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10-02-2012 - The demolished LDV vans factory, Washwood Heath, Birmingham. LDV closed with debts of £75 million in 2009 with the loss of 800 manufacturing jobs. © John Harris

30-03-2015 - Art in a closed down shop that is part of the Sheffield Showcase project, a project that turns disused retail space into community art space. The project is funded by Sheffield City Council as a Vacan... © Connor Matheson

16-04-2013 - The Dreamland amusement park, closed since 2005, and the 18 story 1960s Arlington House tower block on Margate seafront. © Philip Wolmuth

16-04-2013 - Dreamland welcomes you. Empty shops in Margate, Kent. The Dreamland amusement park has been closed since 2005. © Philip Wolmuth

16-04-2013 - The Dreamland amusement park, closed since 2005, and the 18 story 1960s Arlington House tower block on Margate seafront. © Philip Wolmuth

06-12-2012 - Wixom, Michigan - Demolition of part of the Ford Wixom Assembly plant. The plant was once Fords largest North American assembly plant. It has been closed since 2007. © Jim West

06-12-2012 - Wixom, Michigan - Demolition of part of the Ford Wixom Assembly plant. The plant was once Fords largest North American assembly plant. It has been closed since 2007. © Jim West

20-09-2012 - A brownfield site acquired for residential housing development by Redrow (UK's sixth-biggest housebuilder by turnover) the site has been empty since 2007 due to the credit crunch and subsequent recess... © John Harris

20-09-2012 - A brownfield site acquired for residential housing development by Redrow (UK's sixth-biggest housebuilder by turnover) the site has been empty since 2007 due to the credit crunch and subsequent recess... © John Harris

20-09-2012 - A brownfield site acquired for residential housing development by Redrow (UK's sixth-biggest housebuilder by turnover) the site has been empty since 2007 due to the credit crunch and subsequent recess... © John Harris

10-02-2012 - The demolished LDV vans factory, Washwood Heath, Birmingham. LDV closed with debts of £75 million in 2009 with the loss of 800 manufacturing jobs. © John Harris

10-02-2012 - The demolished LDV vans factory, Washwood Heath, Birmingham. LDV closed with debts of £75 million in 2009 with the loss of 800 manufacturing jobs. © John Harris

10-02-2012 - The gates of the demolished LDV vans factory, Washwood Heath, Birmingham. LDV closed with debts of £75 million in 2009 with the loss of 800 manufacturing jobs. © John Harris

15-05-2011 - Columbus Quay Apartments a rusting riverside development, the construction of which was halted by the 2008 financial crisis, Liverpool © John Harris

15-05-2011 - Columbus Quay Apartments a rusting riverside development, the construction of which was halted by the 2008 financial crisis, Liverpool © John Harris

15-05-2011 - Columbus Quay Apartments a rusting riverside development, the construction of which was halted by the 2008 financial crisis, Liverpool © John Harris

23-03-2010 - Michigan - The unemployed of Detroit queue to apply for 200 jobs at a new Meijer store. © Jim West

23-03-2010 - A manager admits applicants to the store for interviews. Michigan - The unemployed of Detroit queue to apply for 200 jobs at a new Meijer store. © Jim West

23-03-2010 - Michigan - The unemployed of Detroit queue to apply for 200 jobs at a new Meijer store. © Jim West

23-03-2010 - Michigan - The unemployed of Detroit queue to apply for 200 jobs at a new Meijer store. © Jim West

23-03-2010 - Michigan - The unemployed of Detroit queue to apply for 200 jobs at a new Meijer store. © Jim West

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, answering questions at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. Frances O'Grady, Deputy General Secretary of the TUC is to his r... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, smiling whilst at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in contemplative mood at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, answering questions at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. Beside him are Frances O'Grady & Brendan Barber of the TUC. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Sue Ferns of Prospect trade union asking a question of Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, making at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, making the keynote speech at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, making the keynote speech at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, making the keynote speech at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, making the keynote speech at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, making the keynote speech at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-11-2009 - Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, making the keynote speech at a TUC Conference on the economic recession entitled: Beyond Crisis. © Stefano Cagnoni

22-10-2009 - Closing Down Sale, Blacks Leisure, London. They are shutting 89 of its loss-making stores. © Duncan Phillips

22-10-2009 - Closing Down Sale, Blacks Leisure, London. They are shutting 89 of its loss-making stores. © Duncan Phillips

22-10-2009 - Closing Down Sale, Blacks Leisure, London. They are shutting 89 of its loss-making stores. © Duncan Phillips

18-09-2009 - Washington, DC - A homeless man sleeps at the entrance to a Metro subway station near the White House. © Jim West

18-09-2009 - Washington, DC - A homeless man sleeps at the entrance to a Metro subway station near the White House. © Jim West

21-08-2009 - Closed off license with concrete block barriers across the car park. © John Harris

01-08-2009 - Discerning customers looking at used cars on a dealers forecourt. © John Harris

01-08-2009 - Discerning customers looking at used cars on a dealers forecourt. © John Harris

01-08-2009 - Old Skoda car on a dealers forecourt advertising the Car Scrappage Scheme. © John Harris

23-07-2009 - Women talking in front of a boarded up shop in Rotherham town centre. © Christopher Thomond

23-07-2009 - An elderly shopper walking through Rotherham town centre walks past a closed shop Every Penny Counts... © Christopher Thomond

23-07-2009 - A girl and a boy walk past a closed shop in Veliko Tarnovo, the town has suffered as a result of the financial crisis. © Philip Wolmuth

18-07-2009 - Man eating take away chips on the street and feral pigeons. Wednesbury town centre. © John Harris

19-06-2009 - Empty cinema in central Liverpool. © Philip Wolmuth

16-06-2009 - Graduates who have just left University at Civil Service Fast Stream stand at the London Graduate Fair in London, seeking employment in the midst of the biggest economic recession since the 1930's. © Stefano Cagnoni

12-06-2009 - Priceless. Closed shops in the centre of Hereford. The town has been badly hit by the economic crisis. © Philip Wolmuth

12-06-2009 - Closed shops in the centre of Hereford. The town has been badly hit by the economic crisis. © Philip Wolmuth

12-06-2009 - Closed wine bar and bistro in the centre of Hereford. The market town has been badly hit by the economic crisis. © Philip Wolmuth

12-06-2009 - A closed corner shop in the Derker area of Oldham, due to be redeveloped as part of a government Pathfinder scheme.~. © Christopher Thomond

11-06-2009 - Shoppers walk past The Recession Buster by Paul OGrady, an advertisement by WH Smith for the autobiography of Paul OGrady now in paperback, Birmingham © Timm Sonnenschein

11-06-2009 - Shoppers walk past The Recession Buster by Paul OGrady, an advertisement by WH Smith for the autobiography of Paul OGrady now in paperback, Birmingham © Timm Sonnenschein

27-05-2009 - Migrants from Eastern Europe boarding a coach leaving for Poland as the recession reduces demand. London Victoria Coach Station. © Justin Tallis

27-05-2009 - Migrants from Eastern Europe boarding a coach leaving for Poland as the recession reduces demand. London Victoria Coach Station. © Justin Tallis

27-05-2009 - Migrants from Eastern Europe boarding a coach leaving for Poland as the recession reduces demand. London Victoria Coach Station. © Justin Tallis

27-05-2009 - Migrants from Eastern Europe boarding a coach leaving for Poland as the recession reduces demand. London Victoria Coach Station. © Justin Tallis

22-05-2009 - Credit Cruncher shop for cheap goods, Bristol. © Paul Box

13-05-2009 - This store is no more! Closed down off licence, Stratford on Avon. © John Harris

08-05-2009 - Chained and locked gates. The Corus Redcar steelworks at Redcar Co Cleveland which is to be mothballed with the loss of over 2000 jobs after parent company Tata announced the cancellation of 4 major c... © Mark Pinder

08-05-2009 - Chained and locked gates. The Corus Redcar steelworks at Redcar Co Cleveland which is to be mothballed with the loss of over 2000 jobs after parent company Tata announced the cancellation of 4 major c... © Mark Pinder

06-05-2009 - Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant, at risk of closure under restructuring plans as part of FIAT's proposed takeover of parent company General Motors Europe. © Christopher Thomond

09-04-2009 - Migrant workers waiting outside the railway station to leave Shanghai, China and return to the countryside as jobs are lost during recession © Timm Sonnenschein

09-04-2009 - Migrant workers waiting outside the railway station to leave Shanghai, China and return to the countryside as jobs are lost during recession © Timm Sonnenschein

09-04-2009 - Migrant workers waiting outside the railway station to leave Shanghai, China and return to the countryside as jobs are lost during recession © Timm Sonnenschein

09-04-2009 - Migrant workers waiting outside the railway station to leave Shanghai, China and return to the countryside as jobs are lost during recession © Timm Sonnenschein

09-04-2009 - Migrant workers waiting outside the railway station to leave Shanghai, China and return to the countryside as jobs are lost during recession © Timm Sonnenschein

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati shi... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati shi... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

06-04-2009 - End of an era on the Tyne.~Tynesiders gather at the Groyne in South Shields to say their final farewells to the Swan Hunter shipyard cranes as they leave the river Tyne, on a journey to the Bharati sh... © Mark Pinder

27-03-2009 - This store is no more! Closed down off licence, Stratford on Avon. © John Harris

25-03-2009 - Milford Haven has the most shop closures of any town in the UK. © Paul Box

25-03-2009 - Milford Haven has the most shop closures of any town in the UK. © Paul Box

25-03-2009 - Milford Haven has the most shop closures of any town in the UK. © Paul Box

24-03-2009 - Men looking for work read through job vacancies at the Tallinn Labour Market Board (unemployment office). © Philip Wolmuth

24-03-2009 - EURES (EURopean Employment Services) adviser for Europe-wide job vacancies at the Tallinnn Labour Market Board (unemployment office). © Philip Wolmuth

24-03-2009 - An unemployed Algerian construction worker waits for an interview at the Tallinn Labour Market Board (unemployment office). © Philip Wolmuth

24-03-2009 - An adviser talks to a job seeker at the Tallinn Labour Market Board (unemployment office). © Philip Wolmuth

24-03-2009 - An adviser talks to a job seeker at the Tallinn Labour Market Board (unemployment office). © Philip Wolmuth

24-03-2009 - Two unemployed men look at printouts of job vacancies outside the Tallinn Labour Market Board (unemployment office). © Philip Wolmuth

12-03-2009 - A young man considering the Marines, at a job fair, sponsored by the City of Detroit. © Jim West

12-03-2009 - A applicant going over his resume with a recruiter, at a job fair, sponsored by the City of Detroit. © Jim West

12-03-2009 - More than 5,000 unemployed residents of southeast Michigan showed up to look for work, at a job fair, sponsored by the City of Detroit. © Jim West

12-03-2009 - More than 5,000 unemployed residents of southeast Michigan showed up to look for work, at a job fair, sponsored by the City of Detroit. © Jim West

12-03-2009 - More than 5,000 unemployed residents of southeast Michigan showed up to look for work, at a job fair, sponsored by the City of Detroit. Some job seekers fill out applications on computers, while other... © Jim West

28-02-2009 - A young man filling in a job application on a computer, for a summer job at Cedar Point amusement park. © Jim West

28-02-2009 - Two young men filling in job applications on computers, as others wait for interviews for summer jobs at Cedar Point amusement park. © Jim West

28-02-2009 - An interviewer talking to a woman, who is applying for a summer job at Cedar Point amusement park. © Jim West

07-02-2009 - Closed down shops on Kilburn High Road. © Philip Wolmuth

07-02-2009 - Closing down sale on Kilburn High Road. © Philip Wolmuth