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  • Parked on the apron at Paris Orly Airport, a lone pilot of the French national airline Air France, leans out of his right-hand seat's cockpit window of his Boeing 777-328/ER aircraft (F-GSQT). It is a bright morning at this international hub for Air France and without help from ground staff, the silver-haired gentleman who may be the captain and commander of the aircraft (because of age and seat position) has decided to get on with the job of cleaning his window himself much like a driver wiping away flies from his car windscreen. Here however, this chore being performed approximately six meters off the ground so safety is vital - just as a clear front view for the flight-deck crew before their flight. Attached to the plane is the mobile walkway, the air bridge, that awaits boarding passengers but no 'ramp agent' is below.
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  • Pet dog rides on top of an airline animal cargo box in the main terminal of Paris Orly airport. Perched on top of the animal transport container, the dog looks attentive and interested either before or after its flight from or to, the Paris airport, being wheeled on a baggage trolley. Another passenger walks through the terminal, amused at the strange dog. Animals have been transported by air since the early 1930's. In today's modern world, carriage of live animals by air is considered the most humane and expedient method of transportation over long distances. ATA's Live Animals Regulations (LAR) is the worldwide standard for transporting live animals by commercial airlines.
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  • Pet dog rides on top of an airline animal cargo box in the main terminal of Paris Orly airport. Perched on top of the animal transport container, the dog looks attentive and interested either before or after its flight from or to, the Paris airport, being wheeled on a baggage trolley. Other passengers walk past in the terminal. Animals have been transported by air since the early 1930's. In today's modern world, carriage of live animals by air is considered the most humane and expedient method of transportation over long distances. ATA's Live Animals Regulations (LAR) is the worldwide standard for transporting live animals by commercial airlines.
    orly_dog01-05-06-2014_1.jpg
  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
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  • Two toilet rolls are ready for use in a Paris hotel room toilet. Folded into triangular, pointed ends that point down to the bathroom floor in a famliar manner known to businessmen and and tourists during overnight stays in these anonymous and generic rest-stops frequented by travellers. Mounted onto a brown wall, the twin toilet roll holders are fixed side by side and have a shiny chrome finish.
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  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. Wearing white gloves and a decorative overcoat worn on special occasions, we see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
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  • Surveyor holding a prism pole or ranging pole. Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them, commonly practiced by surveyors, and members of various engineering professions.
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  • Surveyor holding a prism pole or ranging pole. Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them, commonly practiced by surveyors, and members of various engineering professions.
    20150119_surveyor_B.jpg
  • Heavy police presence dealing with anti-vaxxer protesters who had fragmented across the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
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  • Heavy police presence dealing with anti-vaxxer protesters who had fragmented across the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_005.jpg
  • Heavy police presence dealing with anti-vaxxer protesters who had fragmented across the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_004.jpg
  • Before finalists take part in their last exercises at a gymkhana pony competition, these rosettes prizes seen here in close-up detail wait to be claimed by young winners and losers. From the top we see prizes for Reserve Champions then those for 1st prize, then second, third and runners-up at the very bottom. Such accolades are won and lost by fractions of a second but their importance is remembered for years afterwards as young girls desperately practice to improve their equestrian skills. A huge commitment is needed by the girls and their parents who spend great deals of money and time for these treasured prizes which can be won or lost by fractions of seconds or single points. Those that fail to win go home feeling empty-handed or perhaps cheated out of victory and glory. Those who win hang them on bedroom walls for years to come.
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  • A scarecrow guards crops and plants by a Gloucestershire country garden dry stone wall. The human figure has been made of straw and fabric, a cloth hat and the form of a blackbird on its head. It stands against the stone wall at the boundary of land in this Cotswold garden, near Cirencester. A scarecrow or hay-man is a decoy or mannequin in the shape of a human. It is usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. As its name suggests, it scares away crows (and other species) from a field.
    garden_scarecrow02-14-09-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Before finalists take part in their last exercises at a gymkhana pony competition, these rosettes prizes seen here in close-up detail wait to be claimed by young winners and losers. From the top we see prizes for Reserve Champions then those for 1st prize, then second, third and runners-up at the very bottom. Such accolades are won and lost by fractions of a second but their importance is remembered for years afterwards as young girls desperately practice to improve their equestrian skills. A huge commitment is needed by the girls and their parents who spend great deals of money and time for these treasured prizes which can be won or lost by fractions of seconds or single points. Those that fail to win go home feeling empty-handed or perhaps cheated out of victory and glory. Those who win hang them on bedroom walls for years to come.
    crufts_rosettes03-16-1987_1.jpg
  • Protester discussing anti-vaccination opinions with police in the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_011.jpg
  • Heavy police presence dealing with anti-vaxxer protesters who had fragmented across the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_010.jpg
  • Heavy police presence dealing with anti-vaxxer protesters who had fragmented across the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_006.jpg
  • Protester discussing anti-vaccination opinions with police in the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_007.jpg
  • Heavy police presence dealing with anti-vaxxer protesters who had fragmented across the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_002.jpg
  • Heavy police presence dealing with anti-vaxxer protesters who had fragmented across the West End as the Prime Minister announces a new tighter fourth tier of local coronavirus restrictions for London and the South East, and that the planned Christmas relaxation of the rules was to be scrapped on 19th December 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy, also known as anti-vaccination or anti-vax, is a reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have ones children vaccinated against contagious diseases despite the availability of vaccination services.
    20201219_anti vaxxer police_001.jpg
  • The number 5 has been sprayed in aerosol on to tree bark to identify their location in an English wood. As part of a practice in forestry to identify boundaries or specific trees in an orchard or wood, the landowner or manager has made the location easily found using the bright pink colours.
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  • Evening light from apartment rooms glowing on the rue Navarin, 9th Arrondissement, Paris, France. Seen from down the street in the district known affectionately as South Pigalle (aka "SoPi") we see the glow of house lights in a room 3 or 4 floors up from street level. There is no-one home or nobody seen in the flat. It's late and the shutters are either open or closed in the blue light of a Parisien evening.
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  • Prostitutes sex cards on a telephone booth floor amongst discarded cigarette ends. 'Tart cards' are cards advertising the services of prostitutes. They are found in many countries, usually in capital cities or red-light districts. The cards originated in the 1960s as handwritten postcards outside prostitutes' flats in places such as Soho, London, where they often contained euphemistic references to sex. Now that phone boxes are rarely used, being used for these cards or as public toilets seems to be their predominant use.
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  • Ghost bike in central London. A ghost bike or ghostcycle is a bicycle set up as a roadside memorial in a place where a cyclist has been killed or severely injured (usually by a motor vehicle). Apart from being a memorial, it is usually intended as a reminder to passing motorists to share the road. Ghost bikes are usually junk bicycles painted white, sometimes with a placard attached, and locked to a suitable object close to the scene of the accident. Many of these memorials are political statements erected by individuals who aim to make a wider point beyond personal loss regarding general road cyclist awareness.
    20141130_ghost bike_A.jpg
  • Two girls and a dog outside a painted shutters on Brick Lane in the East End of London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
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  • Street art on the wall on Turville Street in Shoreditch, London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141129_street art shoreditch_A.jpg
  • Street art on the wall on Turville Street in Shoreditch, London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141129_street art shoreditch_B.jpg
  • Street art in Shoreditch, London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141102_street art london_C.jpg
  • Street art in Shoreditch, London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141102_street art london_D.jpg
  • Street art in Shoreditch, London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141102_street art london_A.jpg
  • Street art in Shoreditch, London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141102_street art london_B.jpg
  • Small empty cannister of laughing gas lying on the street. Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, nitro, or NOS is now a very common 'legal high' used by young people. Nitrous oxide can cause analgesia, depersonalisation, derealisation, dizziness, euphoria, and some sound distortion. Inhalation of nitrous oxide for recreational use, with the purpose of causing euphoria and/or slight hallucinations, began as a phenomenon for the British upper class in 1799, known as "laughing gas parties".
    20141019_laughing gas cannister_A.jpg
  • Street artist who uses the name Art is Trash working in Shoreditch. He searches out piles of rubbish and transforms these piles of trash into temporary and amusing artworks. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
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  • Street artist who uses the name Art is Trash working in Shoreditch. He searches out piles of rubbish and transforms these piles of trash into temporary and amusing artworks. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141005_art is trash_A.jpg
  • Alphabet street art covering a yellow wall with letter forms in Spitalfields, London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141004_street art city_A.jpg
  • Turkey bird street art covering a wall in Whitechapel, East London, UK. The animal appears to be standing / walking on a metal bollard. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20141004_street art turkey_A.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20140830_street art london_C.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20140830_street art london_E.jpg
  • Street art by Stik in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20140830_street art london_D.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20140830_street art london_A.jpg
  • Scene or a family playing in the street by two red telephone boxes outside the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. In a selected few boroughs of West London, wealth has changed over the last couple of decades. Traditionally wealthy parts of town, have developed into new affluent playgrounds of the super rich. With influxes of foreign money in particular from the Middle-East. The UK capital is home to more multimillionaires than any other city in the world according to recent figures. Boasting a staggering 4,224 'ultra-high net worth' residents - people with a net worth of more than $30million, or £19.2million.. London, England, UK.
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  • Scene or a family playing in the street by two red telephone boxes outside the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. In a selected few boroughs of West London, wealth has changed over the last couple of decades. Traditionally wealthy parts of town, have developed into new affluent playgrounds of the super rich. With influxes of foreign money in particular from the Middle-East. The UK capital is home to more multimillionaires than any other city in the world according to recent figures. Boasting a staggering 4,224 'ultra-high net worth' residents - people with a net worth of more than $30million, or £19.2million.. London, England, UK.
    20140415_west london wealth nat hist...jpg
  • Street art piece reads 'Explore' woven into a fence using pink rope. Street art near Brick Lane in the East End of London. This is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20140323_exploreA.jpg
  • Street art collaboration on the exterior of a factory space beside the Lea Navigational Canal in East London. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20150201_street art canal_A.jpg
  • Build up of healthy looking green moss on an old wall. London, UK. Mosses are small flowerless plants that usually grow in dense green clumps or mats, in damp or shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple, one-cell thick leaves, covering a thin stem that supports them but does not conduct water and nutrients.
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  • Build up of healthy looking green moss on an old wall. London, UK. Mosses are small flowerless plants that usually grow in dense green clumps or mats, in damp or shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple, one-cell thick leaves, covering a thin stem that supports them but does not conduct water and nutrients.
    20150121_moss_A.jpg
  • Empty cannisters of laughing gas lying on the street. Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, nitro, or NOS is now a very common 'legal high' used by young people. Nitrous oxide can cause analgesia, depersonalisation, derealisation, dizziness, euphoria, and some sound distortion. Inhalation of nitrous oxide for recreational use, with the purpose of causing euphoria and/or slight hallucinations, began as a phenomenon for the British upper class in 1799, known as "laughing gas parties".
    20150120_laughing gas_B.jpg
  • Empty cannisters of laughing gas lying on the street. Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, nitro, or NOS is now a very common 'legal high' used by young people. Nitrous oxide can cause analgesia, depersonalisation, derealisation, dizziness, euphoria, and some sound distortion. Inhalation of nitrous oxide for recreational use, with the purpose of causing euphoria and/or slight hallucinations, began as a phenomenon for the British upper class in 1799, known as "laughing gas parties".
    20150120_laughing gas_A.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20150119_street art shoreditch_B.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20150119_street art shoreditch_C.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20150119_street art shoreditch_A.jpg
  • Street art running man on a road sign in London, UK. Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20150118_street art running man_A.jpg
  • WW1 Ovillers cemetery, the resting place of allied and commonwealth war dead from the Somme, France. Surrounded by summer corn fields, the scene is peaceful and idyllic, a landscape of rural France - far from the horrors of the battle fought here almost 100 years ago.<br />
There are now 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 24 casualties believed to be buried among them. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles.
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  • Crowds gather at some water during the annual Carriagedriving trials at the Windsor Great Park Equestrian Club. As one spectator lies across the grass, reading a national newspaper, a competitor negotiates a water feature on the Windsor course. Carriage driving is a form of competitive horse driving in harness in which larger two or four wheeled carriages (often restored antiques) are pulled by a single horse, a pair, tandem or a four-in-hand team. The Windsor Park Equestrian Club is situated among the 5,000 acres of the Windsor Great Park which in turn is part of the 14,000 acre Windsor Estate spanning two counties, Surrey and Berkshire.
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  • Duty Free customer and a picture of the Bay of Naples at Naples airport. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
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  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
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  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
    vesuvius47-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
    vesuvius37-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Internal lighting seen in a still vacant office space in the City of London, UK. Artwork has been placed on one rear wall to show local views of the City outside. Before the completion of these new corporate floors, currently unoccupied by the tenant or owner and with fixtures, fittings and furnishings still to be fitted by the property's management. Work has yet to be completed before the hundreds or thousands of employees can move in to this building in the heart of the UK capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in AD43.
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  • Internal lighting seen in a still vacant office space in the City of London, UK. Before the completion of these new corporate floors, currently unoccupied by the tenant or owner and with fixtures, fittings and furnishings still to be fitted by the property's management. Work has yet to be completed before the hundreds or thousands of employees can move in to this building in the heart of the UK capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    vacant_offices08-06-01-2014_1_1.jpg
  • A man speaks on a handheld device at the window of a vacant office building in the City of London. With the phone to his ear, the decision maker speaks to arrange the completion of these new corporate floors, currently unoccupied by the tenant or owner and with fixtures, fittings and furnishings still to be fitted by the property's management. Work has yet to be completed before the hundreds or thousands of employees can move in to this building in the heart of the UK capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    vacant_offices01-06-01-2014_1_1.jpg
  • Local children from varying family backgrounds and ethnicities get stuck in with a heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug war games during a community park festival. As part of an annual event in Ruskin Park in the London borough of Lambeth, neighbours and friends meet for an afternoon of self-initiated events including this contest of strength and teamwork. Both big kids and younger people join in and either help pull or simply hang on as the rope on their side either wins or loses.
    tug_o_war08-23-06-2012_1_1.jpg
  • Local children from varying family backgrounds and ethnicities get stuck in with a heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug war games during a community park festival. As part of an annual event in Ruskin Park in the London borough of Lambeth, neighbours and friends meet for an afternoon of self-initiated events including this contest of strength and teamwork. Both big kids and younger people join in and either help pull or simply hang on as the rope on their side either wins or loses.
    tug_o_war02-23-06-2012_1_1.jpg
  • Local children from varying family backgrounds and ethnicities get stuck in with a heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug war games during a community park festival. As part of an annual event in Ruskin Park in the London borough of Lambeth, neighbours and friends meet for an afternoon of self-initiated events including this contest of strength and teamwork. Both big kids and younger people join in and either help pull or simply hang on as the rope on their side either wins or loses.
    tug_o_war05-23-06-2012_1_1.jpg
  • Local children from varying family backgrounds and ethnicities get stuck in with a heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug war games during a community park festival. As part of an annual event in Ruskin Park in the London borough of Lambeth, neighbours and friends meet for an afternoon of self-initiated events including this contest of strength and teamwork. Both big kids and younger people join in and either help pull or simply hang on as the rope on their side either wins or loses.
    tug_o_war06-23-06-2012_1_1.jpg
  • A motor launch passes a narrow boat with parrot and dog in the early morning on a still River Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire. In the foreground is a caged parrot and a small Scotty dog. We see a scene of early misty light across the perfectly still waters, a landscape of peace and tranquillity. The mirror-like surface is at Dorchester-on-Thames, just above the Thame's confluence with the River Thames. The River Thames is the second longest river in the United Kingdom and the longest river entirely in England (215 miles or 346 km long). It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea at the Thames Estuary. Historically the Thames was only so-named downstream of the village; upstream it is named the Isis, and Ordnance Survey maps continue to label the river as "River Thames or Isis" until Dorchester.
    thames_boats-14-01-2014_1.jpg
  • Yellow security gate scanners, still in place the day after Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral that required tight security, remains as a backdrop for commuting or waiting Londoners. Beneath the reinforced arch, the commuters text and check messages or attend to children in buggies. Before their imminent removal, they made an incongruous sight in the area as people passed their ugly presence. The high-security event brought much of the City of London to a standstill as arrangements for Thatcher's cortege passed nearby to the cathedral where 2,000 VIPs gathered to honour the former British Prime Minister.
    security_gate05-18-04-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Yellow security gate scanners, still in place the day after Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral at St Paul's Cathedral that required tight security, remains as a backdrop for commuting or waiting Londoners. Beneath the reinforced arch, the commuters text and check messages or attend to children in buggies. Before their imminent removal, they made an incongruous sight in the area as people passed their ugly presence. The high-security event brought much of the City of London to a standstill as arrangements for Thatcher's cortege passed nearby to the cathedral where 2,000 VIPs gathered to honour the former British Prime Minister.
    security_gate02-18-04-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys in grey suits walk past resting disabled woman. As the young men file past in a queue to enter St Paul's Cathedral for an event in central London. The lady in red sits in a wheelie seat, seemingly dozing or asleep and unaware of the busy activity all around her. The youths are wearing sober grey suits as part of theirt school or college uniform - all smart boys with fine futures ahead of them.
    schoolboys01-17-10-2014_1.jpg
  • Repetition and visual pun of stripes from zebra crossing and number 11 Routemaster bus. As a visual pun of stripes and straight parallel lines, the eleven and white bars of the zebra crossing can be seen as a coincidence, a street trick. The hybrid NB4L, or the Borismaster, New Routemaster or Boris Bus, is a 21st century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London and is said to be 40 per cent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel buses. The brainchild of London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, its funding has been controversial amid massive fare increases in transport.
    routemaster_bus04-08-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Official publicity portrait for the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team in mid-day glare at RAF Akrotiri. In the mid-day heat, all members of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand at ease and we see the back of one of the squadron's official photographers head, looking into the viewfinder of his camera to record an official photograph immediately on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri.
    Red_Arrows168_RBA.jpg
  • Londoners have their umbrellas turned inside out or dash through seasonal rain showers and wind gusts in central London. In the foreground, a businessman runs into a strong wind that has brought a brief spell of bad weather into the capital's streets, catching out those with fragile brolleys or those without all-weather layers. The scene is in Cannon Street in the heart of London's financial centre and oldest historical part of the former Roman walled city dating from the first century.
    rain_city02-18-04-2013.jpg
  • Stepladders seen in a still vacant office space in the City of London, UK. The ladders stand, left alone for the night. The corporate floors are new, currently unoccupied by the tenant or owner and with fixtures, fittings and furnishings still to be fitted by the property's management. Work has yet to be completed before the hundreds or thousands of employees can move in to this building in the heart of the UK capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    office_work01-06-01-2014_1_1.jpg
  • A doorman in traditional long red overcoat stands outside the Lloyds of London address in the City of London, the capital's heart of the financial district. The post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_of_london06-18-03-1993.jpg
  • From a low vantage point looking upwards, the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building in the City of London. We see the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_of_london01-18-03-1993.jpg
  • Two businessmen in the insurance industry smoke a cigar and checks a watch outside the Lloyds of London address in the City of London, the capital's heart of the financial district. The post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
    lloyds_of_london04-18-03-1993.jpg
  • The words Good as Gold are written on the top of a Victorian building in Southwark, south London. With blue sky and clouds above, we see an urban street message sprayed on the former warehouse near Waterloo. “Good as gold” or “as good as gold” are common English expressions meaning something is genuine or reliable. Referring to people, particularly children, they usually mean well behaved. “Good as gold” is one of numerous figures of speech involving gold as a desirable standard of some kind. The expression is a simile, an analogy used to describe something by comparing it to something else. The word “gold” itself is one of the oldest words in the English language.
    good_as_gold02-12-09-2014_1.jpg
  • The words Good as Gold are written on the top of a Victorian building in Southwark, south London. With blue sky and clouds above, we see an urban street message sprayed on the former warehouse near Waterloo. “Good as gold” or “as good as gold” are common English expressions meaning something is genuine or reliable. Referring to people, particularly children, they usually mean well behaved. “Good as gold” is one of numerous figures of speech involving gold as a desirable standard of some kind. The expression is a simile, an analogy used to describe something by comparing it to something else. The word “gold” itself is one of the oldest words in the English language.
    good_as_gold01-12-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Rising circular fairground ride with EU member flags and Millennium (ferris) Wheel on London's Southbank. Looking up from the ground, we see the theme of circles and silhouettes in an afternoon sky as fearless people on these rides enjoy the scary sensation of flying through the air. Flags of European nations fly from each gondola. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
    fairground_ride27-16-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Rising circular fairground ride with EU member flags and Millennium (ferris) Wheel on London's Southbank. Looking up from the ground, we see the theme of circles and silhouettes in an afternoon sky as fearless people on these rides enjoy the scary sensation of flying through the air. Flags of European nations fly from each gondola. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
    fairground_ride20-15-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Rising circular fairground ride with EU member flags and Millennium (ferris) Wheel on London's Southbank. Looking up from the ground, we see the theme of circles and silhouettes in an afternoon sky as fearless people on these rides enjoy the scary sensation of flying through the air. Flags of European nations fly from each gondola. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
    fairground_ride17-15-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Carers and elderly people from a nearby residential home take a daily walk to the seafront in Frinton, UK. As part of a daily walk, some important exercise for these still active pensioners, the uniformed staff take their charges out towards the seafront from the warmth of their home left behind. Walking slowly towards the promenade in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex. Some may be just unfit and others perhaps slightly confused or suffering from dementia or possibly just old and tired from the hardships after Britain at war. By 2050 the percentage of people worldwide over 65 years will have doubled.
    elderly_care-12-06-1992_1.jpg
  • The Australian character Dame Edna Everage looks over the street from a bus ad to a woman carrying an umbrella during autumnal London showers. In autumnal shower, the capital is dark apart from the bright colour of the brolly and the advertising banner across the side of the double-decker bus. Dame Edna is a character created and performed by Australian dadaist performer and comedian Barry Humphries, famous for her lilac-coloured or "wisteria hue" hair and cat eye glasses or "face furniture," her favourite flower, the gladiolus ("gladdies") and her boisterous greeting: "Hello, Possums!"
    edna_everage02-10-10-2013_1.jpg
  • City street corner plate glass reflection of new generation red double-decker Routemaster London bus. A man walks with the bus behind, driving the other way. <br />
The hybrid NB4L, or the Borismaster, New Routemaster or Boris Bus, is a 21st century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London and is said to be 40 per cent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel buses. The brainchild of London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, its funding has been controversial amid massive fare increases in transport.
    city_windows05-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Businessman walking through the Broadgate corporate offices development in the City of London. Walking down steps on his way to or from an appointment or meeting, the man checks an inside pocket as he makes his way into an area of reflected sunlight with the backdrop of the Broadgate development within the ancient boundary of the capital's Square Mile, it's financial district founded by the Romans in AD43.
    broadgate_silhouettes02-04-03-2014.jpg
  • Raid or search advice printed on a sheet and pasted to a Southwark wall, aimed at immigrants or asylum seekers stopped by the now defunct UK Border Agency and issued by network23.org, an anti-raids network - "Free anonymous WordPress blogs for activists and agitators." A bullet-point list of dos and don'ts advises those affected by a stop and search by immigration officials, telling them their rights and other information and including details of the network's web address.
    border_agency_advice01-27-03-2013_1.jpg
  • Travel agency screen featuring walking airline pilot with City of London walker background. The picture suggests a theme of walking - of the pedestrian making their way through the urban streets. The window belongs to an agency for booking holidays for city workers outside and the lure of summer holidays indoors, where workers can come in to book the getaways from the office or simply dream of beach fantasies in Asia, such as Thailand or Australia - faraway places that this company aims to bring closer.
    agency_reflection04-02-01-2015_1.jpg
  • Greek Cypriot mothers and wives known as "the women of the Barricades" hold pictures of their loved ones, husbands and sons, whose deaths or disapperances they blame on Turkey. They congregate regularly at the border crossing between the divided Nicosia, Cyprus
    cp_cyp_0105_1.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20140830_street art london_B.jpg
  • Street art in the East End of London is an ever changing visual enigma, as the artworks constantly change, as councils clean some walls or new works go up in place of others. While some consider this vandalism or graffiti, these artworks are very popular among local people and visitors alike, as a sense of poignancy remains in the work, many of which have subtle messages.
    20150119_street art shoreditch_D.jpg
  • A workman wipes the ceiling of a vacant office building in the City of London. Reaching high above his head, the man uses a squeegee-type mop to clean the shiny surfaces of the ceiling and light fittings before the completion of these new corporate floors, currently unoccupied by the tenant or owner and with fixtures, fittings and furnishings still to be fitted by the property's management. Work has yet to be completed before the hundreds or thousands of employees can move in to this building in the heart of the UK capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    vacant_offices06-06-01-2014_1_1.jpg
  • A workman wipes the ceiling of a vacant office building in the City of London. With a supervisor alongside, the worker reaches high above his head, the man uses a squeegee-type mop to clean the shiny surfaces of the ceiling and light fittings while appearing to be supervised by a second man who decides what needs cleaning next before the completion of these new corporate floors, currently unoccupied by the tenant or owner and with fixtures, fittings and furnishings still to be fitted by the property's management. Work has yet to be completed before the hundreds or thousands of employees can move in to this building in the heart of the UK capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in AD43.
    vacant_offices04-06-01-2014_1_1.jpg
  • Local children from varying family backgrounds and ethnicities get stuck in with a heave-ho on a large rope for the best of three tug war games during a community park festival. As part of an annual event in Ruskin Park in the London borough of Lambeth, neighbours and friends meet for an afternoon of self-initiated events including this contest of strength and teamwork. Both big kids and younger people join in and either help pull or simply hang on as the rope on their side either wins or loses.
    tug_o_war01-23-06-2012_1_1.jpg
  • A red London Routemaster bus passes beneath large posters for the Garrick theatre's latest West End play, Twelve Angry Men, on Charing Cross Road. Stopped in traffic, the bus takes passengers on a route through the heart of Theatreland, south towards Trafalgar Square. On the side of the bus is the title of another production, the musical Mormon which is a big hit in the capital. The hybrid NB4L, or the Borismaster, New Routemaster or Boris Bus, is a 21st century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London and is said to be 40 per cent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel buses. The brainchild of London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson, its funding has been controversial amid massive fare increases in transport.
    london_theatre01-13-02-2014.jpg
  • Tourist passengers enjoy the ride in the pods of the  London eye tourist attraction on the Southbank. The Union Jack flag flies in a stiff breeze at the bottom of the picture with the Eye in the background. The London Eye's  rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning the capsules that hold a family or group of fare-paying passengers in pods travel at a stately 26cm per second, or 0.9km (0.6 miles) per hour. Since opening in 2000, an average of 3.75 million visitors have experienced London’s most-visited attraction each year while the modernist Festival Hall, which was built as part of the post-war Festival of Britain of 1951 though altered in 1964.
    london_eye01-03-02-2014.jpg
  • A multi-ethnic crowd enjoys a heatwave in the Herne Hill lido, south London, England. A mixture of cultural backgrounds and ethnicities celebrate the warm weather together either in the waters or on the poolside concrete. The water is blue and the skin is either white, sunburned pink or black afro-Carribean. The laughter is genuine with these Londoners relishing this local open-air mecca for healthy sun worship. This lido was opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994. Brockwell Lido was designed by HA Rowbotham and TL Smithson of the London County Council's Parks Department to replace Brockwell Park bathing pond.
    lido_summer02-25-08-1995.jpg
  • Rising circular fairground ride with EU member flags and Millennium (ferris) Wheel on London's Southbank. Looking up from the ground, we see the theme of circles and silhouettes in an afternoon sky as fearless people on these rides enjoy the scary sensation of flying through the air. Flags of European nations fly from each gondola. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
    fairground_ride35-16-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Rising circular fairground ride with EU member flags and Millennium (ferris) Wheel on London's Southbank. Looking up from the ground, we see the theme of circles and silhouettes in an afternoon sky as fearless people on these rides enjoy the scary sensation of flying through the air. Flags of European nations fly from each gondola. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
    fairground_ride28-16-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Rising circular fairground ride with EU member flags and Millennium (ferris) Wheel on London's Southbank. Looking up from the ground, we see the theme of circles and silhouettes in an afternoon sky as fearless people on these rides enjoy the scary sensation of flying through the air. Flags of European nations fly from each gondola. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
    fairground_ride18-15-09-2014_1.jpg
  • Locals sift through second-hand possessions below a Goodtimes ad during a Sunday car boot sale in a supermarket car park. Stalls have been set up at the rear of family cars and their contents are displayed for passers-by to browse and haggle for thrifty bargains. Car boot/trunk sales or boot/trunk fairs are a mainly British form of market in which private individuals come together to sell household and garden goods. The term refers to the selling of items from a car's boot or trunk.
    car_boot01-08-04-2012_1.jpg
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