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Girl in her car, Mabledon Farm, Southborough, Kent

UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [249] | View Larger Image

Girl in her car, Mabledon Farm, Southborough, Kent

Every week end the boot fairs people wake up at the sunrise and occupys a field, a farm or a parking lot. The boot fairers are Sunday gypsies that for few hours a week make car, truck or van as their stall, resting place and warehouse...
These events bring together the Kentish middle class with the local traveller community, one of the biggest of the whole UK. The items on sale are not evaluated on trade base but on the tacit exchange that what is useless for someone may be valuable to someone else. In an economic system that tends to overproduce and encourage the replacement instead of recycling, these makeshift giveaways look like a local sustainable model.

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Seller of vases, Mabledon Farm, Southborough, Kent

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