Hands off Hartismere
Save Hartismere: a Hospital Closure Protest, Eye, Suffolk - 17th September 2005
The Diss Express proves that it can sometimes get news in before it happens by announcing a demonstration in Eye, starting outside Hartismere Hospital on Castleton Way and winding through the centre of Eye to the Town Hall. The turnout's quite impressive and includes old chum and former BSCC member Denny, as well as local MP Michael Lord and a few-hundred others. The protest is over the closure of Hartismere Hospital, which has been on the cards for ages. Part of the frustration is perhaps not so much that the building itself is being sold off but that if it is, there's nothing to replace it and no other hospitals within a 23-mile radius. Anyway, it's a good-natured demonstration, which doesn't tax the assembled police presence too much, although the town centre is closed off for 10 minutes.
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A jester with 'We love you Hartismere'
Denny shows off her placard
Milling around
The Mayor gets interviewed
Denny's chatting away
The Women's Institute banner
The crowds build up
Silent protest
The Rozzers' spy-cam car keeps watch
MP Sir Michael Lord
What care in the community?
A Gislingham Silver Band cornet player
Julian from the GSB chats to the organiser
A big banner is unfurled
The organiser kicks things off with a loud-hailer
The Gislingham Silver Band leads the march off
The crowd leaves the hospital
The march makes its way down Castleton Way
A small dog leads the way
Denny holds her placard aloft
Turning out onto Victoria Hill
The organiser with a megaphone
Terry leads the Gislingham Silver Band
Streaming past the crinkle-crankle wall
The Gislingham Silver Band provides marching music
Into Eye's town centre
A couple of girls dance along from their window
The GSB on Lambseth Street
The march heads round the back of the town hall
The crowd piles in to the town hall
Andy P - special Rozzer
The packed hall waits for things to kick off
The press, and the Diss Express photographer
Michael Lord prepares to speak
Mr. Incognito - The Man's not gonna spy on him
A pause
Some applause
Next question please...
The crowd is held in rapt attention
Michael Lord communicates via loud-hailer
More applause from Cyril Hammond
A girl looks up
The town hall crowd
A TV interview occurs
A placard is waved as Michael Lord is on telly
More interviewing from a Hartismere pupil
The bull-horn's work is done
Denny with an old geezer
The speaking is over
A Cub reporter takes notes
The attractive frontage of Hartismere Hospital
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Hands off Hartismere
Hands off Hartismere
A jester with 'We love you Hartismere'
Denny shows off her placard
Milling around
The Mayor gets interviewed
Denny's chatting away
The Women's Institute banner
The crowds build up
Silent protest
The Rozzers' spy-cam car keeps watch
MP Sir Michael Lord
What care in the community?
A Gislingham Silver Band cornet player
Julian from the GSB chats to the organiser
A big banner is unfurled
The organiser kicks things off with a loud-hailer
The Gislingham Silver Band leads the march off
The crowd leaves the hospital
The march makes its way down Castleton Way
A small dog leads the way
Denny holds her placard aloft
Turning out onto Victoria Hill
The organiser with a megaphone
Terry leads the Gislingham Silver Band
Streaming past the crinkle-crankle wall
The Gislingham Silver Band provides marching music
Into Eye's town centre
A couple of girls dance along from their window
The GSB on Lambseth Street
The march heads round the back of the town hall
The crowd piles in to the town hall
Andy P - special Rozzer
The packed hall waits for things to kick off
The press, and the Diss Express photographer
Michael Lord prepares to speak
Mr. Incognito - The Man's not gonna spy on him
A pause
Some applause
Next question please...
The crowd is held in rapt attention
Michael Lord communicates via loud-hailer
More applause from Cyril Hammond
A girl looks up
The town hall crowd
A TV interview occurs
A placard is waved as Michael Lord is on telly
More interviewing from a Hartismere pupil
The bull-horn's work is done
Denny with an old geezer
The speaking is over
A Cub reporter takes notes
The attractive frontage of Hartismere Hospital