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G's celery harvest, Cambridgeshire.
Workers at G’s Vegetables in Cambridgeshire, UK reaping the 2019 celery harvest.
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Antek, Denisa and Vendula, seasonal workers from the Czech Republic hoeing weeds in the brassica fields of South Lincolnshire. Weeding, needing the application of the eye to determine between the crop and invasive plants is one of the few agricultural tasks that has yet to be mechanised or automated.
Migrants in Wisbech Cambridgeshire.
migrant workers seeking work in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
A room (kolhata) to rent advertisement in a newsagents window. The text is in Russian cyrillic and deliberately designed to appeal to prospective East European migrants tenants of a certain age. Anyone who went to school within the USSR before its collapse 1991 learned Russian as part of the curriculum, and as part of the Soviet cultural domination of its occupied territories. Although widely loathed and abandoned after the fall of communism, the practise of having a common language proved useful for migrants when those countries joined the EU under the A8 accession rules in 2004 and they were given the right to come to live and work in the UK. That meant Czechs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Slovakians, Slovenians, Poles, Hungarians and Estonians could communicate with each other. Useful if you’re trying to make yourself heard on a factory floor or field in the Fens. Even today If you go into any of the East European shops in the town the transaction will often complete with the assistant exclaiming “spasiba”, the Russian word for thanks.
New Roots, Old Soil
A young woman from Estonia walks along the A47 in Cambridgeshire between her two jobs at McDonald's and a petrol station.
New Roots, Old Soil
A hairbrush, a broken mirror, a plate.
An abandoned pigsty inhabited by two Latvian women who came to the UK seeking work but found themselves homeless and eating dog food to survive. Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
New Roots, Old Soil
Waiting for the first customer of the day at Baxter's chip shop window, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire.
Migrants in Wisbech Cambridgeshire.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - employees bar, The Let Us Inn.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - employees gym.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - shop facilities for workers.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - Accommodation rooms for workers.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - shop facilities for workers.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - Accommodation building for workers.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - Accommodation rooms for workers.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - Mushroom growing and processing.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - Accommodation building for workers.
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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 ORDERED BY MARCUS COTTON. G's vegetable growers near Ely in Cambridgeshire. The company employs and provides accommodation and facilities for many workers from Eastern Europe. Picture shows - Mushroom growing and processing.