Is it necessary to remind anyone that the NHS is supported by tax paid in the UK, and that it is crippled by debts it now has to pay to companies registered offshore, who pay no tax here?

The more the parasite thrives, the more the host declines.

Willesden Herald "Willesden Centre for Health & Care" photo sequence 2009 - 1

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Link: BBC Panorama "Tax Havens of the Rich and Powerful Exposed"

President Trump: Deportations to Begin

President Trump: Deportations to BeginThe Willesden Herald's take: Eleven million people targeted for detention and...

Posted by The Willesden Herald on Sunday, 10 April 2016

Let's build a wall around Donald Trump

Let's Build a Wall Around Donald Trump"We're going to build a wall around Donald Trump. And you know who's going to...

Posted by The Willesden Herald on Saturday, 2 April 2016

This week

Mismatch

If your cups don't chase each other round the cup tree,
I will arrange them so they do.
But you may not be the one for me,
And I may not be the one for you.

--
Stephen Moran

Destruction of trackside environment on the Chiltern Line

Before (east - summer)

Before (east - autumn)

Before (east - winter)

After (east - 23 March 2016)

Before (west - autumn)

After (west 23 March 2016)

Before and after pictures this week of the trackside near Sudbury Hill Harrow. Is this justfied, in any way, let alone in nesting season?

Cutting trees in the nesting season?

Chiltern Line

Tree cutting has been in progress for more than a week around this area of the Chiltern Line west of Sudbury Hill Harrow. They appear to be cutting throughout the wooded area alongside the track, not just adjacent to the track. Isn't this the nesting season? Is this right?

Faded Faded

Work-in-progress

Teddy on the line

Central Line

Tottenham Court Road station

Friday fish & chips

Panos at The Catch, Greenford Road, opposite Sudbury Hill station

A good menu, friendly staff and, by the way, an excellent example of the signwriter's art

Harry Lemon's Malta

Valetta city walls

Maltese parliament building, designed by Renzo Piano

Saluting battery, Grand Harbour, Valetta

View towards Valetta from the the city walls of Mdina, the old capital

City gate of Mdina

Dingli cliffs

Street fountains in Sliema

Mural in Sliema

Valetta

Fountain in Upper Barrakka Gardens, Valetta

Lane in Mdina

Local beer

Water font in Sliema

Marsaxlokk Harbour Sunday market

Jumping rockfish in the Sunday fish market, Marsaxlokk

Marsaxlokk Sunday market

Marsaxlokk Harbour

St Paul's Grotto
This is the Roman cave jail where St Paul and St Luke were held prisoner by the Roman consul Publius, subsequently converted, after they were shipwrecked en route to Rome from Damascus in 60 A.D. It's under St Paul's Cathedral, Mdina. 

Horse racing (trotting) at Marsa racecourse, Malta Racing Club

The course is dampened and raked between each race.

We sent Harry Lemon to Malta to report for the Willy on this Mediterranean island, and what does he do? Sends us hundreds of pictures and no text. I told him, for God's sake Harry, select a few of them and add captions. Don't be making us like captive audiences in the old days, having to sit through hundreds of Uncle Harry's holiday slides. (Ed.)