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  • A housewife poses in her still undecorated home surrounded by material possessions bought with a credit card during the must-have economy. Shot in an era of Thatcherite must-have materialism, when the credit economy was a way of life for millions, decades before the recessions and financial crashes of the Noughties, this lady holds up her Visa card and glass of red wine. Surrounded by her purchases bought on credit, she smiles at us with economic confidence.
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  • A City man carries a bunch of inflated balloons through Cornhill in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 14th March 2018, in London England.
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  • Buying vegetables at Edinburgh farmers market, Scotland
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  • Destined for nearby offices, two workmen deliver a heavy piece of corporate art taped up and covered in a narrow side street in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Each manhandling a corner and sharing the weight of this awkward company asset. Taped up for protection and handled carefully, the men make their way along a narrow medieval street called Tokenhouse Yard. This street dates from Charles I and was where farthing tokens were coined. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • A Newspaper seller displays copies of the London tabloid aimed at commuters The Evening Standard, on sale here at Monument underground station. On this day, the headline is about the tube and rail strike that inconvenienced thousands of Londoners on 21st June 1989. Passengers who might have descended into the subterranean tunnels of this Victorian transport system, purchase their favoured paper containing all the news of the industrial action.
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  • Spectators choose flags to but at an official Olympic merchandise stall on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
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  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
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  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    liffe_traders43-25-09-2012.jpg
  • Seen from across an empty car park, a male customer carries away a flat packed purchase from Swedish home furnishing store Ikea. The giant company words appear as large yellow letters on the blue warehouse walls. The man of the family sees it as his role to buy the right unit and assemble the item at home using sequential instructions on the floor of a living room.  This store at Croydon in south London is a Mecca for lovers of flat-packed home furnishings.
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  • Recently-purchased tickets for the new Harry Potter film, Chamber of Secrets from the original book by KJ Rowling, are handed out to family members in Leicester Square, on 24th November 2002, in London, England.
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  • A lady carries a boxed pedestal office fan one of the hottest days of the year, during the 2018 heatwave, in the City of London the capitals financial district, on 24th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • An Asian woman packs her suitcase with recent purchases, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • A woman carrying two fennel bulbs at Edinburgh Farmers Market, Scotland
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  • Marin Morosan, a Romanian peasant farmer buys vegetable seedlings at Bogdan Voda local market, Maramures, Romania. 90% of vegetable production is grown in small household plots and mainly used for self-consumption and for sale on local markets.
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  • A Newspaper seller displays copies of the London tabloid aimed at commuters The Evening Standard, on sale here at Monument underground station. On this day, the headline is about the tube and rail strike that inconvenienced thousands of Londoners on 21st June 1989. Passengers who might have descended into the subterranean tunnels of this Victorian transport system, purchase their favoured paper containing all the news of the industrial action.
    strike_newspapers01-21-06-1989_1_1.jpg
  • A lady with Selfridges department store shopping bags stands by old construction oil drum outside Ritz road works. The well-dressed shopper has been to the large American store on nearby Oxford Street and holds her famous yellow bags that are recognised across the country. But rather incongruously is the construction site oil drum that is usually filled with concrete, acting as barriers at road junctions. <br />
H. Gordon Selfridge was born in 1858 in Ripon, Wisconsin, and in 1879 joined Field, Leiter and Company (later to become Marshall Field & Company), where he worked for the famous Chicago retailer. He worked his way up through the firm, married into the prominent Buckingham family, and amassed the fortune with which he built his new London store.
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  • Young girls enjoy their latest purchase of foam hands as they exit the official London 2012 merchandise shop - hours before another successful gold medal win, this time by Team GB triathlete Alistair Brownlee in the men's Triathlon during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The mid-week event surprisingly drew huge crowds into the capital's largest public (royal) park for an event, not usually attracting families with children who all enjoyed the fine weather and easy temperatures. A London 2012 merchandise shop was set up on the southern side and parents and kids used the exterior hoarding featuring iconic London landmarks such as Nelson's Column, St Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge, to relax against after an early start from homes around the country
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  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    liffe_traders45-25-09-2012.jpg
  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    liffe_traders42-25-09-2012.jpg
  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    liffe_traders41-25-09-2012.jpg
  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    liffe_traders40-25-09-2012.jpg
  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    liffe_traders39-25-09-2012.jpg
  • At the end of trading, tired brokers who used the 'open cry' form of communicating futures and commodity prices on the trading floor at the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) in the 1990s. The floor is also known as the bear pit where derivatives, options, futures and their contracts are exchanged in a frenzy of arm and hand expressions which communicate prices and quantities. The LIFFE exchange was synonymous with the Thatcherite capitalist money-making ethos in the City of London of the 80s and early 90s before the takeover by Euronext in January 2002. It is currently known as Euronext.liffe. Euronext subsequently merged with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.
    liffe_traders38-25-09-2012.jpg
  • A man carries a bunch of birthday balloons and red flowers past a construction hoarding. Featuring a surprised expression of a woman reproduced in black and white, the man stops to let a moped scotter pass and he grasps the bouquet for his wife's special day. The hoarding is located on Ludgate Hill in the City of London, the capital's financial financial heart and historic centre founded by the Romans in AD43 but now the point of focus for Britain's economy.
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  • Shoppers inside a Glasgow branch of supermarket chain Lidl with corporate colours and checkout counter. On the window is a Welcome to Scotland poster that shows the Glenfinnan Monument near Fort William, where Scottish Jacobite Bonnie Prince Charlie first raised his rebel standard in 1745. Founded in the 1930s by a member of the Schwarz family, Lidl is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany that operates over 7,200 stores across Europe. The company's full name is Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG. It belongs to the holding company Schwarz Gruppe, which also owns the store chains Handelshof and hypermarket Kaufland.
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  • A Muslim woman shopper carries her shopping bag purchases over her shoulder in central London. Passing-by is a man in smart shirt and glasses along the Kings Road in Chelsea. The scene is a mix of cultures sharing the same need to buy goods, spending the same economy.
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  • Amid much humour and banter, two meat porters grab hands in Smithfield market during the pre-dawn buying and selling of meat, bought and sold here for 800 years, one of London’s oldest markets. One man’s coat reveals blood stains as he smiles good-naturedly to his fellow worker who is of afro-Caribbean descent. A livestock market occupied the site as early as the 10th century. Approximately 120,000 tons of produce pass through the market each year. As well as meat and poultry, products such as cheese, pies, and other delicatessen goods are available. Buyers including butchers, restaurateurs and caterers are able see the goods for themselves and drive away with what they have bought. Bargaining between buyers and sellers at Smithfield sets the guidelines for meat and poultry prices throughout the UK.
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  • Meat porters drag old carts laden with freshly-butchered meat in Smithfield market. One man’s coat reveals blood stains and one calls to the other as they walk. Meat has been bought and sold at Smithfield for over 800 years, making it one of the oldest markets in London. A livestock market occupied the site as early as the 10th century. Approximately 120,000 tons of produce pass through the market each year. As well as meat and poultry, products such as cheese, pies, and other delicatessen goods are available. Buyers including butchers, restaurateurs and caterers are able see the goods for themselves and drive away with what they have bought. Bargaining between buyers and sellers at Smithfield sets the guidelines for meat and poultry prices throughout the UK.
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  • The TV tracked from the UK by Greenpeace has been identified amongst hundreds of newly arrived TVs from the UK. The TV is picked out and bought back by Greenpeace activists and brought back to London, UK.  Alaba International Market, one of the largest markets for electronic goods in West Africa.  New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China.This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • The TV tracked from the UK by Greenpeace has been identified amongst hundreds of newly arrived TVs from the UK. The TV is picked out and bought back by Greenpeace activists and brought back to London, UK.  Alaba International Market, one of the largest markets for electronic goods in West Africa.  New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China.This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • The Faraday Future Inc. FFZero1 concept vehicle stands on display at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Bought by Chinese streaming service billionaire Jia Yueting, the company has since been mired in controversy as Jia is being accused of cheating on his investors. China is leading the way to move towards new energy vehicles especially electrification as it sees an opportunity to leap frog traditional powerhouses in the automobile industry.
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  • Shop selling fresh fish in Wan Chai’s thronging food market on Bowrington Road in Hong Kong, China. Almost any food can be bought here, both fresh or cooked, on this stall it was possible to buy some very exotic fish as food. Unlike western markets, almost anything goes in Chinese wet markets. Wan Chai is a busy Chinese shopping district totally different to nearby westernised Central.
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  • Shop selling meat in Wan Chai’s thronging food market on Bowrington Road in Hong Kong, China. Almost any food can be bought here, both fresh or cooked. Wan Chai is a busy Chinese shopping district totally different to nearby westernised Central.
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  • Shop selling fruit and vegetables in Wan Chai’s thronging food market on Bowrington Road in Hong Kong, China. Almost any food can be bought here, both fresh or cooked. Wan Chai is a busy Chinese shopping district totally different to nearby westernised Central.
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  • Shop selling dried fish and other seafood in Wan Chai’s thronging food market on Bowrington Road in Hong Kong, China. Almost any food can be bought here, both fresh or cooked. Wan Chai is a busy Chinese shopping district totally different to nearby westernised Central.
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  • Eggs and tofu float in a bowl of warmed Chinese soy sauce in Shanghai, China. A very common street snack, these can be bought all over Shanghai and China from small stalls which make a few Reminbi Yuan, Chinese currency for their owners. It is common to see this food being served as a sideline to another business; a newsagent who also serves some simple street food.
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  • Ceramic pots for sale in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, China. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably.
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  • Stall owners with famous waving Mao Zedong statues for sale in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, China. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably. Mao Zedong, commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the Peoples Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party.
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  • Famous waving Mao Zedong statues for sale in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, China. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably. Mao Zedong, commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the Peoples Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 092_alamy.jpg
  • Marble, carved chops for sale in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, China. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 075_alamy.jpg
  • Stall owners in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, China. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 076.jpg
  • Lay Brothers Dormitory and stained glass windows at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Abbey Church stained glass windows at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Abbey Church columns at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Abbey Church stained glass windows at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Abbey Church stained glass windows at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Abbey Church stained glass windows at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Abbey Church stained glass windows at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Tomb in Abbey Church at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Abbey Church stained glass windows at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Abbey Church altar at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Unique half-barrel vault in the Lay Brothers Refectory at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
    20180514_abbaye fontfroid interior_0...jpg
  • Lay Brothers Refectory at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Wrought iron gates at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Lay Brothers Refectory at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Sculpture of Zeus in the gardens at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Roof tiles at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Exterior of Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Exterior of Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Cloister at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Cloister at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Cloister detail at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Lion sculpture at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • Lion sculpture at Fontfroide Abbey near Narbonne, France. Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be refounded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne. The abbey fought together with Pope Innocent III against the heretical doctrine of the Cathars who lived in the region. It was dissolved in 1791 in the course of the French Revolution. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet dAndoque bought it to protect the fabric of the buildings from an American collector of sculpture. They restored it over a number of years and used it as a centre for artistic projects. It still remains in private hands. Today it is open to paying guests.
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  • In the marbled atrium where the tickets can be bought for the cinema, hangs David Cerny’s sculpture called Kun, an equestrian sculpture of  St Wenceslas in Wenceslas Square in Lucerna Gallery, on 19th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. Lucerna is the most elegant of Nove Mesto’s many shopping arcades runs through the art-nouveau Lucerna Palace 1920, between Stepanska and Vodickova streets. The complex was designed by Vaclav Havel grandfather of the former president, and is still partially owned by the family. It includes theatres, a cinema, shops, a rock club and several cafes and restaurants. Here St Wenceslas sits astride a horse that is decidedly dead; it’s safe to assume this is a reference to Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013.
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  • The entrance gates of Drapers Hall livery company in Throgmorton Street, on 17th Juy 2017, in the City of London, England. The Drapers’ Company is a Livery Company in the City of London whose roots go back to the 13th century, when as its name indicates, it was involved in the drapery trade. While it is no longer involved in the trade, the Company has evolved acquiring a new relevance. Its main role today is to be the trustee of the charitable trusts that have been left in its care over the centuries. The Company also manages a thriving hospitality business. The first Drapers’ Hall was built in the 15th century in St Swithin’s Lane.  It bought a Hall on the present site in Throgmorton Street in 1543 from King Henry VIII for £1,200 about £350,000 in today’s money. The Hall that the Company purchased from King Henry VIII in 1543 had been the private residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex until his execution in 1540, when it was confiscated by the Crown.
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  • New apartments rise over the fence of the Grow Elephant Community Garden, on the New Kent Road at Elephant & Castle, Southwark, on 11th October 2016, London, England. Surrounded by the arrival of gentrified apartments, many bought by foreign investors, Grow Elephant is on New Kent Road and occupying the former Heygate estate. Regular gardening workshops and volunteering sessions are organised making it an important social space for the local residents.
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  • New apartments rise over the fence of the Grow Elephant Community Garden, on the New Kent Road at Elephant & Castle, Southwark on 11th October 2016, London, England. Surrounded by the arrival of gentrified apartments, many bought by foreign investors, Grow Elephant is on New Kent Road and occupying the former Heygate estate. Regular gardening workshops and volunteering sessions are organised making it an important social space for the local residents.
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  • Close up of an Akha women’s headdress made from hand forged silver, coins, handwoven cotton, market bought cotton, plastic beads, bamboo, cowrie shells and woollen tassels. Traditionally, women would wear their headdress even while bathing, sleeping and working in the fields. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • An Akha woman putting on her traditional headdress before a village wedding, Ban Lang Pa, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR. Made from hand forged silver, coins, handwoven cotton, market bought cotton, plastic beads, bamboo, cowrie shells and woollen tassels women would traditionally wear their headdress even while bathing, sleeping and working in the fields.
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  • An Akha woman wearing her traditional headdress at Meung Long market, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR. Made from hand forged silver, coins, handwoven cotton, market bought cotton, plastic beads, bamboo, cowrie shells and woollen tassels women would traditionally wear their headdress even while bathing, sleeping and working in the fields.
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  • 'BP or not BP' and 'Shell Out Sounds' make a joint intervention against the sponsorship by SHELL of the Rembrandt exhibition due to open the following day atthe National Gallery.  The intervention was about the sponsorship of oil money and the looming privatisation of British galleries. At one point the narrator of the show sings: ' Museum man, he bought their plan / to sell his staff to private hands / make deals with corporate monsters / like Shell the oily sponsor'. The show was cut short by staff and all were peacefully ejected from the lobby and into the street. The intervention was part of an ongoing campaign against oil sponsorship of British public institutions like the National Gallery and the Tate galleries.
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  • 'BP or not BP' and 'Shell Out Sounds' make a joint intervention against the sponsorship by SHELL of the Rembrandt exhibition due to open the following day atthe National Gallery.  The intervention was about the sponsorship of oil money and the looming privatisation of British galleries. At one point the narrator of the show sings: ' Museum man, he bought their plan / to sell his staff to private hands / make deals with corporate monsters / like Shell the oily sponsor'. The show was cut short by staff and all were peacefully ejected from the lobby and into the street. The intervention was part of an ongoing campaign against oil sponsorship of British public institutions like the National Gallery and the Tate galleries.
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  • 'BP or not BP' and 'Shell Out Sounds' make a joint intervention against the sponsorship by SHELL of the Rembrandt exhibition due to open the following day atthe National Gallery.  The intervention was about the sponsorship of oil money and the looming privatisation of British galleries. At one point the narrator of the show sings: ' Museum man, he bought their plan / to sell his staff to private hands / make deals with corporate monsters / like Shell the oily sponsor'. The show was cut short by staff and all were peacefully ejected from the lobby and into the street. The intervention was part of an ongoing campaign against oil sponsorship of British public institutions like the National Gallery and the Tate galleries.
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  • 'BP or not BP' and 'Shell Out Sounds' make a joint intervention against the sponsorship by SHELL of the Rembrandt exhibition due to open the following day atthe National Gallery.  The intervention was about the sponsorship of oil money and the looming privatisation of British galleries. At one point the narrator of the show sings: ' Museum man, he bought their plan / to sell his staff to private hands / make deals with corporate monsters / like Shell the oily sponsor'. The show was cut short by staff and all were peacefully ejected from the lobby and into the street. The intervention was part of an ongoing campaign against oil sponsorship of British public institutions like the National Gallery and the Tate galleries.
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  • 'BP or not BP' and 'Shell Out Sounds' make a joint intervention against the sponsorship by SHELL of the Rembrandt exhibition due to open the following day atthe National Gallery.  The intervention was about the sponsorship of oil money and the looming privatisation of British galleries. At one point the narrator of the show sings: ' Museum man, he bought their plan / to sell his staff to private hands / make deals with corporate monsters / like Shell the oily sponsor'. The show was cut short by staff and all were peacefully ejected from the lobby and into the street. The intervention was part of an ongoing campaign against oil sponsorship of British public institutions like the National Gallery and the Tate galleries.
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  • 'BP or not BP' and 'Shell Out Sounds' make a joint intervention against the sponsorship by SHELL of the Rembrandt exhibition due to open the following day atthe National Gallery.  The intervention was about the sponsorship of oil money and the looming privatisation of British galleries. At one point the narrator of the show sings: ' Museum man, he bought their plan / to sell his staff to private hands / make deals with corporate monsters / like Shell the oily sponsor'. The show was cut short by staff and all were peacefully ejected from the lobby and into the street. The intervention was part of an ongoing campaign against oil sponsorship of British public institutions like the National Gallery and the Tate galleries.
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  • The shop sign of fishmongers Fish in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Owned by experienced fishmonger Willie Little, whose passion for the sea can be tasted at his Little's Restaurant in Blairgowie, these 'piscatorial surgeons' offer a wide range of fresh fish and shellfish bought direct from Scrabster Market in the North of Scotland - from market to plate within 12 hours. The shop also supplies game and poultry, deli produce, and homemade items such as quiches and terrines.
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  • Fishmonger Willie Little holds a brown crab from Orkney at his fishmongers shop Fish in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Willie Littles passion for the sea can be tasted at his Little's Restaurant in Blairgowie. Fish in Crieff offer a wide range of fresh fish and shellfish bought direct from Scrabster Market in the North Of Scotland - from market to plate within 12 hours.
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  • Self-taught handygirl Hafida Sarachi, 34, lives in Wiltshire.<br />
She set up Handygirl in April 2006<br />
I bought all the necessary tools from DIY stores and taught myself how to refurbish my home. I soon discovered I had a flair for it.
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  • Outer cloister of Wat Pho temple has 400 Buddhas bought by King Rama V.  Wat Pho is one of the largest and oldest wats in Bangkok (with an area of 50 rai, 80,000 square metres), and is home to more than one thousand Buddha images, as well as one of the largest single Buddha images of 160 ft length: the Reclining Buddha .
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  • Outer cloister of Wat Pho temple has 400 Buddhas bought by King Rama V.  Wat Pho is one of the largest and oldest wats in Bangkok (with an area of 50 rai, 80,000 square metres), and is home to more than one thousand Buddha images, as well as one of the largest single Buddha images of 160 ft length: the Reclining Buddha .
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  • Outer cloister of Wat Pho temple has 400 Buddhas bought by King Rama V.  Wat Pho is one of the largest and oldest wats in Bangkok (with an area of 50 rai, 80,000 square metres), and is home to more than one thousand Buddha images, as well as one of the largest single Buddha images of 160 ft length: the Reclining Buddha .
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  • A farmer ploughs his field using a Ford TW-25 tractor in Lincolnshire, England. The large hydraulically-driven machine drives over the land with its plough towed behind over hard-looking ground bought by a local dealer called Sharmans of Grantham, the nearest town. The word Ploughman is on the tractor's front, perhaps a nickname for this local landowner. An escarpment rises in the background towards a farmhouse on its ridge.
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  • Soon to arrive in the English port of Portsmouth from Cherbourg, the first of its routes, we see the SeaCat leaving its watery wake in the English Channel. Hoverspeed Great Britain is a 74 metre long, ocean-going catamaran built in 1990 by Incat for the UK company Hoverspeed. It is powered by four 20RK270 marine engines with a 7080 kW at 100% Maximum Continuous Rating (MCR). The engines were built at the Newton-le-Willows site which at the time was part of the Alstom group. Since then it has been bought by MAN B&W Germany and the site was closed and production transferred to nearby Mirrlees Blackstone site. Hoverspeed, formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd, was a ferry and hovercraft company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005.
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  • Kayaks and canoes stand upright against a shop wall in Oban, Scotland. With a background of orange render and a yellow door to this outdoor adventure shop, the two coastal sport boats combine perfectly with the echoed colours, similar pastel colours on the spectrum. In addition, we see a yellow At Any Time street sign preventing motorists from parking here at the roadside. We are in a back street of Oban, a west coast ferry town that serves many outlying isles in this wild region of Scotland. Visitors enjoy sea kayaking which can be expensive to hire so these two examples can be bought from the outfitters for around £700 and £1,00 respectively. Interestingly, the brand for the smaller boat is Eskimo, a term seen in some regions of north America as unacceptable, while in others used more widely.
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  • A cigarette dispenser mounted to an apartment block wall in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. The dirty wall and street pavement show a district in disrepair where immigration and a non-German population is high. Unlike in Britain, tobacco and cigarettes can be bought unregulated by anyone - even children - on the street. Brands such as Marlboro, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Cabinet can be chosen by pushing a selection button.
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  • A man wearing a bright Adidas tracksuit-type of sports clothing walks and talks passing the pillars of the Bank of England. On an otherwise dull street minus strong colour elsewhere, the man wears the bright blue from head top foot including the 3 stripes of the sports clothing brand known throughout the world. Adolf Dassler, following the split of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik between him and his older brother Rudolf, founded Adidas in 1948. Rudolf later established Puma, which was the early rival of Adidas. Registered in 1949, Adidas is currently based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, along with Puma. The company's clothing and shoe designs typically feature three parallel bars, and the same motif is incorporated into Adidas's current official logo. The "Three Stripes" were bought from the Finnish sport company Karhu Sports in 1951.
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  • Olusosum dump site, Lagos.  Goverment run by the agency Lagos Waste Management Authority ( LAWMA ). One of 6 sites taking in general waste from all over Lagos.  E-waste is not allowed on site, but some does appear from the gerneral waste  collected all over Lagos.  People, are making a living out of shifting through the rubbish and selling their collections for recycling.Some of the scavengers live on site, too poor to pay for accommodation any where else. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Olusosum dump site, Lagos.  Goverment run by the agency Lagos Waste Management Authority ( LAWMA ). One of 6 sites taking in general waste from all over Lagos.  E-waste is not allowed on site, but some does appear from the gerneral waste  collected all over Lagos.  People, are making a living out of shifting through the rubbish and selling their collections for recycling.Some of the scavengers live on site, too poor to pay for accommodation any where else. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • TVs being line up, most of them has just been off-loaded from  container 4629416 from the UK. Some of the TVs, if not all, non-funtioning.  Alaba International Market, one of the largest markets for electronic goods in West Africa.  New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China.This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market.  A shop keeper is seen through broken TVs. New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market.  A young man is fixing and testing old broken tvs.<br />
New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market. A couple is passing by on a motor bike down a lane covered with crushed CRT glass. The nearby rubbish dump where  old printer circuit boards, old TV casings and lots of CRT glass can be forund lying around.<br />
New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market. The nearby rubbish dump where  old printer circuit boards, old TV casings and lots of CRT glass can be forund lying around.<br />
New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market. Kids showing what can be found on the neaby dump, old printer circuit boards, old TV casings and lots of CRT glass.<br />
New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. AThis picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market. Osta Anyche, a TV repair man at Alaba Market.  His speciality is Sony, Panasonic and Philips televisons. Osta Anyche, a TV repair man at Alaba Market.  His speciality is Sony, Panasonic and Philips televisons. New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market. Julius Paul, a TV repair man at Alaba Market.  His speciality is Sharp televisons. New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market. Julius Paul, a TV repair man at Alaba Market.  His speciality is Sharp televisons. New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Alaba International Market. One of the market's many technicians, his speciality is DVD players in the Alaba International Market.<br />
New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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