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 particular sketch, which looks north towards Tavistock Square, is annotated as follows: 'I keep walking. There seems to be activity in the road ahead. A thing like a red crane is across the far lane of the road. One of the women walking towards me is crying. I start to think I am probably walking in the wrong direction.'

The drawing shows the weeping woman on the left, with other pedestrians behind her. On the right is the road, with a car indicated in the foreground. The confused scene in the background is the bombed double-decker bus in Tavistock Square.