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  • A local passer-by and a property development ad on wall in east London borough of Stratford, Newham, home of 2012 Olympics. The 2012 Olympics has sparked a house price boom in east London but there are fears for this old East End neighbourhood as young professionals and penthouses push up Stratford house prices. Since London won the bid in 2005, talk of east London's Olympic property boom has proved both myth and reality. Even amid the worst recession since the 1930s, it was assumed that at least one corner of the country would be impregnable to house price doom. For some, this is true: parts of Hackney have recorded average rises of up to 56% between July 2005 and May 2011. But for other, less gentrified areas, it has been a different story; in Stratford the increase was 13%.
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  • London, UK. Wednesday 1st August 2012. The Men's Individual Time Trial cycling event passes through Twickenham on route to find the fastest male cyclist. Rider Lars Boom of the Netherlands.
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  • London, UK. Wednesday 1st August 2012. The Men's Individual Time Trial cycling event passes through Twickenham on route to find the fastest male cyclist. Rider Lars Boom of the Netherlands.
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  • Press photographer at work in Whitehall during the London Taxi strike over the Uber mobile App. Using a camera on a 5 metre boom pole controlled from his mobile phone. Thousands of London's Black Cabs  brought parts of central London to a standstill. Whitehall, Central London, 11th June 2014
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  • The One Canada Square is seen soon after its completion in the early-1990s. Seen from a low angle inside the dome of Cabot Square shopping mall, we see the tall building rising above us. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape. One Canada Square (often incorrectly called Canary Wharf, after its location) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It was the tallest building in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2010, standing at 235 metres (770 ft) above ground level and containing 50 storeys.
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  • Canary Wharf tower seen through a telephoto lens from across West India Docks, London Docklands, East London England. We see dozens of office windows illuminated by individual green ambient light and in some windows, office workers can be seen at their desks. It is late in the working day but feverish business continues into the night. There is a strong graphic feel to the image, relying on the blank, unlit windows where other employees of their companies have left earlier and switched off their lights to save electric power. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • A corner of One Canada Square is seen soon after its completion in the early-1990s. A street light has just been turned on in the early evening and the offices inside the tower also start to brighten the corporate spaces. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape. One Canada Square (often incorrectly called Canary Wharf, after its location) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It was the tallest building in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2010, standing at 235 metres (770 ft) above ground level and containing 50 storeys.
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  • A businessman wearing a light summer suit and carrying a briefcase walks away in the opposite direction to Canary Wharf tower which is seen over his shoulder from across a tree-lined Brockwell Park in South London, approximately 7.5 miles away. The flattened-perspective is because of an extremely long telephoto lens making it seem closer than it is in reality. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • Canary Wharf tower seen through a telephoto lens from across West India Docks, London Docklands, East London England. We see dozens of office windows illuminated by fragmented solar light from a rising sun. Office windows reflect that golden orange light which underexposes the darkened sky behind and the remainder of the building. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s  financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • Canary Wharf tower seen from below, London Docklands, East London England. A pedestrian light shows both green for walk and red for don't walk while a street light that has just been illuminated starts to glow on the right. Blue light of the late day and an overcast sky makes the scene gloomy and slightly threatening. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • Against orange evening light, a forest of high-rise cranes stand upright at the masive Canary Wharf development on London's Docklands, England. It is early evening and the crane drivers have left for the day, the day's shift have stopped work before resuming tomorrow. The silhouetted lines of each structure stand out clearly against the skyline before the regeneration of this region of East London grows upward. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • A man walks through an old neighbourhood restored for tourism in Chengdu, China, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. China faces unprecedented challenges as it restructures its economy away from old-line heavy manufacturing and toward consumption and services.
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  • A pedestrian walks through the central business district of Chengdu, China, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. China faces unprecedented challenges as it restructures its economy away from old-line heavy manufacturing and toward consumption and services.
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  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • New contractions for apartment buildings are seen reflected in distortion on the glass panel of a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. owned and operated Sams Club store during its opening day in Tianjin, China, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016.
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  • A motorcyclist rides a scooter through an intersection in the central business district of Chengdu, China, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. China faces unprecedented challenges as it restructures its economy away from old-line heavy manufacturing and toward consumption and services.
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  • A motorcyclist rides a scooter through an intersection in the central business district of Chengdu, China, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. China faces unprecedented challenges as it restructures its economy away from old-line heavy manufacturing and toward consumption and services.
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  • A pedestrian walks past a billboard advert for residential housing featuring western butlers in Chengdu, China, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. China faces unprecedented challenges as it restructures its economy away from old-line heavy manufacturing and toward consumption and services.
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  • A pedestrian walks through the central business district of Chengdu, China, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. China faces unprecedented challenges as it restructures its economy away from old-line heavy manufacturing and toward consumption and services.
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  • A man walks down an alley  as residential buildings stand under construction in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016.
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  • Residential buildings stand near the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016.
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  • A man stands next to statues of the QQ mascot outside Tencent Holdings Ltd.s current headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. The new headquarters for Tencent, a Chinese internet giant and maker of popular apps such as QQ and WeChat,  is a $599 million project aimed at creating a campus-like atmosphere for the urban setting. Scheduled for completion next year, the Shenzhen skyscraper could become one of the largest labs for new internet services and connected devices.
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  • Residential buildings stand in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016.
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  • A man stands next to statues of the QQ mascot outside Tencent Holdings Ltd.s current headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. The new headquarters for Tencent, a Chinese internet giant and maker of popular apps such as QQ and WeChat,  is a $599 million project aimed at creating a campus-like atmosphere for the urban setting. Scheduled for completion next year, the Shenzhen skyscraper could become one of the largest labs for new internet services and connected devices.
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  • A man walks past Tencent Holdings Ltd.s new headquarters, as it stands under construction in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. The new headquarters for Tencent, a Chinese internet giant and maker of popular apps such as QQ and WeChat,  is a $599 million project aimed at creating a campus-like atmosphere for the urban setting. Scheduled for completion next year, the Shenzhen skyscraper could become one of the largest labs for new internet services and connected devices.
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  • A passenger looks at a smartphone on a subway train in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016.
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  • A man walks past Tencent Holdings Ltd.s new headquarters, center left, stand under construction at dawn in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. The new headquarters for Tencent, a Chinese internet giant and maker of popular apps such as QQ and WeChat,  is a $599 million project aimed at creating a campus-like atmosphere for the urban setting. Scheduled for completion next year, the Shenzhen skyscraper could become one of the largest labs for new internet services and connected devices.
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  • A man walks past Tencent Holdings Ltd.s new headquarters, center left, stand under construction at dawn in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. The new headquarters for Tencent, a Chinese internet giant and maker of popular apps such as QQ and WeChat,  is a $599 million project aimed at creating a campus-like atmosphere for the urban setting. Scheduled for completion next year, the Shenzhen skyscraper could become one of the largest labs for new internet services and connected devices.
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  • Tencent Holdings Ltd.s new headquarters, center left, stand under construction at dawn in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. The new headquarters for Tencent, a Chinese internet giant and maker of popular apps such as QQ and WeChat,  is a $599 million project aimed at creating a campus-like atmosphere for the urban setting. Scheduled for completion next year, the Shenzhen skyscraper could become one of the largest labs for new internet services and connected devices.
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  • Pedestrians walk across a footbridge near new apartment constructions in Chongqing, China, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The municipality of 30 million people saw state-led development approach fueled the fastest pace nationwide, with President Xi Jinping praising policy innovations that have included subsidized housing and relaxed residency rules that encourage labor mobility.
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  • Pedestrians walk across a footbridge near new apartment constructions in Chongqing, China, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The municipality of 30 million people saw state-led development approach fueled the fastest pace nationwide, with President Xi Jinping praising policy innovations that have included subsidized housing and relaxed residency rules that encourage labor mobility.
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  • Pedestrians walk across a footbridge near new apartment constructions in Chongqing, China, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The municipality of 30 million people saw state-led development approach fueled the fastest pace nationwide, with President Xi Jinping praising policy innovations that have included subsidized housing and relaxed residency rules that encourage labor mobility.
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  • Pedestrians walk across a footbridge near new apartment constructions in Chongqing, China, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The municipality of 30 million people saw state-led development approach fueled the fastest pace nationwide, with President Xi Jinping praising policy innovations that have included subsidized housing and relaxed residency rules that encourage labor mobility.
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  • Pedestrians walk across a footbridge near new apartment constructions in Chongqing, China, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The municipality of 30 million people saw state-led development approach fueled the fastest pace nationwide, with President Xi Jinping praising policy innovations that have included subsidized housing and relaxed residency rules that encourage labor mobility.
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  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners crowd inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Veiled Londoner inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Aerial view of Londoners crowding inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • New Met police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and Londoners inside during the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners outside the Speedo shop soon to open, on the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners outside the Bosco shop soon to open, on the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners flock to the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Londoners flock to see the opening day of the Westfield Stratford shopping mall. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Commuters walk about in all directions in the heat of summer in the city during a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. As a result of the industrial action, the buses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk. People near Victoria Station, a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes so we see businessmen in dark suits during the heatwave, women striding along towards their transport home and we look up at them from a low-angle in the street. One man seems to pause from indecision while others are more confident about their fate and direction in life.
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  • Commuters to-and-fro in the heat of a city summer during a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we see masses of pedestrians and buses reflected in the glass of a bush shelter window. As a result of the industrial action, the buses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk. An official points out directions, someone shields his eyes from the sun, a lady walks with her hands in pockets, the 239 bus to Victoria approaches and sightseeing tours sign advertises tickets. People are seen in differing scales and sizes.
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  • An Evening Standard newspaper headline announces the fury of London commuters' at a 3-day underground tube strike in September 2007. This is Victoria mainline station during a summer heatwave. It's a transport hub for tube lines, buses and overground train routes and we also see a stressed and exasperated-looking commuter walking past this kiosk with a Starbucks coffee container in hand, needing to get into work rather than take public transport. As a result of the industrial action, the busses are full so the quickest way of reaching one's destination is to walk.
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  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • An aspirational poster landscape adorning a wall hoarding at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. A chic couple show us their success and affluence with a table full of food and drink. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • London transport logos on a pillar at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home and main arrival point for rail travellers to the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium
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  • Aerial view of consumer shoppers at Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Local shoppers and consumers walk below a giant sign to the high-street retailer Marks & Spencer with the names of other brands on a pillar. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. In the windows we see mannequins and models wearing the latest styles of this high-street retailer. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Seen from an office block high vantage point, thousands of commuters pour northwards over London Bridge against the direction of queueing buses and cars. It is a scene about the transient business community and mass transport. The working population arrives early for work over the bridge in the City of London's historic financial district. We see the sunlit faces of those walking towards the viewer which echo the red tail lights of the stationary vehicles. So gridlocked is the traffic on the southbound carriageway, there is a lone cyclist stuck and squeezed between the curb and a double-decker bus. On the other side of the road, the street is almost empty of motors adding to the drama and chaos. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • During the evening rush hour, hundreds of rail commuters are queueing to board a Thameslink train which has just arrived on the platform at Farringdon Station in Clerkenwell, London England. Standing 10-deep, they patiently wait the next ride home southbound during a tube strike forced the closure of underground stations and making workers take alternative routes. Looking down from a high bridge we see the train's roof and the heads of those delayed and inconvenienced. It is another miserable journey home.
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  • In the heart of the City of London, a caterpillar tracked crane tears down the walls of an old 70s office block close to St Paul's Cathedral, England. As a pedestrian walks past the blue hoardings that protect passers-by like him, the rubble is piled high before being removed as spoil to make way for an brand new construction that appears in an artist's impression picture on the right, above two site engineers wearing fluorescent jackets and hard hats. This is a scene of renewal in London's financial district. Of optimism and regeneration as businesses invest in new workplaces and replacing the tired, old offices that cannot accommodate new computer and server cabling technology.
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  • Apartment balconies of new Housing Association accomodation in the 2012 Olympic development zone built by contractor Armore. This is in east London, a kilometre south of the 2012 London Olympic Park and stadium site. Purple colour themed balconies look both modern and attractive to poorer residents in this otherwise downtrodden borough of Newham and designed and built by contractor, Ardmore for Genesis Housing Association, 150 High Street, Stratford, 704 homes, in five new residential blocks, one of which, at over 132 metres, will be one of the highest residential towers in London.
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  • A mural of a tiled artwork and boundary sign of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. Situated on the perimeter fringe of the Olympic Park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • Striding urgently are a group of rail commuters emerging from London Bridge main line station in central London along a station concourse. Marching in step, the strangers are on their way to work in the City of London or Southwark on the south bank of the Thames. They are all passing-by a mobile smoothie drink kiosk that has the slogan "Guaranteed to keep you going till lunch." London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
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  • A male commuter disappears underground after a rail journey terminated at the London Bridge mainline station. Travelling downwards into the London Underground tube system, the man seen as a generic silhouette is seen only from the upper legs and moves against the orange light from the escalator well wall. The polished machinery is in the foreground and the floor is spotlessley clean. London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old from the mid-sixties plays amongst lavender in his parents’ property. He has the face of boyhood innocence as he traipses through the garden. It is the summer of 1967 and the colours are muted on this Kodachrome film slide which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • With a look of delight on her face, a four year-old girl stamps through fallen snow in a field near her home in Bielefeld, Germany. Wearing a vibrant red bobble hat and matching coat, she smiles towards the viewer with the pleasure of any child enjoying the excitement of fresh snow. Ski or sledge tracks can be seen at her feet but she is the only person in this empty landscape, as if she's walking on her own through the snowy hills. It is the winter of 1967 and the reds are very vibrant and dominant from the Kodachrome film used which also has a wonderful muted blue colour cast in the mid-tones giving the picture a chilly, wintry feel reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded and dated look.
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  • A young blonde girl of approximately 3 years-old stands on a lawn looking delighted. She giggles with great mirth at something that pleases her - possibly the way her father has posed her as if she's a ballerina, or maybe because it is her birthday and her present is the blue dress she is showing off to the viewer. The girl holds out her arms while holding a special pair of sunglasses. It is the summer of 1967 and this is a housing estate for British soldiers stationed in Bielefeld, Germany still during the Cold War. The girl's father is a solder serving in the British Army and the they all live in a house nearby with other expat families. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones and where a small light-leak has affected the far right, reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
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  • A portrait of three brothers of the same family have their picture taken outside their parents' home in Westcliff, England. The eldest is a teenager of approximately 17 and  is holding his youngest brother who is still only 12 months-old. The third boy is biting his lip while looking to the viewer, more anxiously than the other two. He is possibly 14 but both the elder lads wear identically-designed jumpers that cut across the throat to allow their clean white shirts and ties to remain visible. Apart from the young child, the elders share the same dark hair colour but genetically, they share one chromosome that has given them heavy eyebrows, a family trait. This was taken on Kodachrome film stock in the spring of 1961 so the look and feel of the image is dated with wonderfully muted colours that this Kodak film offered to consumers in the early 60s.
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  • A little boy wearing a blue jump suit stands on the pavement outside his house holding the handlebars of a favourite matching blue coloured tricycle. He looks upwards towards the viewer slightly bemused about having his picture taken by his father who looks down from a standing position. Meanwhile, the boys sister towers above him dressed in a bright red coat and clean white gloves and short white socks. Alongside her is a friend also wearing gloves and a knee-length skirt but we see only their lower bodies and not their faces so they are unrecognisable - an older sibling and a girl friend. It is the summer of 1960 and while the red is vibrant, the blues and greens are more muted in this Kodachrome film which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look
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  • A portrait of a mother in her 41st year has been gathering heather in handfuls and holds up her young child who grins towards his father who is taking the picture at a park near the Essex seaside town of Southend. It is the summer of 1960 and the mum's dress is styled from the previous decade: blue with white spots and pearl necklace. She too is smiling as she grasps the flowers and her child on a warm day. Oddly, the boy looks as though he is wearing a girl's dress which may have been a hand-me-down from an older sibling or just the trend then.
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  • A housewife poses in her still undecorated home surrounded by material possessions bought with a credit card during the must-have economy. Shot in an era of Thatcherite must-have materialism, when the credit economy was a way of life for millions, decades before the recessions and financial crashes of the Noughties, this lady holds up her Visa card and glass of red wine. Surrounded by her purchases bought on credit, she smiles at us with economic confidence.
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  • City workers walk past a giant office at the 100 Bishopsgate building project by the Brookfield Multiplex company, aconstruction development in the financial district City of London. Heading past the cranes and girders of this large site, we see the people pacing past en route to meetings and appointments. The Brookfield Multiplex builds, engineers, develops and maintains property and infrastructure around the world. Over the past five decades we have successfully completed over 726 major projects, with a combined value of over $27.5 billion in Australasia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The 100 Bishopsgate development will become one of the most significant new commercial office buildings in the City comprising 3 buildings totalling c815,000sf NIA.
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  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America’s habit and dependency on car culture.
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  • New apartment balconies in recently completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park. Developers are building 4m sq ft of offices and 350 homes. Inter Ikea, proposed 1,200 homes and up to 500,000 sq ft of commercial space at a 26-acre site just 500 metres south of the Olympic Park. Houses close to the Olympic Park in Stratford have increased in value by £800 a month meaning average house prices have increased by £60,000, or 30pc. Also, short-term rentals in London in July 2012 is £2,858 per week, an increase of 444pc one year before the Games.
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  • TV camera man filming from atop a crane beside a security CCTV camera. During the London Marathon.
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  • TV camera man filming from atop a crane beside a security CCTV camera. During the London Marathon.
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  • Architecture and design of the Westfield City shopping centre in Stratford, home of the 2012 Olympics. In the windows we see mannequins and models wearing the latest styles of this high-street retailer. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
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  • New apartment balconies in recently completed housing in Stratford, a short distance from the 2012 Olympic Park. Developers are building 4m sq ft of offices and 350 homes. Inter Ikea, proposed 1,200 homes and up to 500,000 sq ft of commercial space at a 26-acre site just 500 metres south of the Olympic Park. Houses close to the Olympic Park in Stratford have increased in value by £800 a month meaning average house prices have increased by £60,000, or 30pc. Also, short-term rentals in London in July 2012 is £2,858 per week, an increase of 444pc one year before the Games.
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  • Senior Conservative politician, Michael Heseltine speaks at a Tory Party rally, on 29th April 1997, in London, England. Present to rally support for British Prime Minister,John Major who went on to lose the election to Labours Tony Blair.
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  • Senior Conservative politician, Michael Heseltine speaks at a Tory Party rally, on 29th April 1997, in London, England. Present to rally support for British Prime Minister,John Major who went on to lose the election to Labours Tony Blair.
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  • Two employees give a guided tour of the Chateau Changyu Moser XV, which will be open to the public next May, in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China on 21 December  2012.  With its dry climates and ample sunshine, and encouraged by the huge boom in Chinese consumer's demand for wine, Ningxia is quickly becoming one of the biggest wine producing regions in China.
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  • A sheep herder stands in a field near the site of Chateau Saint Louis Ding, in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China on 20 December  2012.  With its dry climates and ample sunshine, and encouraged by the huge boom in Chinese consumer's demand for wine, Ningxia is quickly becoming one of the biggest wine producing regions in China.
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  • Workers sort empty bottle at Silver Heights, in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China on 19 December  2012.  With its dry climates and ample sunshine, and encouraged by the huge boom in Chinese consumer's demand for wine, Ningxia is quickly becoming one of the biggest wine producing regions in China.
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  • A wide panorama aerial landscape of London Docklands in 1991 looking east from a new apartment tower block on the Isle of Dogs. Rising tall is the new Canary Wharf tower (known as 1, Canada Square) soon after its completion - and before the subsequently extensive development phases. This docklands development in east London is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape. By 2012 Canary Wharf contained 14,000,000 square feet (1,300,000 m2) of office and retail space. Around 90,000 people work here and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations.
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  • A dock worker inspects a conveyer belt at an iron-ore transfer and storage center operated by the Shanghai International Port Group in Shanghai, China on 26 January 2010. China's economic boom and hunger for natural resources has been a blessing for countries such as Australia and Brazil, who controls most the world's high quality iron ore deposits.
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  • Anti Brexit, Remain demonstrator protest with his boom of flags in Westminster on the day after the ‘meaningful vote’ when MPs again rejected the Prime Minister’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and before a vote on removing the possibility of a No Deal Brexit on 13th March 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. With just over two weeks until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance.
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  • Anti Brexit, Remain demonstrator protest with his boom of flags in Westminster on the day after the ‘meaningful vote’ when MPs again rejected the Prime Minister’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and before a vote on removing the possibility of a No Deal Brexit on 13th March 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. With just over two weeks until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance.
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  • Anti Brexit, Remain demonstrator protest with his boom of flags in Westminster on the day after the ‘meaningful vote’ when MPs again rejected the Prime Minister’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and before a vote on removing the possibility of a No Deal Brexit on 13th March 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. With just over two weeks until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance.
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  • Anti Brexit, Remain demonstrator protest with his boom of flags in Westminster on the day after the ‘meaningful vote’ when MPs again rejected the Prime Minister’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and before a vote on removing the possibility of a No Deal Brexit on 13th March 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. With just over two weeks until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance.
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  • Artist Harsh Raman in front of his piece entitled Katha-Crazy Twins: Chiller Champa & Boom Bhaijaan on display in the Lodhi Colony area of New Delhi designated Indias first ever public art district.
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  • Buxton Street off Brick Lane, East London. June 8th 2014. Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair. An oil painting of a room to rent for £750 a month, indicative of the boom in property prices in what used to be a poor part of London, home to numerous artists.
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  • Two US Navy sailors walk past the statue of first President George Washington outside the Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street, New York City. A male and female personnel walk past this famous American landmark to see for themselves the site of many a notorious economic boom and crash. Federal Hall, built in 1700 as New York's City Hall, later served as the first capitol building of the United States of America under the Constitution, and was the site of George Washington's inauguration as the first President of the United States. It was also where the United States Bill of Rights was introduced in the First Congress. The building was demolished in 1812.
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  • Rwanda -Kigali. Sign for  new office construction in front of half completed building. Rwanda is currently undergoing a building boom.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a small replica of the Tiananmen gate in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China on 21 December  2012.  With its dry climates and ample sunshine, and encouraged by the huge boom in Chinese consumer's demand for wine, Ningxia is quickly becoming one of the biggest wine producing regions in China.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a small replica of the Tiananmen gate in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China on 21 December  2012.  With its dry climates and ample sunshine, and encouraged by the huge boom in Chinese consumer's demand for wine, Ningxia is quickly becoming one of the biggest wine producing regions in China.
    QS121221Yingchuan022_1_1.jpg
  • Residents fish on a frozen lake in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China on 21 December  2012.  With its dry climates and ample sunshine, and encouraged by the huge boom in Chinese consumer's demand for wine, Ningxia is quickly becoming one of the biggest wine producing regions in China.
    QS121221Yingchuan020_1_1.jpg
  • Residents fish on a frozen lake in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China on 21 December  2012.  With its dry climates and ample sunshine, and encouraged by the huge boom in Chinese consumer's demand for wine, Ningxia is quickly becoming one of the biggest wine producing regions in China.
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