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  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
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  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Low sun at sundown over fields in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150916_yorkshire hambleton hills s...jpg
  • Three girls sunbathing on the River Thames beach on the Southbank, London, UK. At low tide this sandy area becomes almost like a coastal gathering spot with people using the water's edge as if the seaside. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Three girls sunbathing on the River Thames beach on the Southbank, London, UK. At low tide this sandy area becomes almost like a coastal gathering spot with people using the water's edge as if the seaside. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20130713_south bank girls sunbathing...jpg
  • A mudlarker looks for historical items lying in the mud and silt of the river Thames at low tide, on 30th October 2017, at Queenhithe, the City of London, England. Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient, but now disused, dock which derives from the Queens Dock, or Queens Quay, which was probably a Roman dock or small harbour. The dock existed during the period when the Wessex king, Alfred the Great, re-established the City of London, circa 886 AD.
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  • A sculptor shapes the female form of an oversized woman sunbather  made from sand on the Thames foreshore on London's South Bank. Working with great care and patience  the artist who is a well-known character on this stretch of low-tide beach uses a yellow bucket and a wide shovel to dig  then work the soft sand into this shape of a giant reclining female who apparently wears a bikini and a hat or some kind. Come the changing tide however  his showcase will disappear beneath the capital's river waters that will soon lap against the south bank riverside at Gabriel's Wharf.
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  • A sculptor shapes the female form of an oversized woman sunbather  made from sand on the Thames foreshore on London's South Bank. Working with great care and patience  the artist who is a well-known character on this stretch of low-tide beach uses a yellow bucket and a wide shovel to dig  then work the soft sand into this shape of a giant reclining female who apparently wears a bikini and a hat or some kind. Come the changing tide however  his showcase will disappear beneath the capital's river waters that will soon lap against the south bank riverside at Gabriel's Wharf.
    thames_beach01-25-11-2009_1_1.jpg
  • Boats at low tide in Folkestone, England, United Kingdom. Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs and was an important harbour and shipping port for most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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  • The silhouette of a figure walking through a park, with a foggy residential street in the background. The menacing figure looks ghostly, a menacing and eerie scene that seems to threaten the safety of approaching others. Freezing fog lies in the street in this south London suburb in the depths of mid-winter. We can't see his face or features and his ominous and sinister shape guarantees his anonymity.
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  • A chunk of prime yellow fin tuna fish steak lies after filleting on a table in a processing factory on the island of Himmafushi, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
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  • The head of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives105-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Wildflowers growing on the machair at Cnip, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland on 16 July 2018. Machair is a Gaelic word meaning fertile low lying grassy plain, one of the rarest habitats in Europe. Machair only occurs on exposed western coasts of Scotland and Ireland - in the Outer Hebrides they run up the western shores of Uist, Harris and Lewis
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  • Wildflowers growing on the machair at Cnip, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland on 16 July 2018. Machair is a Gaelic word meaning fertile low lying grassy plain, one of the rarest habitats in Europe. Machair only occurs on exposed western coasts of Scotland and Ireland - in the Outer Hebrides they run up the western shores of Uist, Harris and Lewis
    DSCF2311cc_1.jpg
  • Wildflowers growing on the machair at Cnip, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland on 16 July 2018. Machair is a Gaelic word meaning fertile low lying grassy plain, one of the rarest habitats in Europe. Machair only occurs on exposed western coasts of Scotland and Ireland - in the Outer Hebrides they run up the western shores of Uist, Harris and Lewis
    DSCF2327cc_1.jpg
  • Red poppies in a field in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150918_yorkshire red poppies_B.jpg
  • Red poppies in a field in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150918_yorkshire red poppies_C.jpg
  • Red poppies in a field in the Hambleton Hills, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills which form the western edge of the North York Moors. They are the eastern boundary of the low lying Vale of Mowbray.
    20150918_yorkshire red poppies_A.jpg
  • In the former British railway village of Paranapiacaba, it is said that football was introduced to Brazil by Charles Miller. Here boys play football in the low lying fog that regularly blankets the village.
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  • Palm trees in the Backwaters of Ayamenam, Kerala.The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range..The Kerala Backwaters are a network of interconnected canals, rivers, lakes and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than 900 km of waterways, and sometimes compared to the American Bayou.[1] In the midst of this landscape there are a number of towns and cities, which serve as the starting and end points of backwater cruises
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  • A man walks accross a bridge over the backwaters in Ayamenam in Kerala<br />
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The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.<br />
The Kerala Backwaters are a network of interconnected canals, rivers, lakes and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than 900 km of waterways, and sometimes compared to the American Bayou.[1] In the midst of this landscape there are a number of towns and cities, which serve as the starting and end points of backwater cruises
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  • Routine maintenance at the automated Coquet Lighthouse, Northumberland, UK. Coquet Island is a small low tract of green pastureland lying close inshore off the Northumberland coast. The new automated revolving car-headlight arrays are kept lit 24 hours a day. Coquet Lighthouse was automated in 1990 and all Trinity House lighthouses have been automated since November 1998.
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  • A boat on the Backwaters of Ayamenam, Kerala.The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range..The Kerala Backwaters are a network of interconnected canals, rivers, lakes and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than 900 km of waterways, and sometimes compared to the American Bayou.[1] In the midst of this landscape there are a number of towns and cities, which serve as the starting and end points of backwater cruises
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  • Traditional houseboats on the backwaters as Kerala, India<br />
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The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.<br />
The Kerala Backwaters are a network of interconnected canals, rivers, lakes and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than 900 km of waterways, and sometimes compared to the American Bayou.[1] In the midst of this landscape there are a number of towns and cities, which serve as the starting and end points of backwater cruises
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  • A duckfarmer punts his way downstream with his flock, Ayamenam, Kerala, India..The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range..The Kerala Backwaters are a network of interconnected canals, rivers, lakes and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than 900 km of waterways, and sometimes compared to the American Bayou.[1] In the midst of this landscape there are a number of towns and cities, which serve as the starting and end points of backwater cruises
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  • An officer from the Atlanta Police Department puts his boot on a man's chest who is lying still in the gutter on the street. He and another person have been fighting in the downtown area and the officer has arrived in his patrol car after reports that a street brawl needed his interception. The officer's belt with a gun secured in its holster  can be seen from a low ground level angle. It is a desolate and sinister place and the lights from a passing car and the green fluorescent glow from a parking lot (car park) is in the background. The police officer needs to calm the violent situation, pacifying the two men before the matter gets out of hand and preventing him from causing more trouble, he places his weight on the thorax to pin the male on the ground.
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  • One of Hong Ngich Nguyen's three sons asleep on a hammock at home. Hong (27) lives with her husband, three young sons and parents-in-law in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta.
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  • Mai Thi Chau (49) and her husband Van Trinh Nguyen (50) are farmers and natural honey collectors in Number 13 Village, Nguyen Phich commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. They have four adult children who have moved to the city for work. Rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change are threatening the farming and fishing-dependent communities in the low-lying Delta. Oxfam and partners are supporting some of the province’s poorest and most vulnerable families by introducing renewable energy systems to save them time and money and help them to develop sustainably. Pictured: Mai Thi Chau holding some of the charcoal used for cooking. Mai says "Sometimes I make charcoal but it’s very hard work – I have to go to the forest, chop wood and burn it all night."
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  • Giao Kim Ly and her grandaughter at home in Number 18 village, Nguyen Phich commune in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Giao Kim Ly and her husband live with two of their five children and four grandchildren in the low-lying Delta where rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change are threatening the farming and fishing-dependent communities. Oxfam and partners are supporting some of the province’s poorest and most vulnerable families by introducing renewable energy systems to save them time and money and help them to develop sustainably.
    DSCF6512cc_1.jpg
  • Mai Thi Chau (49) and her husband Van Trinh Nguyen (50) are farmers and natural honey collectors in Number 13 Village, Nguyen Phich commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. They have four adult children who have moved to the city for work. Rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change are threatening the farming and fishing-dependent communities in the low-lying Delta. Oxfam and partners are supporting some of the province’s poorest and most vulnerable families by introducing renewable energy systems to save them time and money and help them to develop sustainably. Pictured: Mai Thi Chau holding some of the charcoal used for cooking. Mai says "Sometimes I make charcoal but it’s very hard work – I have to go to the forest, chop wood and burn it all night."
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  • Kum Van Nguyen (48) is a farmer in Number 18 Village, Nguyen Phich commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. He lives with his wife Giau Kim Ly, two of their five children and four grandchildren. Rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change are threatening the farming and fishing-dependent communities in the low-lying Delta. Oxfam and partners are supporting some of the province’s poorest and most vulnerable families by introducing renewable energy systems to save them time and money and help them to develop sustainably. Pictured: Kum Van Nguyen with his pigs used for environmentally friendly biogas production - the biogas system produces all the gas they need for cooking and they no longer spend lots of time collecting wood for burning and making charcoal.
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  • Sleeping pigs belonging to farmer Kum Van Nguyen (48) in Number 18 Village, Nguyen Phich commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. He lives with his wife Giau Kim Ly, two of their five children and four grandchildren. Rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change are threatening the farming and fishing-dependent communities in the low-lying Delta. Oxfam and partners are supporting some of the province’s poorest and most vulnerable families by introducing renewable energy systems to save them time and money and help them to develop sustainably.
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  • Hien Thi Tran (55) lives with her extended family in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta. Hien says: “When we first moved to this farm 10 years ago it was good living. But now it gets worse and worse because the sea keeps flooding in. Every year our rice fields flood and sometimes the water even comes into the house as high as my knee. We have to pump it out. We used to grow rice and vegetables but for the last few years this has been impossible – the soil is very salty."
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  • Hong Ngich Nguyen (27) making a fishing net at home in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta where she lives with her husband, three young sons and parents-in-law. Hong can make two fishing nets a day and sells them for 25,000 dong (73p) each. However, it’s not regular work as it depends on when the boat owner needs new nets. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta.
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  • A coastal dyke built to prevent salt water intrusion caused by high tides in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The coastal villages in the low-lying Delta are extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities.
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  • Hien Thi Tran (55) lives with her extended family in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta. Hien says: “When we first moved to this farm 10 years ago it was good living. But now it gets worse and worse because the sea keeps flooding in. Every year our rice fields flood and sometimes the water even comes into the house as high as my knee. We have to pump it out. We used to grow rice and vegetables but for the last few years this has been impossible – the soil is very salty."
    A0031794cc_1.jpg
  • A female tourist reads from a guidebook while her male companion lies on a low wall in the Piazza dei Signori, Verona, Italy
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  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
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  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin09-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin08-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin06-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin04-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin02-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • WW2-era concrete pillbox defence structure lies on the beach after coastal erosion at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. As part of Britain's coastal defences in the 1940s, beaches were mined and concrete bunkers  installed as lookouts facing out so sea and in the event of an invasion by German forces, as firing positions. Overhead, the Luftwaffe flew on their way to London during the Blitzkrieg. More recently, they have fallen into the sea after coastal erosion continues to wash the sedimentary soil (from the Eocene geological epoch of 52-51 million years ago) into the tidal waters of the Thames estuary. Chain Home Low Station at Warden Point was built in 1941 it stood on top of the cliffs then. Erosion of cliffs caused the remaining buildings to fall into the sea in the 1970s.
    ww2_ruin01-22-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Locals walk over the exposed stone walls of the once-thriving village of Ashopton that now lies at the bottom of Ladybower reservoir, Derbyshire, England. Remains of the village were revealed during the drought of 1989 the levels of water dropped from the country's reservoirs as rainfall failed in the heatwave while demand peaked in the cities such as Sheffield. The villages of Derwent & Ashopton were submerged when the valley was flooded, between 1943 & 1945, amid much controversy. Derwent church tower was left standing at first, but demolished in 1947 for safety reasons. The remains of the buildings are still visible when the water is very low, as it was in 1989.
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  • An abandoned coastal fishing boat lies askew in waters of Inverscaddle Bay, Ardgour, Scotland. On a bleak and grey summer evening, with low clouds descending on surrounding hills and mountains, we see the still waters of this Scottish lake lapping against the hull of this vessel that appears to have ended its days washed up on the beach. It is low-tide because this waterway connects to the wider sea of the Western Isles. Fisheries have always been an important sector of Scottish communities' lives so when there is an economic recession for example, the livelihoods of those employed on-board trawlers and boats like these are first hit.
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