Dale Farm Travellers await eviction – in pictures

A dog walks past a barricade at Dale Farm Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters

An activist winces as a loop lock placed around her neck secures her to the main gate at Dale Farm Travellers' camp Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Activists lie with their arms handcuffed together through a concrete barrel at the main gate to Dale Farm Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A statue of the Virgin Mary stands outside a home at Dale Farm Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Slogans are painted on a resident's washroom Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Activists and legal observers stand on barricades next to the main gate at Dale Farm Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Activists are silhouetted against the plastic sheeting of a barricade Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A sign on a home at Dale Farm Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

Protesters at the Dale Farm Travellers' site Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

A protester near the front gate at Dale Farm Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA

A slogan painted on a hut Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Security guards watch from a compound alongside the Travellers' settlement Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Mary Ann Sheridan holds her one-year-old baby, Katlin, outside the barricaded entrance of the Traveller settlement Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Supplies are delivered to residents through a gap in the main gate Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

A helicopter hovers over the barricaded entrance Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters

A girl from one of the Dale Farm families swings on scaffolding Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters