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  • Peter Glazebrook has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with his wife Mary a giant onion and Swede. Peter Glazebrook has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant cabbage. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • A group of people wait wearing red jump suits to fly through the sky across the Penrhyn Quarry outside of Bethesda on Velocity, the longest zip wire in Europe. Bethesda, Bangor, Wales.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, pictured here with his daughter, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, pictured here with his daughter, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his marrow, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his marrow, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with a parsnip, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his swede, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his carrots, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Brothers Kevin, 32, and Gareth, 30, Fortey.  After their father, one of the founders of competitive giant vegetable growing, died the brothers  decided to continue the tradition and may even pass it on to their children. Kevin’s 4 year old son is growing giant sunflowers. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Visitors to the ancient site of Stonehenge celebrate the Summer Solstice on the morning of June 21st - the longest day - by dancing in circles while holding hands. The Stonehenge site is a place of pilgrimage for neo-druids and those following pagan or neo-pagan beliefs. The midsummer sunrise began attracting modern visitors in 1870s. Today the stones are owned by English Heritage, the guardians of ancient and historical structures. Most years, substantial police and barriers prevent on-lookers from approaching the stones but on this occasion, revellers were allowed to party long after the early 4.15am sunrise. Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire. Composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones it is one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world. Archaeologists think that the standing stones were erected between 2500 BC and 2000 BC and served as an outdoor observatory from where to watch the constellations. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his swede, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Carajas railway is privately owned and operated by Vale, it runs for 900km from Sao Luis, Maranhao to Paraepebas, Para, Brazil. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • Carajas railway is privately owned and operated by Vale, it runs for 900km from Sao Luis, Maranhao to Paraepebas, Para, Brazil. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • Carajas railway is privately owned and operated by Vale, it runs for 900km from Sao Luis, Maranhao to Paraepebas, Para, Brazil. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • Carajas railway is privately owned and operated by Vale, it runs for 900km from Sao Luis, Maranhao to Paraepebas, Para, Brazil. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • Carajas railway is privately owned and operated by Vale, it runs for 900km from Sao Luis, Maranhao to Paraepebas, Para, Brazil. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • Children selling food and drinks to passengers, the Carajas railway is privately owned and operated by Vale, it runs for 900km from Sao Luis, Maranhao to Paraepebas, Para, Brazil. The Carajas Open Cast Iron Ore mine is the largest iron mine in the World, estimates say the site can be mined at today's rates for another 400 years. In the Amazonian State of Para, Brazil, it is operated by the State owned Vale mining corporation, prevoously CVRD. The company has come under some controversy about the mine, and recently has started expanding the mine on the site of a series of ancient caves.
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  • A young boy directs his radio-controlled boat on the still waters of the river Thames early in the morning, on 14th July 1999, in Dorchester, England. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England 215 miles or 346 km long. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as River Thames or Isis until Dorchester.
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  • A wedding group stand on a grey day on Southend Pier, the worlds longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
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  • An early sun rises over the misty surface of the River Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire. We see a scene of golden light across the perfectly still waters, a landscape of peace and tranquillity. The mirror-like surface is at Dorchester-on-Thames, just above the Thame's confluence with the River Thames. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England (215 miles or 346 km long). It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester.
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  • As small figures of people walk in the distance, pages of a crumpled newspaper lies on the floor on Southend Pier, the worlds longest at a mile and a quarter, at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
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  • We Will Rock You. The ever popular musical at the Dominion Theater on Tottenham Court Road, Central London. Essentially the musical based on the rock band Queen. Written by Queen and Ben Elton. 8th year at London Dominion Theatre. Longest running show/event at the Dominion Theatre. 9th longest running show in the history of London West End. So far over 3000 performances. Average 620,000 tickets sold every year. 4,600,000 tickets sold
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  • A motor launch passes a narrow boat with parrot and dog in the early morning on a still River Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire. In the foreground is a caged parrot and a small Scotty dog. We see a scene of early misty light across the perfectly still waters, a landscape of peace and tranquillity. The mirror-like surface is at Dorchester-on-Thames, just above the Thame's confluence with the River Thames. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England (215 miles or 346 km long). It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • Garth Pier over the Menai Strait on 16th September 2020 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. Garth Pier is a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. At 1,500 feet in length, it is the second-longest pier in Wales, and the ninth longest in the British Isles. Designed by J.J. Webster of Westminster, London, the 1,550 feet (470 m) pier has cast iron columns, with the rest of the metal structure made in steel, including the handrails. The wooden deck has a series of octagonal kiosks with roofs, plus street lighting, which lead to a pontoon landing stage for pleasure steamers on the Menai Strait.
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  • People outside the entrance to the Royal Academy for the Summer Show in London, United Kingdom. The Summer Exhibition is an open art exhibition held annually by the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly in central London, England, during the months of June, July, and August. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, architectural designs and models, and is the largest and most popular open exhibition in the UK. It is also the longest continuously staged exibition of contemporary art in the world.
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  • Crowd listen as Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
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  • Crowd listen as Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
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  • Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
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  • Crowd listen as Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
    20190424_extinction rebellion dianne...jpg
  • Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
    20190424_extinction rebellion dianne...jpg
  • Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
    20190424_extinction rebellion dianne...jpg
  • Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
    20190424_extinction rebellion dianne...jpg
  • Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
    20190424_extinction rebellion dianne...jpg
  • Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
    20190424_extinction rebellion dianne...jpg
  • Labour MP Dianne Abbott speaks to and takes questions from climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group at Parliament Square who are in protest that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet, on 24th April 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. Diane Abbott is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the countrys first black MP as well as the longest serving black MP in the House of Commons.
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  • The cable car moves across the top of the Tees Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The Transporter Bridge is the longest remaining transporter in the world at 851 feet.
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  • White horses grazing in a field in the village of Conistone in Wharfedale, United Kingdom on 23rd May 2018. Wharfedale is the valley of the river Wharfe and is the longest valley dales valleys in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice mid-summer and longest day at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. According to pagans, the Stonehenge is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
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  • A cartoon character promotes chips outside the now vacant Britannia pub on 17th September 2016, on the Eastern Esplanade, at Southend, Essex, England. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
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  • Visitors to a holiday trinket shop look at the cheap items on sale at this traditional seafront memento shop on Pier Hill at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
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  • With a picture of a £2.95 slice of apple pie underneath, a banner tells customers that a seedy cafe is still open, on 17th September 2016, on the Western Esplanade, at Southend, Essex, England. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
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  • A seascape of a seafront business hut on the Western Esplanade, on 17th September 2016, at Southend, Essex, England. Under a grey sky on the Thames river estuary as it widens before flowing into the English Channel, steps lead down into the water at high-tide. Southend-on-Sea is a seaside town on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles 64 km east of central London. In its heyday, the working class visited from the capital when train transport allowed them to enjoy its beaches and the worlds longest pier. Its splendour faded on the advent of package holidays to Spain etc.
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  • A symmetrical reflection of afternoon sunbathers realaxing on the bank of the Douro river with the panorama of the Ponte de Dom Luis I bridge and the city of Porto behind, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. The Dom Luís I or Luiz I Bridge is a double-decked metal arch bridge that spans the Douro River between the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal. At the time of construction its span of 172 m was the longest of its type in the world.
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  • A morning aerial panorama of a tram crossing the Ponte de Dom Luis I bridge with the city of Porto behind on the River Douro and a foreground of warehouse rooftops, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. The Dom Luís I or Luiz I Bridge is a double-decked metal arch bridge that spans the Douro River between the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal. At the time of construction its span of 172 m was the longest of its type in the world.
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  • Mounted troops before the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London, the capital's ancient financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century. This is the pageant's 800th birthday and the 250 year-old horse-drawn guided State Coach will be pulled through the medieval streets with the newly-elected Mayor along with 7,000 others. This first took place in 1215 making it the oldest and longest civil procession in the world which survived both Bubonic plague and the Blitz.
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  • A man asleep inside his shop in the Souk in Aleppo, Syria. The Souk is the longest covered market in the Middle East and parts can be dated to Roman times. The entire covered Souk can be dated from the sixteenth century. Goods ranging from food to jewellery can be purchased here.
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  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
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  • The Chinese words Kung Hei Fat Choi or Happy New Year with cartoon characters outside Bank of China building, Hong Kong. A local businessman stops to seemingly talk with one of the boy characters that appear to be looking straight at the man, while pointing a wand to wish him well. Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions.
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  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seen dancing with a Tory Party official during the 1990 Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Thatcher is wearing a favourite black and red ball gown and is the centre of attention for delegates and media. She is seen with Joy, Babs and Teddie - otherwise known as the Beverly Sisters entertainers, the  longest surviving vocal group of all time without a change in the line up. The sisters kick their legs up in the air dancing the Charleston (though not in unison) but Mrs Thatcher in her long dress declines and merely stands straight-legged. They are on the dance floor and Tory party officials are enjoying the moment as their PM relishes the moment.
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  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford (L), a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB waves to crowds during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
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  • Newly-elected Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford (L), a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show35-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The white helmets of the Royal Marines who march through the City of London during the annual Lord Mayor's Show. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show31-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A medic from the Air Ambulance service demonstrates the rescusitation with a mannequin on a float passing  the newly-elected Lord Mayor of London during the Lord Mayor's Show. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show21-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A fuel tanker with the union jack and helping top make Britain greater passes the Mansion House during the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show20-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford with wife and Mayoress Claire and daughter Thea, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show18-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Newly-elected Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford (L), a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB during the Lord Mayor's Show. He is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show17-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The Lord Mayor's carriage parades through Cornhill during the Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, a merchant banker with Swedish bank SEB is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district. The role ensured the King had an ally within the prosperous enclave.
    lord_mayors_show13-10-11-2012.jpg
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