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Hiroshima and Nagasaki day 2018


London CND

6th August: Ceremony in Tavistock Square from 12pm with guest speakers including Bruce Kent and Amelia Womack, opened by the Mayor of Camden.

9th August: We will join commemorations at the London Peace Pagoda as follows. 

18:30  Commemoration of the life and witness of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter at the crypt chapel,   Ambrosden Avenue, behind Westminster Cathedral.  

19:30   Peace Walk starts from Westminster Cathedral. 

20:30   Nagasaki Day Commemoration ceremony at London Peace Pagoda, Battersea Park.


Bromley Borough CND

4th August: Hiroshima vigil outside the Churchill Theatre, Bromley 12.00 - 3.00 pm followed by procession of banners and placards and floating of chrysanthemums on a lake.

9th August: Nagasaki peace picnic in The Archbishop Tutu peace garden - Chinbrook Meadows, Grove Park. Poems and statements. 1.30 - 3.30pm


Kingston CND

6th August: Assemble in Canbury Gardens on the Kingston river bank, at 8.30 pm. Please bring white flowers to cast onto the water in remembrance of those who died, and candles to illuminate the path beside the river.


Sydenham and Forest Hill CND

6th August: Hiroshima Day commemoration at Charlton House from 6.00 p.m.

9th August: Nagasaki Day commemoration. Desmond Tutu Peace Garden, Chilbrook Meadows, 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.


Wimbledon Disarmament Coalition

6th August: Hiroshima Day commemoration on Wimbledon Common from 6.30pm. Activities will include floating candles on Rushmere Pond, music and poetry.