Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: assassinated 30 Jan 48

On 30 January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - also known as Mahatma Gandhi - was shot three times in the chest and died. Every year, there is a small memorial service held in London's Tavistock Square to commemorate his death. There is another on his birthday, October 2nd.

I went along this year with a friend and political colleague, and her mother. There were speeches from the Indian High Commissioner to the UK as well as the Mayor of Camden (the borough where the square is) and many others.

This shot is taken during one of the speeches, from behind the statue of Gandhi in the middle of the square.

Gandhi is not alone in the square, though. There is also a memorial to conscientious objectors (unveiled in 1995), busts of Virginia Woolf and Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake as well as a cherry tree planted in 1967 in memory of the victims of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

More recently, however, Tavistock square is probably best know as the place where, on 7 July 2005, a suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus, killing 13 people as well as himself.