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Easter Sunday

On Easter Sunday in London you can go egg rolling in Fleet Street after the Dawn Service at St Brides, fun at 6.30am on a Sunday morning but not otherwise recommended in one of the city’s busiest streets. Later there is the Easter Parade in Battersea Park.

Chocolate Easter Bunny in a North London confectioner, 1970s

Decorated Eastern European Easter Eggs (provided by a Cypriot neighbour in London)

Easter Bonnet at the Easter Parade, Battersea Park, London, 1982

Spanish Pipers at the Easter Parade, Battersea Park, London, 1982

Vintage Cycle Club members at the Easter Parade, Battersea Park, London, 1982

Pearly family at the Easter Parade in Battersea Park, London, 1982

A mas band from Notting Hill Carnival at the Easter Parade, Battersea Park, London, 1982

The Pearly King of Battersea extracting charity donations at the Easter Parade in Battersea Park, London, 1988

The Great Garibaldi and the Scots Guards Band at the Easter Parade in Battersea Park, London, 1982

At an Easter Bonnet Contest in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England (The man could be from the local town planning department)

The choir and congregation of St Bride’s, the ‘Journalist’s Church’ by Fleet St, London, egg rolling in the unusually deserted street after an early morning communion on Easter Sunday, 1988

Flowers in Barrow-in-Furness cemetery at Easter, Cumbria, England