tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post4383956823965145997..comments2024-03-18T08:20:19.461+00:00Comments on Transpontine: Burning Poll Tax Bills, Brixton 1990Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-26406472462113494112015-10-21T16:51:54.280+00:002015-10-21T16:51:54.280+00:00Hi, please email me on radical.lambeth[a]gmail.com...Hi, please email me on radical.lambeth[a]gmail.com and we can arrange an interview, many thanks for the use of the photos!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13412480395821624963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-78460153204401664542015-10-18T15:39:27.733+00:002015-10-18T15:39:27.733+00:00Hi Simon, you're welcome to use the photos (wi...Hi Simon, you're welcome to use the photos (with link/credit). I lived and agitated in Lambeth from 1987 to 1994 so happy to speak to you about it, interesting and multi-faceted times. Yes there was a struggle against Thatcher, but there were also lots of competing views about how to do so. Hence at least three separate anti-poll tax groups!.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-69266946637199938122015-10-12T14:27:52.580+00:002015-10-12T14:27:52.580+00:00Hello everyone, I starting to do some research for...Hello everyone, I starting to do some research for a phd on the history of Lambeth from 1978-1992, I will mainly be looking at interviewing people who were around at the time but also collecting some images and archive material for an online blog that will chronicle the social and political struggles against Thatcher.<br /><br />I am interviewing a range of people at the time from elected councillors to trade unionists to local residents.<br /><br />Would it be possible to use these photos for my research? Also is anyone interested in an interview? <br /><br />Regards<br /><br />SimonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13412480395821624963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-65752411978891999542015-04-08T07:09:43.173+00:002015-04-08T07:09:43.173+00:00There is now a separate post about the March 1990 ...There is now a separate post about the March 1990 Brixton poll tax demo here: <a rel="nofollow">http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/violence-in-brixton-follows-poll-tax.html</a>.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-73842039373827340282014-02-08T14:52:02.323+00:002014-02-08T14:52:02.323+00:00Good photo Adrian, interesting times!Good photo Adrian, interesting times!.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-77601464872903284412014-02-08T12:15:27.668+00:002014-02-08T12:15:27.668+00:00http://www.flickr.com/photos/101416241@N06/1238271...http://www.flickr.com/photos/101416241@N06/12382711215/<br /><br />This is photo I took of the Brixton rioting, with the police car actually being turned over. I got this published on the front page of the later editions of the next day's Daily Express!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-67565453905064942502011-07-26T21:14:11.962+00:002011-07-26T21:14:11.962+00:00Thanks Elsa, yes I remember on that March demo wan...Thanks Elsa, yes I remember on that March demo wandering around the back streets of the market, Electric Avenue etc. I ended up going to the pub (The Railway) and missing the later conflict on Stockwell Road..https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-4279775975597093562011-07-26T00:11:53.106+00:002011-07-26T00:11:53.106+00:00I was at both events. The pictures show an event ...I was at both events. The pictures show an event which took place on a Saturday morning...i've also got fotos of it and was a speaker for Community Resistance...on that morning. The other one Pat described was early March, on a Wednesday night - i think - when the council was meeting to set the poll tax rate for Lambeth. Some mad guy appeared among the crowd and suddenly took over by shouting...'lets all march down to downing street' and everyone followed him down Brixton Road, blindly. Then he'd change his mind and start shouting to go somewhere else and again, everyone would follow...Because i'd never seen him before and found his behaviour erratic and wierdly dangerous i didn't follow the crown and stood back to watch. He directed the people back and forth and finally led them into the market where they were beaten up. I'll never forget that night...and have always been convinced this guy was an actual cop without a uniform trained to direct excited mobs into the mouths of the wolves. This was in fact what happened in Barcelona a month ago, where cops without uniforms were amongst the crowd to stir the crowd and get the violence going...elsanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-12336479318175960432011-06-16T21:42:10.964+00:002011-06-16T21:42:10.964+00:00Hi Pat, I think the protest you are referring too ...Hi Pat, I think the protest you are referring too was not actually the one shown in these pictures but another one that took place outside the Town Hall in March 1990 when the Council was setting the poll tax. It was larger and rowdier than this poll tax form burning action, and as you say ended up in riotous scenes by Stockwell Park Estate with a police car overturned among other things..https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-89229374733675952812011-06-16T20:24:55.902+00:002011-06-16T20:24:55.902+00:00I remember that day! After the gathering at the to...I remember that day! After the gathering at the town hall, which you can see in the top picture, everyone turned and walked down Brixton Road, through the traffic. It was a happy, positive, almost celebratory event. No trouble, or even any sense that there would be trouble ... until the walkers were directed down Stockwell Road, round the back of the Academy - and straight into a wall of riot police. Immediately, all hell let loose - I had no idea that people could actually just pull up paving stones with their bare hands. <br /><br />My boyfriend (now husband) and I legged it away from the trouble and towards home back up Brixton Road, which had now been closed to traffic by the police. Unbelievable how quickly they'd done that. And then, while we were walking as quickly as possible up the road, we heard this deafening - terrifying - sound behind us and, looking back, saw a line of police on horses who were stamping their hooves on the ground to make as much noise as possible. Oh yes, we felt threatened. That was a heavy day - and an exhilarating one, too. And Maggie didn't get her way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com