title Uni: No Chance Fowler! A student Demonstration, London - 26th February 1986 intro Nosher was not much of a political animal at Uni, but being the official Students' Union photographer meant covering several demos. This one was against something to do with grants and benefits and was aimed squarely at Normal Fowler, Mrs Thatcher's Education Secretary at the time (or maybe still at Health and Social Security). It included the memorable chant 'Nothing stinks Fowler than Norman!', and included a brief diversion to the top of a tower block to photograph the demo as it paused at some park - possibly Kennington Park - in South London for a bit of a political rally. It was quite groovy, really: getting interviewed by London radio, the massed barricades of police on Embankment and the coach trip on the way home, desperately listening to the radio to hear if we'd changed the world. However, it was also seriously cold - at one point the tail of the film actually snapped off as it was being taken out of the camera. scan-111205-0004 Karen on the coach, on the way to the demo scan-111205-0006 Some random beer drinking somewhere scan-111205-0041 A dude with a guitar near Waterloo scan-111202-0004 Plymouth Students, indeed scan-111202-0005 Grant holds up the PPSU banner scan-111202-0006 Contra-jour of marching students scan-111205-0001 A Father Christmas gets in on the act scan-111205-0002 More Plymouth Poly banner waving scan-111205-0003 Simon Haddon does his banner-waving duty scan-111205-0005 Plymouth Polytechnic Labour Students are out scan-111205-0007 Fight Fowler - Stop the Cuts scan-111205-0008 A policewoman accompanies the crowd scan-111205-0009 A bloke dressed as a rabbit scan-111205-0010 The demo passes by Partnership House on Waterloo Road scan-111205-0042 Another street is blocked off by the police scan-111205-0031 Trevelyan College, Durham scan-111205-0032 No Chance Fowler! scan-111205-0033 More "Fight Fowler, Stop the Cuts" placards scan-111205-0034 Some of Nosher's chums, from the Psychology massive scan-111205-0035 Grant Thornton swigs from a can of Budweiser scan-111202-0001 More students stream in to the park scan-111202-0002 A mass of students attend a rally scan-111202-0003 In what is possibly Kennington Park scan-111205-0051 Students on Nelson's Column, with fake (?) police helmets scan-111205-0052 Police outside a shop on Trafalgar Square scan-111205-0053 Nelson's Column scan-111205-0055 Students stake out the bottom of Nelson's Column scan-111205-0056 Students and pigeons scan-111205-0061 Sam Kennedy and Grant Thornton (left) fight the power scan-111205-0062 Occupying the Trafalgar lions scan-111205-0037 Police and students mill around at Temple Place scan-111205-0039 A line of police blocks of Embankment scan-111205-0060 Opposite the Festival Hall scan-111205-0038 The riot vans are out scan-111205-0040 Massed police at Temple Place, on the Embankment scan-111205-0058 There's something of a sit-in taking place scan-111205-0059 A sit-in on the Plymouth Poly Students' Union banner scan-111205-0054 Alison and Sam at Charing Cross tube station scan20200923-0024 Nosher and Sam at Charing Cross underground