SCSH – Guru Nanak Gurpurabh Celebration in Heathrow’s Terminal 5 1st Post

Sikh Care Society Heathrow collects £ 367.24 for Sumatra’s Earthquake’s victims
£ 100 from T5 workers, £ 50 from family and the rest from ‘golak’
First Posting on the Kirtan Darbar remembering the birthday of Guru Nanak in 1469
All pictures will gradually be added to the Flickr set on Guru Nanak Gurpurabh ‘09 Southall & Heathrow
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Setting up the room
We had two rooms next to each other, one for the divan and one for the jora ghar (shoe house) and the langar (free Sikh kitchen)

Best Wishes on Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s Birthday !

Tall Singh hangs the decorations from the ceiling

 Sikh and Salvation Army Airport Chaplains
those high viz jackets play havock with my pictures

Much More to Follow !
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

London Overground – Camden to Brick Lane I

First post about going from Camden to Brick Lane
Next posts will include pictures of the new East London Line
All pictures will gradually be uploaded on my flickr account
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Camden Town, Northern Line
Due to having a morning and an afternoon meeting in Central London, with quite a bit of time in between, I had the opportunity to go on this excursion. I was in an office near London Bridge station and took the underground from there to Camden Town.

On the way to Camden Road Overground Station
From Camden Town I walked to Camden Road. The route was well signposted.

Camden Road Station 

Camden Road Station
Looking across the viaduct towards Caledonian Road & Barnsbury. The North London Line makes a dip towards the area where the Euston, St Pancras and King’s Cross rail terminals are.

Camden Road Station
New Overground train ready to take me to Dalston Kingsland

More to follow
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

I am going away for four days !

I am leaving early Tuesday (10/11) morning for Brussel by Eurostar and from there to St Truiden in the east of Belgium. On Wednesday 11/11 we will go to Ieper for the annual World War I armistice day commemoration. I will stay one more day in St Truiden to come back to London on Friday afternoon.

I have uploaded my column, an article on the drowning Maldives and the last pictorial on ‘from Bank to Cyprus’.

I have pictures of the London Underground, of the Heathrow Terminal 5 Guru Nanak celebration and of a visit to Coventry where together with my friend Balwant Singh I toured the local Gurdware. All these pictures will start appearing on my flickr account and a selection will make it to the blog.

Thanks for your ‘custom’
I hope to entertain and teach !

Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue 

 
Sardar Balwant Singh Coventry Wala
Sardar Harjinder Singh Southall Wala
at
Coventry Station

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DLR – From Bank to Cyprus V

This my fifth report on a trip from Bank to Cyprus
To  see all my DLR pictures go to :
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Canning Town
Looking to the junction where the trains from Stratford International will join the other two lines and where the Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal line each go their own way.

Canning Town
West bound DLR platform

Cyprus
Students going to UEL

Cyprus
Tower Hill Train

Cyprus
View from the east bound platform

The End
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

DLR – From Bank to Cyprus IV

This my fourth report on a trip from Bank to Cyprus
To  see all my DLR pictures go to :
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Westferry to Poplar
Beginning of the ’spaghetti junction’ between Westferry, West India Quay and Poplar

Poplar
Trains to/from Bank, Tower Gateway, Lewisham, Stratford, Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal serve this station

Poplar
Beckton train

Poplar

One more posting to follow
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

Southall Guru Nanak Nagar Kirtan 2009 VI

The sixth and last part of my pictorial report on the Southall Nagar Kirtan
All pictures are gradually uploaded to my flickr account
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South Road
Royal Mail, Methodist Church, more food stalls and sangat

 
South Road
Car, sangat and palki

South Road
Bhai Jagdeep Singh, Heathrow Worker and accomplished ragi singh

South Road
Bahadur Singh, Amrik Singh & Dildip Singh

I hope you all enjoyed the darshan of the Southall Nagar Kirtan
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

DLR – From Bank to Cyprus II

This my second report on a trip from Bank to Cyprus
To  see all my DLR pictures go to : http://www.flickr.com/photos/12445197@N05/sets/72157611244941713/

Shadwell to Limehouse
DLR trains from Bank and Tower Gateway run next to the C2C trains

Limehouse
The station is being made ready for three car trains

Limehouse
C2C trains turn north from here to join the District Line to Upminster between Bow Road and Bromley-by-Bow

Limehouse
Eastbound train to Bank

More to follow
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

Southall Guru Nanak Nagar Kirtan 2009 IV

The fourth part of my pictorial report on the Southall Nagar Kirtan
All pictures will be gradually uploaded to my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/12445197@N05/

King Street full of sangat

Afghani sangat doing simran and singing shabads

Turning into the Green

The Somalian shops in the background

More to follow
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

DLR – From Bank to Cyprus I

Since I got involved in the chaplaincy at the University of East London I regularly travel on the DLR to Cyprus
I have posted a report on a trip to Cyprus via Tower Gateway, this time I travelled from bank
To see all my DLR pictures go to :
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Bank
On the way from the Central Line to the DLR platforms

Bank
Platform 10 arrivals
Platform 9 departures

On the left the DLR tracks to/from Tower Gateway and the C2C tracks to/from Fenchurch Street
On the right a DLR train to Bank

Shadwell
From next year again interchange with the East London Line

More to follow !
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue

Southall Guru Nanak Nagar Kirtan 2009 III

The third part of my pictorial report on the Southall Nagar Kirtan
All pictures will be gradually uploaded to my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/12445197@N05/

The Sikh Federation Float

Nishan Sahib with its new cover
 

Finally, about 90 minutes after the official time, the nagar kirtan is on its way

Looking back to the Singh Sabha Gurdwara

More to follow !

Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue