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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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  • The workplace of a shoemender next to a tavern: the shoemender has gone next door for a drink in the company of the barman. Lithograph by N.L. Delaunois, 1832, after E.J. Pigal.
  • A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin (left); a man touches his forelock to a man wearing a uniform (right). Etching.
  • A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin (left); a man touches his forelock to a man wearing a uniform (right). Etching.
  • A man and a woman taking tea in the garden of a refreshment house: she asks whether he takes suger, he replies in sentimental terms. Etching attributed to R. Seymour.
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • One man punches another in a drunken tavern brawl, two others shout encouragement. Engraving by J. Levasseur after A. Brouwer.
  • Two peasants in a dingy ale-house; one sleeps on a bench and the other urinates in a bucket. Engraving by J. Groensveld after A. Brouwer.
  • Simpson's celebrated 2/- fish dinner : absolutely the best : menu: turbot, stewed eels, fried sole, smelts, whitebait, haunch of mutton, vegetables, cheese & bread : dinner in London : Three Tuns, Billingsgate Market, E.C. / proprietor Charles Best.
  • A crowd of people in a star-studded night sky featuring a personified moon wearing the AIDS red ribbon with the message in Spanish 'All against AIDS' and the signs 'Pub' and 'Bar'; an advertisement for an AIDS benefit evening on 17 June 1995 at the Santa Lucía bar [in Biar?] by the A.Co.S.P.A. (Asociación Ciudadana contra el SIDA de la Provincia de Alicante. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
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