title	Margaret Thatcher's Funeral, St. Paul's, London - 17th April 2013
intro	The era of Maggie Thatcher covered pretty much Nosher's entire academic and formative life, from the age of 12 up to the end of polytechnic, and just beyond to 23. Obviously, Polytechnic is where it's more-or-less compulsory to be "anti Stuff", even if Nosher's political involvement was mostly working for the student magazine Fly and photographing student demos against various Thatcherite policies. The funeral happens to be taking place about 200 metres away from the usual cycle route from Liverpool Street station to work, the roads are all closed anyway and - seeing as it's unlikely we will see a politician worthy of a state funeral for several more generations - it was an opportunity too good to miss. And so it was that Nosher bunks off work for 50 minutes to observe the proceedings from the south side of St. Paul's Cathedral.
imgp9905	The increasingly-derelict A Senger building
imgp9906	The edge of the Crossrail development in Stratford
imgp9908	A new railway viaduct is built
imgp9911	More concrete construction
imgp9914	Concrete silos at Crossrail
imgp9917	Major construction on the Stratford Crossrail site
imgp9923	Silver tags on a railway bridge
imgp9925	More new graffiti on the trackside
imgp9927	The eerie sight of a car-free Cannon Street
imgp9931	A military type and a rozzer, on Cannon Street
imgp9932	The world's media is in attendance
imgp9934	A heavily-armed Land Rover unit roams around
imgp9944	A City of London Rozzer, in ceremonial uniform
imgp9945	A small protest is occuring
imgp9946	Someone with a creepy Thatcher mask on
imgp9949	More political masks
imgp9952	A protester is interviewed
imgp9953	The anti-Thatcherites are quizzed by a student
imgp9955	Photographers are everywhere
imgp9958	The view around St. Paul's
imgp9974	The flag-draped coffin stops by St. Paul's
imgp9983	The gun carriage and coffin heads up to St. Paul's
imgp0001	The scene on St. Paul's Churchyard
imgp0002	The clock of St. Paul's shows it's nearly time
imgp0004	A Met sergeant and an RAF type
imgp0007	The band heads back down St. Paul's Churchyard
imgp0013	Another military band in Bearskins
imgp0020	Bikes are pressed in to service as a vantage point
imgp0021	St. Paul's Churchyard
imgp0023	The crowds dissipate after the service moves inside
imgp0030	The continuing protest, with a yellow coffin
imgp0032	More interviewing
imgp0036	Military types hang around on a traffic island
imgp0038	A soldier points
imgp0042	The corner of Cannon Street and New Change
imgp0044	Temporary barricades all around St. Paul's
imgp0045	Cannon Street and St. Paul's
imgp0049	Heading back up Cannon Street
imgp0051	When Nosher gets to work, the office is deserted