Karen on the coach, on the way to the demo
Uni: No Chance Fowler! A student Demonstration, London - 26th February 1986
Nosher was not much of a political animal at Uni, but being the official Students' Union photographer meant covering several demos. This one was against something to do with grants and benefits and was aimed squarely at Normal Fowler, Mrs Thatcher's Education Secretary at the time (or maybe still at Health and Social Security). It included the memorable chant 'Nothing stinks Fowler than Norman!', and included a brief diversion to the top of a tower block to photograph the demo as it paused at some park - possibly Kennington Park - in South London for a bit of a political rally. It was quite groovy, really: getting interviewed by London radio, the massed barricades of police on Embankment and the coach trip on the way home, desperately listening to the radio to hear if we'd changed the world. However, it was also seriously cold - at one point the tail of the film actually snapped off as it was being taken out of the camera.
next album: Uni: Canoe Society RAG Raft Madness, Plymouth Sound - 1st March 1986
previous album: Uni: The PPSU "Jazz" RAG Review and Charity Auction, Plymouth, Devon - 19th February 1986
Some random beer drinking somewhere
A dude with a guitar near Waterloo
Plymouth Students, indeed
Grant holds up the PPSU banner
Contra-jour of marching students
A Father Christmas gets in on the act
More Plymouth Poly banner waving
Simon Haddon does his banner-waving duty
Plymouth Polytechnic Labour Students are out
Fight Fowler - Stop the Cuts
A policewoman accompanies the crowd
A bloke dressed as a rabbit
The demo passes by Partnership House on Waterloo Road
Another street is blocked off by the police
Trevelyan College, Durham
No Chance Fowler!
More 'Fight Fowler, Stop the Cuts' placards
Some of Nosher's chums, from the Psychology massive
Grant Thornton swigs from a can of Budweiser
More students stream in to the park
A mass of students attend a rally
In what is possibly Kennington Park
Students on Nelson's Column, with fake (?) police helmets
Police outside a shop on Trafalgar Square
Nelson's Column
Students stake out the bottom of Nelson's Column
Students and pigeons
Sam Kennedy and Grant Thornton (left) fight the power
Occupying the Trafalgar lions
Police and students mill around at Temple Place
A line of police blocks of Embankment
Opposite the Festival Hall
The riot vans are out
Massed police at Temple Place, on the Embankment
There's something of a sit-in taking place
A sit-in on the Plymouth Poly Students' Union banner
Alison and Sam at Charing Cross tube station
Nosher and Sam at Charing Cross underground
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Karen on the coach, on the way to the demo
Karen on the coach, on the way to the demo
Some random beer drinking somewhere
A dude with a guitar near Waterloo
Plymouth Students, indeed
Grant holds up the PPSU banner
Contra-jour of marching students
A Father Christmas gets in on the act
More Plymouth Poly banner waving
Simon Haddon does his banner-waving duty
Plymouth Polytechnic Labour Students are out
Fight Fowler - Stop the Cuts
A policewoman accompanies the crowd
A bloke dressed as a rabbit
The demo passes by Partnership House on Waterloo Road
Another street is blocked off by the police
Trevelyan College, Durham
No Chance Fowler!
More 'Fight Fowler, Stop the Cuts' placards
Some of Nosher's chums, from the Psychology massive
Grant Thornton swigs from a can of Budweiser
More students stream in to the park
A mass of students attend a rally
In what is possibly Kennington Park
Students on Nelson's Column, with fake (?) police helmets
Police outside a shop on Trafalgar Square
Nelson's Column
Students stake out the bottom of Nelson's Column
Students and pigeons
Sam Kennedy and Grant Thornton (left) fight the power
Occupying the Trafalgar lions
Police and students mill around at Temple Place
A line of police blocks of Embankment
Opposite the Festival Hall
The riot vans are out
Massed police at Temple Place, on the Embankment
There's something of a sit-in taking place
A sit-in on the Plymouth Poly Students' Union banner
Alison and Sam at Charing Cross tube station
Nosher and Sam at Charing Cross underground