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The Big Society
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The Big Society
©Si Barber Moral rights asserted.
The Big Society
©Si Barber Moral rights asserted.
The Big Society
©Si Barber Moral rights asserted.
The Big Society
©Si Barber Moral rights asserted.
The Big Society
©Si Barber Moral rights asserted.
G's celery harvest, Cambridgeshire.
Workers at G’s Vegetables in Cambridgeshire, UK reaping the 2019 celery harvest.
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At the Knicat Cafe, Downham Market,Norfolk.
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Mummers recreating the legend of St George & the Dragon on St George’s Day, Downham Market, Norfolk. The dragon is played by the town's mayor, Frank Daymond, St George by Councillor David Sharman.
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Zydrunas & Vilma, butchers from Lithuania receive their first consignment of slaughtered meat at their newly opened shop in King's Lynn, Norfolk.
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Cliff Carnival Parade, Navenby,Lincolnshire
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Prospect House, Southery, Norfolk. Built in 1907 for a farm manager and their family in such a way that the land in cultivation and in particular its workers could be continually observed. The home was ultimately abandoned due to subsidence which was a fate that similar properties in the Fens suffered. In subsequent years such buildings were reinforced with concrete underpinnings to attenuate the effects of the wet land, but often to little effect.
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A demonstration against the prorogation of Parliament meets some opposition in King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
In defiance of the clear and unequivocal instruction by the British electorate to leave the European Union in the 2016 Referendum, opponents, many with undeclared interests in maintaining the federal relationship sought to overturn the democratic will of the country and reverse the decision to leave. Despite the efforts of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson to avoid a no deal Brexit many obstacles were put in his way. As such, with the October 31st deadline for leaving looming, on September 10th 2019 he prorogued Parliament which effectively cancelled the sitting of the House and further discussion on the issue. This led to demonstrations across the nation and was subsequently declared unlawful. As a result, Parliament resumed sitting on September 25, 2019.
A Tullos threshing machine up for sale at a dispersal auction of the late Jessie Watson, farmer of Littleport, Cambridgeshire. Mr Watson purchased the vehicle in 1946 and paid for it to be transported to the Fens by train from Aberdeen, Scotland. Then it required three workers to operate it and another to tow it by tractor. Today, its tasks can be completed by one person.
Migrants in Wisbech Cambridgeshire.
migrant workers seeking work in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
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After his resignation as prime minister in September 2022, Boris Johnson's portrait is removed from the wall and Winston Churchill resumes his place of prominence at King's Lynn Conservative Club, Norfolk.
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Shippea Hill rail station in Cambridgeshire. The request-only stop was once famous for being the least used station in Britain. In latter years it became more popular as migrant workers commuted from the villages surrounding the Ely interchange to catch the 07.17 train for the nine minute ride to Shippea Hill where they would be mini-bussed to the packhouses of the Fens which surround the towns of Soham and Mildenhall. However, during the Covid pandemic demand fell away as many workers returned to their countries of origin when it was thought that having the jab would become a condition of employment.
