Kay Jordan as solo painter contributing her skills for the defence of the community in the East End of London!

0705 Hrs GMT
London
Thursday
06 January 2010
By © Muhammad Haque
On 6 April 2009 we heard the then latest ‘definitive’ ‘official information’ that the Crossrail hole we had been campaigning to stop was not going to be foisted on the East End and that the shaft planned and provided for by the ‘Crossrail Bill’ to be imposed on the Hanbury Street [off Brick Lane] was also to be scrapped!
So to mark that moment - we had been marking moments like that since March 2006, of which more later, separately] - I contacted Kay Jordan and got hold of Carole Swords, Turon Miah and a few other Brick Lane area people as well. This is one of the pictures that I took by the wall at the corner of Hanbury Street and Spital Street [going to Allen Gardens] London E1. Behind the campaign supporters and on the wall was the slogan NO XRAIL HOLE that Kay Jordan had sprayed during one evening of solo painting she had contributed a few years earlier!
Seen in the picture here are [Right to left] Hanbury Street small business coop member Turon Miah, Kay Jordan, Carole Swords and a familiar Brick Lane area community member Abdul Ali Rouf. Others also standing behind the Khoodeelaar! No to “Crossrail hole” Campaign banner cannot be seen in the picture.
[To be continued]