In photos: the arms-aloft street preacher with a speaker in a shopping trolley, Whitehall, London

Seen strutting along Whitehall, music blaring and arms aloft was this fella who had a Big Message for everyone.

Happily he had no microphone – he let his banner do the talking – but his portable speaker in a shopping trolley was blaring out religious songs as he perambulated towards Parliament Square.

He seemed to like being photographed, so I took a few snaps and let him get on his wavey way.

More street preachers:

If you’ve got a penchant for seeing pics of street preachers in action, check out our huge collection taken on the mean streets of Brixton, south London:

• The quiet one mumbling away in a folding chair, Oct 2020
• The incomprehensible one on Pope’s Road, Oct 2020
• The backstreet prowler, Oct 2020
• The perambulating, passionate one, Sept 2020
• The one with the echo effect, Sept 2020
• The one with the built in billboard, Jan 2020
• The Silent One, Nov 2019
• The full-blown sermon in Windrush Square, May 2019
• The the high speed bloke with the crash helmet and twenty quid notes
•  The grim-faced couple and the Muslim vs Christian argument, April 2018
• Jehovah’s and other preachers, June 2017
• It’s not about me, it’s about Jesus!
• The Don’t Leave It Too Late supermarket persuader
• Happy Mormons with their big banner, Brixton Road
• The double act, Dec 2015
• Maracas for Jesus, March 2016
• The all-weather street singers of Atlantic Road, Brixton
• Brixton 1 – Twelve Tribes of Israel 0. Homophobic street preachers forced out of Windrush Square
• Carlton Warren, ex-boxer
• Brixton Street Preachers: the return of the one with the really loud sound system
• Pentecostal Church belt out the tunes on Acre Lane
• The bagpipe wielding Korean Christians
• The Winner Or Sinner Evangelist, 2000

Main feature:

The street preachers and religious cults of central Brixton, 2000-2014

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