Les Halles at night in the meat pavilion. Inspectors are getting ready for a night's work in the chilly atmosphere. A butcher is arriving for work with his tools slung over the back of his relatively clean white coat - butcher's knives, a sharpening steel, towels to mop up the blood. The tools would be different according to each specialised job. Each butcher has his set of butcher tools in a rigid open carrying case. The case was effectively a knife block carried rather dangerously like an improvised open haversack which the butchers brought with them to work on a length of chain slung over one shoulder and carried behind them lying flat against their back, often with a bone saw dangling dangerously. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls... "It was a hard time, people hadn't got money." The butchers' clothes and tools would most probably have been kept in lockers in one of the pavilions' basements. Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.