At five to twelve, the band in Skehans pub was belting out a Waterboys cover, while the sound of a gospel choir drifted out from the House of Bread church in Kitto Road.
We headed up to the top of Telegraph Hill park where a couple of hundred people saw in the New Year with bubbly and fireworks, not to mention a fine view of other people's fireworks going off all over London. People have been gathering there every year since Millennium Eve (although a few months earlier, in August 1999, lots of us watched the solar eclipse there). The event isn't advertised or organised - people just seem to gravitate towards the highest local point, and why not?
What did you get up to?
The Atkins Siblings and the Guards Chapel Tragedy: Remembering the Largest
V1 Bombing Loss of Life, 18th June 1944
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*Amy Atkins, born 17 April 1871 Woman Clark-Board of Education aged 73 *
*Philip Atkins 17 Feb 1874. Retired Bank Clark, Bank of England, aged 70*
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