Wiring light pendant advice please

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Hi. I am a complete electrical novice so would really appreciate some plain advice.
Moved into a new (old) property and a builder removed the light pendant in the living room whilst ripping out a suspended wooden ceiling. Didn't take pictures of the wiring arrangements.
I'm now trying to fit a pendant light to the newly plastered ceiling, which will house 3 x 60 watt bulbs. I've included pictures of the wires hanging from the ceiling and those in the pendant.
Could someone please advise me on how to connect these together?
The pendant will hang from a hook in the beam above the plaster ceiling rose (not fitted yet).
Do I need to connect via junction box, ceiling rose, or can I just connect using push-wire connectors, or the existing connectors in the pictures, and tape? If so, which will connect to which?

Thanks very much in advance.

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The single black in connector block on its own ,is the switched live and you should put a bit of red sleeving or tape on it ,so it doesn't get mixed up with the other blacks which are neutrals.
All bare earth conductors should be sleeved yellow/ green. The 3 reds need to go together into a 4th terminal block they don't connect to the light fitting .
 
And the third earth should be connected to the other two.
 
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The single black in connector block on its own ,is the switched live and you should put a bit of red sleeving or tape on it ,so it doesn't get mixed up with the other blacks which are neutrals.
All bare earth conductors should be sleeved yellow/ green. The 3 reds need to go together into a 4th terminal block they don't connect to the light fitting .
Personally I'd suggest to avoid disturbing the the existing cables only so the neutrals/sw.live blacks don't get confused.
Electrically it's identical to Terry's and don't forget the mentioned red (or brown) marker on the single black:
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Thanks for your replies guys, much appreciated. Cheers Sunray for the image, very useful! I didn't get time to fix it up today but I'll have a go tomorrow.
 

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