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Mar 26 2008

Back to: A Man's Home Is Their Castle

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Squatters have taken over a 22-room mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London. While more than 100,000 properties in London lay empty, squatting is an alternative to paying some of Europe's most expensive rents.
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Pete, 23, from Lincolnshire, is ready to spend his first night inside the newly entered Winnington Road mansion.
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Josh (left), 26, from North London, is moving parts of a bed frame to his room.
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Robert (left), 25, from Poland, is fixing his room in an Ingram Avenue mansion while Lukats, 23, checks the progress being made.
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Pete discovers that electricity is working in the mansion he and the others have just entered.
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Zil, 23, from Poland, affixes the warning used by squatters who occupy a residence left empty.
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Josh argues with a police officer about squatting rights on the day the owners of the Winnington Road property found the squatters inside the house.
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Nego (left), 31, and his girlfriend, Daniela, 26, in the kitchen of a Wildwood Road mansion while Lulu (right), 33, from Romania, prepares a meal.
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Romana (center), 29, from Czech Republic, barbecues for guests in the back garden of the Wildwood Road mansion.

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