Vegetables for the gods and moving Messi’s statue: photos of the day – Monday

View image in fullscreenRothwell, UKLocal people try to disarm the halberdiers of their halberds – a medieval weapon – after the reading of the charter, granted by King John in 1204 to the people of the town to allow them to hold a market and a fair, as part of the Rowell Fair Proclamation Day.

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