Eastgate clock to Cross
Cross to town hall
town hall to Eastgate clock
We had less helpers this time, largely due to a hand-in deadline that day for lots of other students but our lecturer came along to help out. Because of the reduced number of protesters we didn't take a flash mob style approach to this protest, instead we marched as a group from start to finish. The first cause we went with was "DOWN WITH MAN U. MARK", suggested by someone who's friend called mark kept annoying him with the Manchester United scores.
At the Cross we changed the protest to "DOWN WITH STEPS, UP WITH RAMPS", suggested by a lady in a wheel chair. She agreed to chant with us and have her photograph taken and while we were chanting another lady with a pram came to join in.
For the third part of the protest we changed to "FAIR DEAL FOR THE OVER 50'S" as suggested by the gentleman shown in the photograph below.
I photographed this leg of the march. Before we began moving a lady came to join in with the chanting outside the town hall.
As the group was marching a group of boys began cycling along side and joined in with the chanting. They were only messing around but it was a good reaction.
The group stopped on the corner of Eastgate Street before continuing on to the clock. They attracted quite a lot of attention while chanting here.
When we finished under the clock quite a few members of the public came to talk to us about the protest.
Fair deal for the over 50's was the most controversial protest we had carried out that day and I was surprised to hear some of the things that people were saying in the street such as "what do they need a fair deal for" and "what about the over 60's?"
