Demonstrators Victor Fischl and Valentin Weinhold sit outside St Paul's Cathedral on 16 October shortly after around 250 people set up camp in the area.Reuters
Demonstrators Victor Fischl and Valentin Weinhold sit outside St Paul's Cathedral on 16 October shortly after around 250 people set up camp in the area.ReutersA demonstrator and resident sweeps the pavement outside St Paul's Cathedral, to keep his new home clean.ReutersA camp dweller sports a mock police uniform in the early days of the camp.ReutersA pedestrian passes a sign attached to a wall by demonstrators camped outside St Paul's Cathedral, that draws a comparison between Occupy and the civilian uprising in Egypt.ReutersThe camp site grew as more and more people joined the demonstration.ReutersTwo Occupy protesters kiss with their Guy Fawkes masks on. The mask, from the film V for Vendetta, has become a symbol for the Occupy movement across the world.ReutersOccupy London demonstrators dressed as zombie bankers participate in a flash mob outside the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange in London, a short walk from St Paul's.ReutersLord Mayor of London David Wootton waves to the crowd as he passes demonstrators from the Occupy protest camp at St Paul's Cathedral, during his parade.ReutersAn eviction notice from the City of London Corporation hangs on a tent outside St. Paul's Cathedral on 16 November, one month after the camp first appeared.ReutersDesigner Vivienne Westwood offers the demonstrators words of support in front of St Paul's Cathedral.ReutersA volunteer prepares supper in the Occupy London protest camp kitchen in front of St Paul's Cathedral. The camp relied on food and money donations from well-wishers.ReutersUS civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson addresses the crowd at the Occupy London site outside St Paul's Cathedral and offered his support to the movement.ReutersOccupy London protesters singing during an evening carol singing session outside St Paul's, ahead of Christmas.ReutersSome demonstrators braved the winter conditions and stayed at the camp during the cold snap in January, though others left and the camp's numbers dwindled.ReutersOccupy London lawyer Michael Paget and representatives from the St Paul's camp speak to members of the media outside the High Court in London on 22 February, after learning that they will be evicted having had an appeal dismissed.Reuters
It has been four months since a group of protesters, angry at the financial system and politicians who helped bring about the vast economic crisis we are still muddling through, pitched up tents outside St Paul's Cathedral right alongside the London Stock Exchange.
They were fuelled by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York in which hundreds of people set up camp in the United States' financial heart to rail against the capitalist system.
Ever since Day 1, the St Paul's camp has faced political and legal challenges to its existence.
London's mayor Boris Johnson told protesters to leave, St Paul's Cathedral officials flipflopped between support and opposition - and lost two of its senior clergymen in the process - and Prime Minister David Cameron urged the protesters to go away.
In the end it was a high court battle with the City of London Corporation, the authority that governs the Square Mile in which the camp is pitched, that forced the protesters pack their bags.
