Monday, September 24, 2007

I AIN'T GOT NONE










This article was an interview with the editor of Spare Change in Vancouver where I was in 1991 I was there for three weeks. I was kicked out of a Salvation Army hostel becuase I was writing about them.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

health service what is that if you cant paid


this was taken outside the royal clollege of nurseing me and the health care worker for CHAR which was trying to educate them. the single homeless need health care whats changed from 1980 1n the last 27 years? There is no national health service ?

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

THISWAS MAYFILED GRILS SCHOOL PUNTEY

this is a head shot photo of me and a pupil at the mayfield girls school where i did a lesson about homeless people

NEW YORK 1989 WHATCHANGE


This is agoup of church and homelss workers from Britain on a fact finding tour of New York in may 1989. Spot me in the photo.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

THIS WAS A DELAGATION OF UNLEASH A CHURCH UMBERLA GUUP FROM BRITTIAN OUT SIDE A CHUCH IN NEW YORK IN MAY 1989

IM NOT A SLEEP


THIS IS ME AS YOU CAN SEE IN LAMBETH LIBRARY IN LOWER MARSH IN WATERLOO I AM NOT A SLEEP

THIS WAS THE START OF MY RECOVERY


As a founder member of the Open Door Project this is me and two of the people that I was interviewing on the interviewing panel to employthem in the seventy's.

THIS IS A FLAT I USED TO LIVE IN


This is a flat I used to live in Waterloo I am as you can see I am still hanging around.

Monday, August 06, 2007

DAYS GONE BY


This is outside the central criminal court some time in 1960 i was inside three times and not as a visitor!

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Me, Outside Institute of Psychiatry


This is a photo of me outside the Department of Child and Adolecent Psychiatry, as it was part over the Maudsley Hospital, Camberwell.
I was an out-patient there from the age of 12 till the age of 36.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

DOWN AND OUT - WHO SAID 1978


THIS IS THE ARTICLE PRODUCED BY THE PECKHAM PULSE WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK NO MORE WALLS PLUS INTERVIEW

NO MORE WALLS BOOK LAUNCHING 1978




This isa window display in the Peckham bookshop in Peckham High Street, South London is of the launching of the first edition of No More Walls on June 10th 1978, the book got to number 4 out 5 top best selling book list in the "Book Seller" which is a trade magazine. This at the time was mindblowing.

National Homless Demo May 11th 1980


These two photos were taken on the day just after the band who had been entertaining the roughly the two /three thousand crowd I am the third on the left on the platform.


Rez Band Greenbelt Festival 1993


When I went to the Greenbelt Festival in a August 1993. This is a band I interviewed. They are called Rez, and are from the USA. They were great a mixture of rock and gospel. I also did a personal interview for radio Northants.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR 7JULY 2007













mike oxley on the 6 of july 2007 at his stag partey looking very dapper












THIS IS RENE AND ME. RENE IS MARION'S SISTER




THIS IS A PHOTO OF MARION AND ME AT THE WEDING RECEPTION WHICH WAS HELD ON A FARM NEAR ST. ALBANS


THEASE PHOTOS WHERE TAKEN ON 7 OF JULY 2007

















































Tuesday, July 03, 2007

DOWN THE TUBES


This film was made of me walking from my home to Chalk Farm tube station onto the train to the Bank tube in a lift and up and down stairs to show what difficulties a disabled person has in accessing public transport as i have had to have an escort I when I travel on a bus.







http://www.archive.org/download/DownTheTube/MichaelUnderground1.mov

days and years of my life


This is me at St. Benedicts Approved school Mortimore Reading on June 2nd 1953 Coronation Day. I was aged 15. I was there from October 1952 'till December 1954.
My mum and dad an two friends year unknown

Monday, June 25, 2007

BE STILL













My name is James Nelson I am nearly 71 years old, a punk rocker. With a group of friends, and at a recording studio, we recorded 'Be Still' I /we are in the procces of recording a 4 track cd which we hope to be ready if we get into a studio. It will hopefully be finished by November December 2007 if things go according to plan. If you want to buy Be Still, log on to: www.cdbaby.com/jamesnelson
To listen to Be Still, click the following link: http://www.archive.org/download/BeStill_90/BeStill_90_64kb.m3u


Best wishes james nelson

Monday, April 23, 2007


This is a photo of me taking in the Castle Day Centre near the Elephant and Castle in 1969 just after my labotomy.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Southwark Unemployment Centre Peckham






These two photos were taken of me in the centre at a business meeting and of me rolling a fag! This centre, like a couple more were not controlled by the TUC, and struggled for funding as independent centres. The centres survived on donations to keep the centres open. This was in 1980 the year of the people's march for jobs on May 1 from Liverpool to London where it arrived on May 31st.







I walked from Liverpool to Manchester, and because of illness, left the march and rejoined it from Wembley to Hyde Park, then on to Trafalgar Square. It was estimated that a 1/4 million people were on the march from Hyde Park and Tralfarar Square.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

St Patricks Day in Kentish Town

This is yours Truly outside Geenwood, where I lived. I believe it was in 2002, and I know it was the 17 March on St Patrick's Day. There are two flags, the Cross of St. George at the top and the Irish Tricolour.

Monday, March 12, 2007

ONCE AGAIN, IT'S MINE AND NOT THEIRS


In 1994, James Mirriam Promotions and Putting Our House In Order were the forerunners of Intercontinental Promotions. I believed it worked for some time but due to lack of money, people's egos, and people being used, made it fold. I believe Intercontinental Promotions was the Phoenix that arose from the ashes of "James Mirriam Promotions" and "Putting Our House in Order"


ONCE AGAIN, IT'S MINE AND NOT THEIRS


In 1994, James Mirriam Promotions and Putting Our House In Order were the forerunners of Intercontinental Promotions. I believed it worked for some time but due to lack of money, people's egos, and people being used, made it fold. I believe Intercontinental Promotions was the Phoenix that arose from the ashes of "James Mirriam Promotions" and "Putting Our House in Order"


Tuesday, March 06, 2007

BLASTS FROM THE PAST, AND BACK TO SCHOOL


THESE ARE TWO PHOTOS THE FRIST IS ME TALKING TO AT MAYFIELD SECONDARY GIRLS SCHOOL IN PUTNEY WEST LONDON IN 1978. THE SECOND IS IN A DAY CENTRE IN SOUTH LONDON IN 1984



Monday, March 05, 2007

THEY CAN'T TAKE MY LIFE HISTORY FROM ME


This is yours truley with my exhibition in Peckham with Southwark Tenants Association in the 1970s.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

this was the third world convention of aa


This was the third world convention that I attended, The first was San Diago 1995, 63000 people registered in Minneapolis in 2000, 50,000. In Toronto, it was estimated that there were 70,000 people in the Sky Dome , with members coming from 142 countries, home of the Toronto Blue Jays basball team the experience blew me away (some of the information is from my experience only)