One of the early Mayday protests and celebrations has been taking place at Liverpool St station, with people from Occupy London and supporters spreading the mayday message, informing ppl about the workfare protests and the global protests happening throughout the month of may.

7.55 Lots of police at liverpool st station, about 30 distributed within station & 3 vanloads outside.

8.00 Uniformed and plain clothes officers EVERYWHERE at Liverpool St station

8.10 Most police waiting at entrance to underground. A few overhead. None at extrance of station at Bishopsgate

8.13 Photographers coming out of the woodwork

8.14 Police vans leave liverpool st station in hurry. Lots of photographers here. 

8.36 ppl gathered at finsbury sq with flying helium tent, masks, big bags, bannerrs and sound system, readying leave for liv st

8.43 ppl leaving from occupy finsbury square

8.45 passing old site of occupied bank of ideas

pic http://twitter.com/stanchers/status/197231306264936448/photo/1

8.46 one of the helium balloons has escaped!

8.48 3 balloons have now escaped - need back up balloons!

- one banner reads "May 12: Bring Your Tent", others read "(heart) occupy" and "Evict This!"

8.51 procession from finsbury sq arriving liverpool st

8.54 loads of photographers and british transport police and normal met cops

8.55 informing cops about the upcoming police demo 10th may

ref:

http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Uniformed+Operations/2012/Apr/23/Met-Staff-To-Strike-On-Fed-Day-Of-Action_47535.html

8.56 huge banner (black with white letters) unfurled at liverpool st station concourse reads "A Line of Tents Guards Our Future - Occupy"

pics
http://twitpic.com/9fxnqo
http://twitter.com/stanchers/status/197233022918070272/photo/1
http://twitter.com/JasonRosam/status/197233021068378112/photo/1

Another reads "Occupy London" - pic http://yfrog.com/h3cipobj

8.56 samba drumming loud

9.00 moving through station handing out flowers with tags saying "There is something better out there"

pic: http://twitpic.com/9fxnss
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grimnorth/7131067603/

9.08 now up onto upper level at liverpool st and leaving station
pic http://twitter.com/OccupyLondon/status/197236823137849344/photo/1

9.10 outside station with big banner and band, FIT taking pictures

9.15 handing out flowers and wishing people happy mayday! chatting about upcoming demos and workfare