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  • A middle-aged couple sleep on a blanket as a young boy digs a hole on the sandy beach at Scarborough. The generation gap is shown here with the older people unconscious after a day in sea air while the lad with the energy of youth puts much effort into shovelling sand from the growing hole. If they are related, they are oblivious as to the dangers of excavating holes on tidal beaches.
    sleeping_bathers-12-07-1992_1_1.jpg
  • A car owner attempts to shovel his way out of snow on a hill in South London. Bending down to remove the fallen snow from the road, he will again try to get a grip and friction of the slippery surface in order to make it up the gradient in Herne Hill. A van behind is already becoming impatient and is about to get past the stranded car and a passer-by looks on from the pavement, bemused. As the capital's infrastructure ground to a halt, with few trains and no buses for commuters to catch, walking and driving remained the only options.
    london_snow60-02-02_2009.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a lady shovels East German Lignite coal briketts left outside her home, on 1st June 1990, in Aue, Saxony, eastern Germany former DDR. The coal was delivered as Briketts and was either Lignite or Braunkohle, imported from either Poland or northern Czech Republic.
    DDR_coal_lady-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a brown coal delivery man stops to shovel his polluting fossil fuel into local cellars, on 15th June 1990, in Aue, Saxony. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008.
    GDR_coleman-15-06-1990.jpg
  • A Burmese woman shovelling gravel at a road construction project in Nyaung Shwe, Shan State, Myanmar on 8th November 2016
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  • Construction hoarding showing apartment interior and shovel with sand for making concrete. The poster is on a screen hiding the workings of construction and mess to street life outside. The mound of sand ballast and fine aggregate with the shovel embedded in the materials appear to be part of the same picture behind - the living space of a modern lifestyle high above the city whose floor is the same colour and hue of the sand.
    sand_hoarding02-27-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Informal sanitation workers, Ganesh and Pratik  sort and shovel waste on a land fill in the Govindpuri slum, New Delhi, India
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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
  • 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_beach02-25-11-2009_1_1.jpg
  • Garden shovel chair in a doorway in Termes, France. Termes is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.
    20180516_termes france_008.jpg
  • Gardening fork and spade shovel leaning up on a pile of manure, organic community farming project, Devon, UK
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  • Charcoal burners sit outside their home where they stay during the summer to make charcoal, Viscri, Romania
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  • Chen Yi He, Chinese Herbalist, outside the town of Meng Yang goes for an early morning  search for roots, bark, leaves, seeds, etc.  which he will then use for his medical practice, Xiao Meng Yang town, China
    chiherb_003_1.jpg
  • A man digs himself out of his house in the morning after the wind has blown sand and covered his doorway during the night.<br />
Chinguetti is slowly being buried by the sand from the Sahara Desert
    SFE_030103_0101.jpg
  • A mound of cement mixture and perfectly-shaped cubed blocks await setting into their places on newly laid-out pavements at Leicester Square, part of the widening of pavements during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th March 2021, in London, England.
    pavement_works03-29-03-2021.jpg
  • A mound of cement mixture and perfectly-shaped cubed blocks await setting into their places on newly laid-out pavements at Leicester Square, part of the widening of pavements during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 29th March 2021, in London, England.
    pavement_works01-29-03-2021.jpg
  • Charcoal burners working in the village of Viscri, Saxon Transylvania, Romania.
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  • A female ice swimmer gets dressed after a sauna and a brief dip in a hole in the ice, Tuomiojarvi, Jyvaskyla, Central Finland. Ice swimming takes place in a body of water with a frozen crust of ice, which requires a hole cutting in it.  In Finland, the ice swimming tradition has generally been connected with the sauna tradition and it is not seen as an ascetic or religious ritual, but as a way to cool off rapidly after staying in the sauna and as a stress relief.
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  • Brazilian men farm workers in a truck unloading corn maize into a storage area. Brazil is the largest producer of Sugar and Beef, then second for Soya and third for Maize. Many of the farms are in the state of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, they are often enournmous, stretching for miles kilometres. A lot of the crops are processed on site and kept in large warehouses or silos.
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  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovelling the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
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  • An inspection by the Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team looks closely at Victorian-era brick wall linings of the Fleet Rivers Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London, on 19th June 1994, in London, England. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles 720 km of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles 21,000 km of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_inspection-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen-19-06-1994_1_1.jpg
  • The 18th century historic Sir Cloudesley Shovell Corn Exchange clock 1771 in Rochester High Street, on 22nd July, in Rochester, England. The historic timepiece, a gift from Sir Cloudesley who was MP for Rochester from 1695 to 1701, has recently been restored at a cost of £40,000 after centuries of wear and tear took its toll and much of the clock had to be dismantled for safety reasons.
    rochester-04-22-07-2018.jpg
  • Snow shovels and snowy trees in the Winter landscape of Levi Fell in Finnish Lapland on 11th February 2018
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  • The 18th century historic Sir Cloudesley Shovell Corn Exchange clock 1771 in Rochester High Street, on 22nd July, in Rochester, England. The historic timepiece, a gift from Sir Cloudesley who was MP for Rochester from 1695 to 1701, has recently been restored at a cost of £40,000 after centuries of wear and tear took its toll and much of the clock had to be dismantled for safety reasons.
    rochester-03-22-07-2018.jpg
  • Workers use pitchforks and shovels to stir fermented grain ahead of alcohol extraction at a baijiu production facility that is part of the Shuijingfang museum, operated by Sichuan Swellfun Co., a unit of Diageo Plc in Chengdu, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. With less than 1 percent of baijiu, or white liquor, consumed abroad, Chinese distillers want to transform the fiery Chinese grain liquor into the new tequila for Americans and Europeans.
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  • Workers use pitchforks and shovels to stir fermented grain ahead of alcohol extraction at a baijiu production facility that is part of the Shuijingfang museum, operated by Sichuan Swellfun Co., a unit of Diageo Plc in Chengdu, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. With less than 1 percent of baijiu, or white liquor, consumed abroad, Chinese distillers want to transform the fiery Chinese grain liquor into the new tequila for Americans and Europeans.
    QS2016Archive_644.jpg
  • Part of the gold extracting process is to sieve the bigger pieces of gold out of the mudd made from crushed stones and water. Here gold dust is shining in the sun. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2821_1.jpg
  • Part of the gold extracting process is to sieve the bigger pieces of gold out of the mudd made from crushed stones and water. Here gold dust is shining in the sun. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2826_1.jpg
  • Part of the gold extracting process is to sieve the bigger pieces of gold out of the mud made from crushed stones and water. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2815 2_1.jpg
  • 4.5 gr of gold, with a price tag of ca. $126.00. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2790_1.jpg
  • A gold buyer is burning off the mercury used to extract the gold from the muddy water. He will then weigh the gold and pay around $28/gr. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2776_1.jpg
  • Muddy water containing gold dust. The gold is extracted using mercury which bind with gold. The small ball is 4.5 gr of gold worth $126.00, covered with mercury. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2759_1.jpg
  • Muddy water containing gold dust. The gold is extracted using mercury which bind with gold. The small ball is 4.5 gr of gold worth $126.00, covered with mercury. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2753_1.jpg
  • Part of the gold extraction processing is to crush the stones dug out. Here a mother is working with her baby on her back.  The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2751_1.jpg
  • Two men sleeping exhausted next to the entrance to a gold mine shaft. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2713_1.jpg
  • A man is relaxing next to a hole leading into a gold mine, another coming out back into the day light. The mines in the small community near Bolgatange in Northern Ghana are dug with shovels and spades and held up by timber, all very precarious. The mine shafts go deep into the ground and run along under the surrounding fields. The small community which has sprung up around the gold finds consists of poor people from all over Northern Ghana,most of them now stuck, not making much money and in dept to their gold dealers.
    IMG_2688_1.jpg
  • A man shovels coal while standing on the top of a truck at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
    QS2016Archive_308.jpg
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