Locks of love

Lovers and newlyweds around the world have locked padlocks onto public spaces (and thrown away the key!) to symbolise unity and luck in love! The practice is thought to have begun in Pécs, in Hungary, back in the 1980s (below).

The love lock trees found on the city’s Luzhkov Bridge,Moscow

The fence surroung Mt. Namsan's N Seoul Tower, Seoul

A colourful wall of locks in an amusement park in Korakuen, Tokyo