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  • Foliage seen through an office window on 25th June 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Giving a mysterious atmosphere through frosted glass, the plants and leaves interract with light outside.
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  • Foliage seen through an office window on 25th June 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Giving a mysterious atmosphere through frosted glass, the plants and leaves interract with light outside.
    20200625_window leaves_002.jpg
  • Foliage seen through an office window on 25th June 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Giving a mysterious atmosphere through frosted glass, the plants and leaves interract with light outside.
    20200625_window leaves_001.jpg
  • A person squeezes past a mysteriously abandoned Vauxhall car resting at 45 degrees, off the road but blocking a pavement on Ruskin Park, on 2nd February 2018, in Southwark, London, England. Because the car isnt blocking the highway, this is not a police matter - but causing an obstacle on the pavement makes it a council problem.
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  • A person squeezes past a mysteriously abandoned Vauxhall car resting at 45 degrees, off the road but blocking a pavement on Ruskin Park, on 2nd February 2018, in Southwark, London, England. Because the car isnt blocking the highway, this is not a police matter - but causing an obstacle on the pavement makes it a council problem.
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  • An elderly lady with a childs buggy walks in the road past a mysteriously abandoned Vauxhall car resting at 45 degrees, off the road but blocking a pavement on Ruskin Park, on 2nd February 2018, in Southwark, London, England. Because the car isnt blocking the highway, this is not a police matter - but causing an obstacle on the pavement makes it a council problem.
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  • A person squeezes past a mysteriously abandoned Vauxhall car resting at 45 degrees, off the road but blocking a pavement on Ruskin Park, on 2nd February 2018, in Southwark, London, England. Because the car isnt blocking the highway, this is not a police matter - but causing an obstacle on the pavement makes it a council problem.
    parked_car-05-02-02-2018.jpg
  • Pigeons mysteriously balance on a brick ledge just above the ground in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Pigeons mysteriously balance on a brick ledge just above the ground in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Pilgrim makes the ascent over rock and through mist and rain to the summit of Croagh Patrick. Ireland's patron saint Patrick fasted for 40 days on the summit in 441 AD. County Mayo, Ireland.
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  • Monks who live at Tashilunpo Monastery carry water cans for their daily needs, Shigatze city, Tibet
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  • Pilgrim makes the ascent over rock and through mist and rain to the summit of Croagh Patrick. Ireland's patron saint Patrick fasted for 40 days on the summit in 441 AD. County Mayo, Ireland.
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  • Pilgrimes and monks arrive at Tashilunpo Monastery, the seat of the Panchen Lama, as appointed by the Dalai Lama to pay homage and resspect to their annointed God, Shigatze city, Tibet.
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  • Crucifix in silhouette as the sun shines through the mist Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. It is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France The most beautiful villages of France association. Its position, originally selected for defense, perched on a steep cliff 100 m above the river has helped make the town one of the most popular tourist destinations in the department.
    20171231_saint cirq lapopie crucifix...jpg
  • With local coronavirus lockdown measures in place and Birmingham currently set at 'Tier 2' or 'high', shadows of people pass street art on boarded up shops which are closed in city centre on 26th October 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The three tier system in the UK has levels: 'medium', which includes the rule of six, 'high', which will cover most areas under current restrictions; and 'very high' for those areas with particularly high case numbers. Meanwhile there have been calls by politicians for a 'circuit breaker' complete lockdown to be announced to help the growing spread of the Covid-19 virus.
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  • Crucifix in silhouette as the sun shines through the mist St Cirq-Lapopie, France. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. It is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France The most beautiful villages of France association. Its position, originally selected for defense, perched on a steep cliff 100 m above the river has helped make the town one of the most popular tourist destinations in the department.
    20171231_saint cirq lapopie crucifix...jpg
  • Crow silhouette in a tree in Highgate Park in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Crow silhouette in a tree in Highgate Park in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Evening light under an archway creates an interesting light and dark as a figure walks past. East London.
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  • Crucifix in silhouette as the sun shines through the mist St Cirq-Lapopie, France. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. It is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France The most beautiful villages of France association. Its position, originally selected for defense, perched on a steep cliff 100 m above the river has helped make the town one of the most popular tourist destinations in the department.
    20171231_saint cirq lapopie crucifix...jpg
  • Detail of the famous car used in the hit American cartoon movie and tv show Scooby Doo.
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  • View of the City of London skyscrapers and building sites seen from Fenchurch Street, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The green glow comes from sunlight reflected from green tinted windows of one of the overlooking modern buildings.
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  • UK newspaper headlines reporting the unexplained death of media tycoon, Robert Maxwell on 6th November 1991 in London England. After Maxwells death in November that year, huge discrepancies in his companies finances were revealed, including his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund.
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  • A man stands next to a bright yellow beach hut and waits patiently for his family to come along on the seafront promenade at Whitstable, on 18th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
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  • Lone cyclist passing the City of London skyline and building work seen from Fenchurch Street, on 16th April 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Normally crowded with people London is like a ghost town as workers stay home under lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic. The green glow comes from sunlight reflected from green tinted windows of one of the overlooking modern buildings.
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  • Bricked over hole in ancient damaged plane tree on 28th June 2019 in Ceret, France. Plane trees were widely used in France in the early and mid-19th century, first planted along roadsides on the orders Napoleon to provide shade for troops and travellers moving through the country.
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  • The news that media tycoon Robert maxwell had drowned in the sea is reported in the Sun newspaper, on 6th November 1991, in London, England. In 1991, Maxwells body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having fallen overboard from his yacht.
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  • Media tycoon, Robert Maxwell during a press conference months before his suspicious death, on 30th April 1991 in London, England. Ian Robert Maxwell, MC born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 1923-1991 was a British media proprietor and Member of Parliament MP. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. After Maxwells death in November that year, huge discrepancies in his companies finances were revealed, including his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund.
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  • Dumped 1970s Ford Cortina found in the drained model boating pond on Hampstead Heath in London, United Kingdom. Civil engineers began draining the pond in August 2015 as part of the City of London’s £23million pond dams project.
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  • A boy draws sheeps intestines from a vat 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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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas drums and talks to the crowd.
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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas drums and talks to the crowd.
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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas drums and talks to the crowd.
    _MG_5479_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5475_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
    _MG_5384_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
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  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green06-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas drums and talks to the crowd.
    _MG_5468_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas drums and talks to the crowd.
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  • Drumming at a Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
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  • Young Brazilian woman girl dancing Passinho at a protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
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  • Young Brazilian favela residents. Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
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  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
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  • Young Brazilian woman talking to crowd with a megaphone. Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
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  • Young Brazilian male dancing Passinho at a protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5487_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas drums and talks to the crowd.
    _MG_5461_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5453_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5450_1.jpg
  • Drumming at a Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5439_1.jpg
  • Drumming at a Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5434_1.jpg
  • Young Brazilian woman girl dancing Passinho at a protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5427_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
    _MG_5389_1.jpg
  • Young Brazilian favela residents. Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5378_1.jpg
  • Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas. Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5371_1.jpg
  • Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community. Here, Maria de Fatima da Silva, mother of Douglas talks to the crowd with a megaphone.
    _MG_5351_1.jpg
  • Man in Spiderman costume talking to crowd with a megaphone. Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5307_1.jpg
  • Man in Spiderman costume talking to crowd with a megaphone. Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5299_1.jpg
  • Woman talking to crowd with a megaphone while young boy looks on. Protest in Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, in response to the mysterious death of professional dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, allegedly at the hands of the Police. The favela Pavao-Pavaozinho that sits in between Copacabana and Ipanema. These protests saw a rare solidarity between the mostly middle class black bloc movement and members of the favela community.
    _MG_5287_1.jpg
  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green36-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green28-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green23-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green19-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green11-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green24-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
    jack-ofthe_green07-01-05-2013_1.jpg
  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, a masked woman walks beneath a West End theatre poster for the Agatha Christie murder mystery, Deathdrop, as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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