#Tell London
Come on, we said, tell us anything. Anything? you asked. Anything, we replied. Well, as long as it’s not libellous, obscene or flagrantly self-promotional. And you obliged — in your legions.
For two days last week, ES Magazine took a stall at Soho’s Berwick Street Market and asked you to get it off your chests: to send a message to Boris Johnson, David Cameron or Ed Miliband, to beseech your noisy neighbours to shut up, to propose to your girlfriend or boyfriend, or broadcast your Christmas wishlist. We handed out blackboards and chalk, took photographs and doled out enough mince pies and chocolate brownies to feed an army; and we also shook our buckets for the Evening Standard’s fund for the Dispossessed.
The results were more fascinating than we could have hoped for; it turns out you’re not short of things to say. We heard about aliens, the lack of lesbian supermodels, socialist manifestos and Soho’s ‘stardust’. We discovered that although some of you thought you didn’t have much to say at first, you all did — and that London is filled with clever, funny and passionate people. And if you didn’t manage to come along, tweet us your message @ESMagOfficial, with the hashtag #TellLondon, and we’ll retweet you.
ES Magazine would like to thank TFH Gazebos (http://www.tfhgazebos.co.uk/ ), Lallapolosa Baking Company, Daylesford Farm, Crayola, and Peter from Westminster Council for all their help.
If you’d like more information about how to run a stall of your own, visit berwickstreetlondon.co.uk
Team ES: Lotte Jeffs, Alex Clark, Hannah Nathanson, Lucy Hunter Johnston, Dipal Acharya