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  • 28 August 2012. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. <br />
Eye on the storm. Robert Green, survivor of Hurricane Katrina and resident of the Lower 9th Ward sits outside his Brad Pitt inspired 'Make It Right' foundation home watching the first feeder bands of Hurricane Isaac come ashore. He and his family are not evacuating. Mr Green lost his mother and young granddaughter during Hurricane Katrina. Both drowned and he and his surviving family members weathered the storm for 7 hours on the roof of their wrecked house. The 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow and with a storm lurking in the Gulf Mr Green admits to having chills as he remembers the tragedy of 7 years ago.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2012. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. <br />
Eye on the storm. Robert Green, survivor of Hurricane Katrina and resident of the Lower 9th Ward sits outside his Brad Pitt inspired 'Make It Right' foundation home watching the first feeder bands of Hurricane Isaac come ashore. He and his family are not evacuating. Mr Green lost his mother and young granddaughter during Hurricane Katrina. Both drowned and he and his surviving family members weathered the storm for 7 hours on the roof of their wrecked house. The 7th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow and with a storm lurking in the Gulf Mr Green admits to having chills as he remembers the tragedy of 7 years ago.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 08 November 2020. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, The Somme, Picardy, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.<br />
The Battle of the Somme was the regiment's first major engagement, and during an assault that lasted approximately 30 minutes the regiment was all but wiped out. Purchased in 1921 by the people of Newfoundland, the memorial site is the largest battalion memorial on the Western Front, and the largest area of the Somme battlefield that has been preserved. Along with preserved trench lines, there are a number of memorials and cemeteries contained within the site. Opened by British Field Marshal Earl Haig in 1925, the memorial site is one of only two National Historic Sites of Canada located outside of Canada.<br />
The site also contains a number of memorials as well as four cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; that of Y Ravine Cemetery, Hawthorn Ridge Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 and the mass burial site of Hunter's Cemetery.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance034.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance028.jpg
  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smuggler's Paradise. Interior of a seemingly deserted shack hidden in the sand dunes of a beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. The shack appear to have been recently used and contains 2 steel framed beds and another bed with a stinking mattress. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Bleriot Plage, Calais, France.<br />
Andy lines, senior reporter for the Daily Mirror on Bleriot Plage, one of the many beaches close to the main ferry terminal in Calais where migrants often make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    26june20-Calais migrant crisis034.jpg
  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Residents gather at the hurricane Katrina memorial in the Lower 9th Ward to remember those who perished when the industrial canal levee breached less than a mile from where they stand. Many residents are struggling to return to the still derelict and decimated Lower 9th Ward.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 August, 2005. New Orleans Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. <br />
Hundreds of desperate evacuees from the lower 9th ward await transportation to the Superdome where approximately 20,000 storm evacuees are housed.<br />
Photo Credit: Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 August, 2005. New Orleans Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. <br />
Hundreds of desperate evacuees from the lower 9th ward await transportation to the Superdome where approximately 20,000 storm evacuees are housed.<br />
Photo Credit: Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    30aug05-Hurricane Katrina038.JPG
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance025.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance023.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance020.jpg
  • 26 June 2020. Calais, France.<br />
Thousands of kilometres of high security fencing rings many of the key cross channel infrastructure in and around calais and Sangatte in even increasing efforts to deter migrants from illegally making the crossing between France and Britain.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    26june20-Calais migrant crisis028.jpg
  • 26 June 2020. Bleriot Plage, Calais, France.<br />
One of the many beaches close to the main ferry terminal in Calais where migrants often make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    26june20-Calais migrant crisis013.jpg
  • 26 June 2020. Zone des Dunes, refugee camp, Calais, France.<br />
'See you in UK!' Graffiti painted on a train signalling control box close to Zone des Dunes refugee camp in Calais. Several tented refugee camps have cropped up to replace the notorious 'Jungle' camp which was dismantled by French authorities in October and November 2016. Migrants assembling in the Zone are making often desperate attempts to cross the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    26june20-Calais migrant crisis002.jpg
  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    29aug07-katrina 2nd anniversary072.JPG
  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Californian women of 'Indigo Eyes' provide a bit of relief from the sadness. The women play music and sign religious songs in the mostly deserted, empty remains of the  decimated Lower 9th Ward. They stopped and wandered in the gutted Mt Carmel Church. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August  2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore, the army commander who came to New Orleans and took charge during the darkest days following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina tries to answer questions from tearful former resident Valeria Schexnayder. Honore revisits the mainly deserted, still decimated Lower 9th Ward on the Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown with grass growing in the streets. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Robert Lynn Green Sr  sits on the steps of 1826 Tennessee Street in front of his trailer in the Lower 9th Ward. The steps are all that remain of his house after it was deluged by the levee breach just blocks from the steps. Robert lost his mother and grand daughter at the house when they perished in the terrible flooding. He lost hold of his grand daughter in the swirling floods. She was drowned. His mother was not found for 4 months when her skeleton was discovered in what remained of his washed away house. Robert hopes to rebuild. Many residents are struggling to return to the still derelict and decimated Lower 9th Ward.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    29aug07-katrina 2nd anniversary022.JPG
  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    29aug07-katrina 2nd anniversary016.JPG
  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Graffiti tags the industrial canal levee at the same spot where the levee breached during hurricane Katrina killing hundreds of New Orleanians. The simple word, 'Hindsight' mirrors the attitude of many residents struggling to return to the still derelict and decimated Lower 9th Ward.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Residents gather at the hurricane Katrina memorial in the Lower 9th Ward to remember those who perished when the industrial canal levee breached less than a mile from where they stand. Children laid teddy bears in memory of the children who perished. Many residents are struggling to return to the still derelict and decimated Lower 9th Ward.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    29aug07-katrina 2nd anniversary003.JPG
  • 04 August 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Repass after the Funeral - St Anne Street.  Friends and relatives of three young men gunned down late at night on this gritty city street on July 28th pay their respects and celebrate their lives in a repass followed by a Second line celebration, a musical tradition, march and dance led by the Rebirth Brass Band. 4 men were cruelly gunned down that night in one incident as crime spirals out of control in New Orleans. Three of the victims, all brothers buried today are Kadeem Stephen (16yrs), Kendall Stephen (21yrs) and Kareem Stephen (also 16yrs). Friends and relatives, many wearing RIP t-shirts ate, drank and gathered to remember the young victims of this heinous crime. Candles are lit and placed on an RIP t-shirt in the street in memorial to the young men at the spot they died.
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  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance056.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance054.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance052.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance051.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance050.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance049.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, The Somme, Picardy, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.<br />
The Battle of the Somme was the regiment's first major engagement, and during an assault that lasted approximately 30 minutes the regiment was all but wiped out. Purchased in 1921 by the people of Newfoundland, the memorial site is the largest battalion memorial on the Western Front, and the largest area of the Somme battlefield that has been preserved. Along with preserved trench lines, there are a number of memorials and cemeteries contained within the site. Opened by British Field Marshal Earl Haig in 1925, the memorial site is one of only two National Historic Sites of Canada located outside of Canada.<br />
The site also contains a number of memorials as well as four cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; that of Y Ravine Cemetery, Hawthorn Ridge Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 and the mass burial site of Hunter's Cemetery.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance036.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance032.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Museum and Memorial, Somme, Picardy, France. <br />
Memorial Register. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance031.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance030.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance026.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance024.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance022.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance021.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance019.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance018.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance017.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Thiepval Memorial, The Somme, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who perished in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. The visitors' centre opened in 2004. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".<br />
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme battles between July 1915 and March 1918<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance016.jpg
  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smugglers' Paradise. Deserted shacks and a deserted caravan are hidden in the sand dunes of a remote beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smugglers' Paradise. A gravel road leads to deserted shacks and a deserted caravan hidden in the sand dunes of a beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smugglers' Paradise. Perhaps an illegal alien? A sticker seen on the outside of an old caravan likely used by smugglers and migrants hidden in dunes at a beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smugglers' Paradise. Deserted shacks and a deserted caravan are hidden in the sand dunes of a beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smuggler's Paradise. Interior of a seemingly deserted old caravan hidden in the sand dunes of a beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. The caravan appears to have been recently used with cardboard laid on the ground for bedding and passport photos discovered on the sandy floor. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Deserted shacks and a deserted caravan are hidden in the sand dunes of a beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smuggler's Paradise. Interior of a seemingly deserted old caravan hidden in the sand dunes of a beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. The caravan appears to have been recently used with cardboard laid on the ground for bedding and passport photos discovered on the sandy floor. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smugglers' paradise. A deserted beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises hidden in the sand dunes have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other remote beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smugglers' paradise. A deserted beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises hidden in the sand dunes have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other remote beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 June 2020. South of Calais, France.<br />
Smugglers' paradise. A deserted beach south of Calais where local police claim migrants often attempt the treacherous crossing to Great Britain. Items found in a shack and caravan including passport photos, empty water bottles, mattresses and cardboard used as bedding clearly indicate the seemingly derelict premises hidden in the sand dunes have recently been used. The location is reasonably remote and backs onto farmland. A gravel access road makes this a prime location for ruthless criminal gangs to drop migrants paying as much as €5,000 for a ticket on an inflatable dinghy with a small outboard motor and less for surfboards and inflatable kayaks. Local police claim it is from here and other remote beaches in the region that migrants often set out to make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 10 June 2020. <br />
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Collect Photo from VCSM Escaut rescue craft (French Coastguard) between Calais and Dover, France.<br />
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A spokesman for France’s Channel Prefecture said the photo was shot on Wednesday June 10, three miles off Calais.<br />
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‘Three men and a woman were attempting to paddle across the channel on two windsurf boards that had been tied together with rope,’ adding: ‘Shovels were being used as oars.’<br />
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A Mayday was put out by a Dunkirk Seaways ferry after the group was spotted at 6.35am, in a relatively calm sea. <br />
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The VCSM Escaut rescue craft attended the scene, and rescued the migrants, who were all suffering from mild hypothermia. <br />
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The group was returned to France, and later ‘processed’ by Border Police, who could provide no further details of what happened to them.<br />
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The Prefecture spokesman said migrants were increasingly using makeshift crafts because of the difficulty of getting hold of motorboats.<br />
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So far in June, 250 migrants have reached Britain by boat - including a record single-day figure of 166.<br />
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Photo© courtesy; French Coast Guard/VCSM Escaut rescue craft/Channel Prefecture provided to Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Bleriot Plage, Calais, France.<br />
Andy lines, senior reporter for the Daily Mirror on Bleriot Plage, one of the many beaches close to the main ferry terminal in Calais where migrants often make desperate and dangerous attempts to cross one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Migrants are crossing the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Calais, France.<br />
Decathlon sports supply store in Calais. It is alleged migrants are supplied with tents and other essential survival equipment from Decathlon and other sporting equipment stores in the region. Ruthless Albanian gangs running migrant camps allegedly provide kayaks, surf boards and even paddling pools which desperate migrants pay way over the top prices to the smugglers for in their often desperate and dangerous attempts to cross the English Channel (La Manche) as they   seek to make better lives for themselves in Britain.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Zone des Dunes, refugee camp, Calais, France.<br />
The Zone des Dunes refugee camp in Calais. Several tented refugee camps have cropped up to replace the notorious 'Jungle' camp which was dismantled by French authorities in October and November 2016. The Zone borders land where the Jungle once housed as many as 10,000 migrants desperately seeking any way possible to get to Britain. It is claimed that the Zone is controlled by Albanian criminal gangs exploiting migrants often paying as much as €5,000 to make the illegal crossing between France and Britain. Many migrants are now making desperate and dangerous attempts to cross the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Zone des Dunes, refugee camp, Calais, France.<br />
The Zone des Dunes refugee camp in Calais. Several tented refugee camps have cropped up to replace the notorious 'Jungle' camp which was dismantled by French authorities in October and November 2016. The Zone borders land where the Jungle once housed as many as 10,000 migrants desperately seeking any way possible to get to Britain. It is claimed that the Zone is controlled by Albanian criminal gangs exploiting migrants often paying as much as €5,000 to make the illegal crossing between France and Britain. Many migrants are now making desperate and dangerous attempts to cross the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, kayak, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Zone des Dunes, refugee camp, Calais, France.<br />
A young refugee mother sits at the side of the road with her young 2 year old son close to the tented refugee camp at Zone des Dunes in Calais, a relatively new refugee camp which sprang up just outside the notorious 'Jungle' camp which was closed down by authorities. The mother who did not wish to be named is a refugee from war torn Eritrea. She made her way overland from Eritrea to Sudan and from Sudan through what she described as extremely dangerous Libya. From Libya she was able to get on a boat to Italy where she then boarded a train to Austria and eventually Germany where her son was born. The young mother claimed conditions in Germany were atrocious and she left for France where she has lived in the refugee camp at Calais for almost 6 months. Her dream is to find safety and sanctuary for herself and her little boy in the United Kingdom. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Zone des Dunes, refugee camp, Calais, France.<br />
A young refugee mother sits at the side of the road with her young 2 year old son close to the tented refugee camp at Zone des Dunes in Calais, a relatively new refugee camp which sprang up just outside the notorious 'Jungle' camp which was closed down by authorities. The mother who did not wish to be named is a refugee from war torn Eritrea. She made her way overland from Eritrea to Sudan and from Sudan through what she described as extremely dangerous Libya. From Libya she was able to get on a boat to Italy where she then boarded a train to Austria and eventually Germany where her son was born. The young mother claimed conditions in Germany were atrocious and she left for France where she has lived in the refugee camp at Calais for almost 6 months. Her dream is to find safety and sanctuary for herself and her little boy in the United Kingdom. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Zone des Dunes, refugee camp, Calais, France.<br />
'See you in UK!' Graffiti painted on a train signalling control box close to Zone des Dunes refugee camp in Calais. Several tented refugee camps have cropped up to replace the notorious 'Jungle' camp which was dismantled by French authorities in October and November 2016. Migrants assembling in the Zone are making often desperate attempts to cross the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 26 June 2020. Zone des Dunes, refugee camp, Calais, France.<br />
'See you in UK!' Graffiti painted on a train signalling control box close to Zone des Dunes refugee camp in Calais. Several tented refugee camps have cropped up to replace the notorious 'Jungle' camp which was dismantled by French authorities in October and November 2016. Migrants assembling in the Zone are making often desperate attempts to cross the English Channel (La Manche) by boat, surf board and even inflatable paddling pools as numbers seeking asylum in the UK continue to rise. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Candlelit vigil, St Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square. Antoinette and Tyrone Hudson pay their respects with hundreds of people gathered to remember the many victims of Hurricane Katrina on the evening of the second anniversary. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Candlelit vigil, St Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square. Mourners gather to pay their respects to the many victims of Hurricane Katrina on the evening of the second anniversary. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Candlelit vigil, St Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square. Mourners gather to pay their respects to the many victims of Hurricane Katrina on the evening of the second anniversary. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Candlelit vigil, St Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square. Mourners gather to pay their respects to the many victims of Hurricane Katrina on the evening of the second anniversary. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Press photographers prepare to shoot the candlelit vigil at St Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square. Hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects to the many victims of Hurricane Katrina on the evening of the second anniversary. <br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The empty streets of the largely derelict and decimated Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The empty streets of the largely derelict and decimated Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The empty streets of the largely derelict and decimated Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush visited a high school less than a mile from the still demolished Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower 9th Ward. Bush posed for photo opportunities at a newly rebuilt high school, yet close by the ghostly remains of another high school show how so many have been left behind. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty lots and houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. Forlorn 'For Sale' signs decorate empty space. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Californian women of 'Indigo Eyes' provide a bit of relief from the sadness. The women play music and sign religious songs in the mostly deserted, empty remains of the  decimated Lower 9th Ward. They stopped and wandered in the gutted Mt Carmel Church. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Californian women of 'Indigo Eyes' provide a bit of relief from the sadness. The women play music and sign religious songs in the mostly deserted, empty remains of the  decimated Lower 9th Ward. They stopped and wandered in the gutted Mt Carmel Church. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Deserted, empty houses remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. A deserted, empty church remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 29 August 2007. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. A deserted, empty church remain derelict and decimated in the Lower 9th Ward. The area remains mostly abandoned and overgrown, ghostly reminders of lives that once were. President Bush came to town and claimed he could be proud of what local and federal government have achieved in the city. Yet two years after the storm, it is quite clear that local and federal government are failing and have a great deal to do to live up their promises.<br />
Photo credit©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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