July 8th 2005 drawings made from memory of the events of July 7th 2005

In a series of fifty-nine sketches, the artist John Hewitt conveyed his personal experiences and impressions of the 7/7 London suicide bombings. Drawn from memory several days after the attacks, the sketches are annotated with handwritten commentary from the artist and chronicle his movement across the city that day.

On the morning of 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers attacked central London's transport network, detonating bombs on the underground and on a double-decker bus. The attacks, which killed fifty-two people and injured hundreds, took place the day after it was announced that the capital would host the Olympic Games in 2012 and during the 31st G8 summit.

This sketch is fourteenth in Hewitt's series and, like the others, only a few lines are used to evoke both people and place. It is annotated with the description: 'They swerve round the one way system and race north towards Russell Square - there seems to be a crowd ahead -'. The motorbikes are shown turning out of Russell Square, where a bomb was detonated, and heading north towards Euston. Ahead of them and on the walkway are groups of pedestrians.