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We are starting a page of images that can be used to get pupils to think and also allow you to assess whether the irony helps stimulate theorising and explaining in geography. 

Anyone who has images that they own the copyright to can send them in. Weblinks to witty images please let me have them too. If we have infringed copyright in anyway here please let us know so that we can put it right.

If any one else would like to contribute a picture story like these about anywhere in the world then e-mail kate.russell@ataffordshire.gov.uk

All photographs can be used in any teaching and learning context in a school but cannot be used for any other purposes without prior permission of kate.russell@ataffordshire.gov.uk

  Can you add more??? Keep your eyes skinned.
Thanks to Fred Martin for this evidence of global warming!!
How could they do this? Thank you to Alice Payne for this image.

Only in .... Quatar. Thanks to Fred Martin who was sent these by a teacher.
Only in .... is there anywhere they have not been?
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Thanks to Tony Cassidy, Kirk Hallam Community Technology College, for these images taken on a recent field visit to Berlin. 
Irish pub in Berlin. 

 

Memorial church; which is worse the ruin or the modern additions? 

 

 

 

Checkpoint Charlie - more congested than ever. 

 

 

Also could be used as a starter for redevelopment.
Reichstag dome 

 

Sony centre roof, Potsdam plaza 

Oct 2004 Fam Visit and Art Researches 001.jpg (48987 bytes) Where do the Tropics meet sub Arctic!! Thanks to Ian Hardie, Rayburn Tours 
What do you see a map of the world  or a forgotten continent? www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs/what_do_you_see/africa.htm

Thanks to Emlyn Wright for this lead.

These are old fieldwork cartoons. You like the great outdoors...
I recall when fieldwork used to be ...
Poor Devils, thanks to Jason Day for locating this cartoon.
Aids awareness...thanks again to Jason Day...It  is from illustrated an article on the work of Henning Mankell in raising AIDS awareness
Floods are often a source of irony.. Thanks to Liz Newcombe for this ironic one....
  Fred Martin is the source of these inspirationally ironic images...one for 'planetisation'...Fred says you are to remember he coined it first...
Thanks again to Fred Martin for this map which ask questions of US foreign policy... no offence our US geographer friends of SLN...It would be interesting to do a map of the world according to an English football fan....
I suppose this is an 'Only in' but thanks to Kathy who sent us this Gambia Airport image.
  Thanks to Val Vannet for this ironic comment that could be used in a Climate lesson about the UK.
  Thanks to Tony Escritt, Discover the Living Planet. This poignant picture was taken at Amman airport, Jordan.
Only in Australia. Thanks to Fred Martin for sending in these 'only in' series,  and can people please tell me where they are from as we cannot locate them.
Only in Texas.....
Only in the USA
Only in China
  Only in Japan. 

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