Beggars on the London Overground are becoming a nuisance.
Today, as I returned home, I saw this notice at Dalston Junction station.
So I made a small donation to the Whitechapel Mission.
Let’s hope it helps.
February 12, 2019 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Dalston Junction, London Overground, Whitechapel Mission
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
It does help, quite a lot. Sadly there is a chance that the person begging may use money given directly to them to buy alcohol or drugs. That said, I do give sometimes off a coffee and sandwich in cold weather, or a bottle of water in very hot weather. And I always say hello, tell them my name, and ask what sort of a day they are having; as a recovering alcoholic I know people who have been street homeless, they tell me that the hello is the most important thing. Talking to people I know that in very many cases the abuse of alcohol and drugs follows the homelessness rather causing it.
Comment by Liz Parkinson | February 12, 2019 |
The same applies on S Stock trains on London Underground where advantage is taken of walk through facilities…. Sometimes it’s a lone beggar and sometimes it’s a group playing music on their instruments…
Comment by Melvyn | February 12, 2019 |
Agreed. Have also experienced this myself when traveling on S Stock trains.
Comment by Bob | February 13, 2019 |
Music? My arm!
At least, I’ve never seen a beggar with a set of bagpipes!
Comment by AnonW | February 12, 2019 |