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  • Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for Ernst & Young staff during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The people are either confidently pacing forward, standing still to seek guidance or simply spontaneously emerging from the shadows to a brighter future, a moment when freedom of choice is offered and the road ahead dictates their fate. It is a scene of corporate theate and each employee will attend this fair where pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and motivational gurus talk to large groups of E & Y personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • An elderly 1990s lady tries on a left show while standing over a choice of dozens of single items of footwear, in a daily market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France.
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  • High in the Nepali Himalayan foothills, travellers may be greeted by the welcoming relief of a group of mountain inns and hotels offering lodging to weary legs after many hours walking uphill in this gruelling landscape. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
    nepal_travel2612-12_1997.jpg
  • A menu of seminar room choices is placed near an entrance for those attending an Ernst & Young's counselling workshop held for employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Words like 'Visualise, Captivate, Innovate and Expand' are listed vertically on a perspex board as well as directions to amenities such as the toilet and an 'Internet Touchdown.' Soon, seminar participants will arrive for a day's role-playing and brainstorming in classrooms named after these concepts. Encouraging the students to be inspired by these verbs.
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  • Filled with suits, jackets, trousers, and overcoats, the choices of mens' office worker clothes fill a shop front window belonging to Mr Byrite, a high-street clothes store chain in London England UK. Bargain sale prices for the items of clothing are all over the window display, offering discounts for £30, £40 or £60 and the mannequins used to wear these clothes either have bald-headed representations of men, or faceless white models wearing sun glasses. There is a sale of cheap items attracting young city men, far from traditional work attire, and more fashionable for the day.
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  • In neat diagonal rows, young Nepali boys are crouching on the ground at the British Army's Gurkha base in Pokhara, Nepal where the Britain's Ministry of Defence recruits the best choices to become fully-trained soldiers in the UK's Gurkha Regiment. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • A priest walks past a luxury Mercedes car with a church colleague, holding a bunch of red flowers on a central Krakow street, on 24th September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Two Londoners - one wearing a face covering, and the other choosing not to, walk past a bus stop ad promoting basic personal hygiene like handwashibng,  in Victoria during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 6th August 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_ad02-06-08-2020.jpg
  • Near a menu of dishes, a customer eats a lunchtime Chinese meal in the window of a Soho eaterie. A grid of plates stuffed full of food consisting of noodles and rice items has been attached to the restaurant window to entice the customer from the street and onto a table. The man puts a fork of food into his mouth as he chats to an unseen friend at the table and a sign above says the emporium is Open.
    chinese_meal01-16-10-2012_1.jpg
  • The anti-EU membership 'UK Independence Party's (UKIP) political billboard shows leader Nigel Farage, a gagged Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour party leader Ed Milliband  - both silent against a bullying European Union, seen in East Dulwich - a relatively affluent district of south London. The ad is displayed before European elections on 22nd May.
    ukip_poster05-15-05-2014_1.jpg
  • A voter walks underneath an anti-EU membership 'UK Independence Party's (UKIP) political billboard shows leader Nigel Farage and a gagged Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour party leader Ed Milliband and (coaltion) Deputy PM Nick Clegg - all silent against a bullying European Union, seen in East Dulwich - a relatively affluent district of south London. The ad is displayed before European elections on 22nd May.
    ukip_poster01-15-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Two people of east Asian-descent look at Toshiba laptops displayed in a computer specialist in Tottenham Court Road - the centre for technology, gadgets and computing in central London. It is 1990 and the smaller, more portable laptop market is just taking off. The man takes notes on paper, writing prices, technical  specifications and offers for these Japanese-made items. Vying for sales with Toshiba in this particular window is Psion, Epson and Canon - all players in the early 1990s.
    toshiba_buyers-03-03-1990_1_1.jpg
  • Tourists inspect the menus outside a restaurant in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
    slovenia-504-27-06-2018.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Austrlian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-13-06-03-2018.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Australian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-07-06-03-2018.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Austrlian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-05-06-03-2018.jpg
  • Schoolchildren of many ages and ethnic backgrounds spend their morning break-time in their school playground in inner-city London. Faces of a variety of skin colours and expressions look to the viewer as the kids delight in having their picture taken. Their cheeky, mischievous grins make us smile as we remember our own pre-technology childhoods, an era before computers took our natural sense of outdoor fun away.
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  • A rack of quintessentially English ‘saucy postcards’ are on display in Scarborough, the northern seaside town. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
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  • Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill appear on a rack of postcards in Westminster, central London. A woman sorts through the tourist souvenirs, just visible after recent rain which has made the capital wet and so tourist trinkets and souvenirs have been covered with clear sheeting. We see the monarch the Queen and her former Prime Minister from Britain's wartime era, peering from behind the covering,
    queen_postcards01-06-05-2015_1.jpg
  • A local lady shopper looks at a display of a Polish shoe shop window, on 16th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-59-16-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of a Polish shoe shop window display, on 16th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Lit by early sun that filters through mountain peaks to this remote village near Ulleri, in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal, we see the veranda of a tea shop that serves weary travellers trekking the Annapurna Circuit and traditional doko basket. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary, a sometimes gruelling walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak - and beyond. Tea houses are dotted along the trail offering lodging, refreshments and basic, but delicious food to the weary traveller and the landscapes are often shared with local livestock.
    nepal_travel2312-12_1997.jpg
  • Seen through the window of a generic central London restaurant, we see a family, possibly tourists, seated in full view of the street's passers-by, while ordering their dinners from a waiter. The man is standing over them, writing down a mother's orders while at the next row of seats, a man is also telling his own waiter what his dinner will be. An Open sign has been placed to attract more trade into this business, a favourite among tourists visiting Theatreland in the capital's West End. It is early evening and the background street is dark with other businesses illuminated. Other couples and customers are also sitting at tables waiting for their food to arrive and in the foreground, a young man sips a glass of Coke from a straw.
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  • With his body in shade and only his head in the sun, a Portuguese man stands in the street of central Lisbon to read the headlines of national and provincial newspapers which are pinned by their top right corners for passers-by to glance at or buy. Lit by early morning sun, the daily or weekly periodicals are set in a neat row for the benefit of this man and other citizens of the Portuguese capital. Ornate square tile mosaics are set in the pavement (sidewalk) in a design style that Lisbon is well-known for. In an age of mass-communications, reading one's media on paper in such a manner already seems old fashioned.
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  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
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  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on a lady airline passengers struggling to separate two trolleys in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Photographs of properties are on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London. This is an affluent area of the capital, home to the well healed of the middle-classes and the values of these homes reflect their status in Clapham as a very expensive part in which to invest. Some are from the Edwardian era and others Victorian and even Georgian with freehold leases from £1.5 to £4 million at 2012 prices, in the middle of a recession.
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  • A hand steadies an awkward event banner showing the fleet of modern airliners belonging to European consortium, Airbus during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. From the top of the banner we see the short-haul A319 type to the bottom which has featured the long-range A340-600 version. Alongside each model's profile, we see the aircraft's statistics and performance figures. Airbus is the main competitor to the American Boeing range of modern airliners. Airbus is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, the company produces approximately half of the world's jet airliners, employing around 63,000 people at sixteen sites in four European Union countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain.
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  • Vacant desks and empty chairs are placed facing each other for an Ernst & Young's counselling workshop held for company employees at Prospect House, Borough, Southwark, London. Soon, employees of this seminar will arrive for a day's role-playing in this classroom setting where the office furnature makes a square to force participants to confront their opposite numbers. Jotter pads are provided for brainstorming ideas and concepts that help E & Y get the best out of their talented people. The room is otherwise empty as bright daylight floods through a window allowing positive thoughts and bright ideas to influence their thinking.
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  • A book-lover browses titles and editions under Waterloo Bridge on the Southbank, on 18th February 2000, in London, England.
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  • A detail of a rock and holiday souvenir seller in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. Standing in his shop, we see the owner of this seaside shop on the northwest England resort where buying seaside gifts and souvenirs is ever popular by visitors and daytrippers. In 1887, sugar-boiling factory owner Ben Bullock bought some plain stick candy band had the idea of putting ‘Blackpool Rock’ through the centre of the rock. Now a major industry in the holiday season in Britain and many seaside towns have their versions with their own names running through the rock. Modern seaside rock is thicker, about 1 inch, and more solid than the original form. Its sugar content is nowadays a reason not to buy as much, the adverse effects on teeth from sugar and colouring by the confectionary industry being a main reason for its decline.
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  • Somerset eating apples warm in afternoon sunshine on shelves outside the Pony and Trap pub, October 8th 2017, in Chew Magna, Somerset, England.
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  • Somerset eating apples warm in afternoon sunshine on shelves outside the Pony and Trap pub, October 8th 2017, in Chew Magna, Somerset, England.
    apple_shelves-03-08-10-2017.jpg
  • A blackboard listing the latest Ladbrokes betting prices on a Hung Parliament versus a majority voctoary for the Conservative Party in Britain's general election on 6th May 2010. Below the Palace of Westminster, in evening light, the Conservatives appear to be leading while without a majority, pointing to the possibility of a hung Parliament, the first time such a division of power since 1974.
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  • A blackboard listing the latest Ladbrokes betting prices on a Hung Parliament versus a majority voctoary for the Conservative Party in Britain's general election on 6th May 2010. Below the Palace of Westminster, in evening light, the Conservatives appear to be leading while without a majority, pointing to the possibility of a hung Parliament, the first time such a division of power since 1974.
    2010election_day44-06-05-2010_1.jpg
  • As an elderly man exits a Parish hall, three tellers from the main political parties check the addresses of voters in St. Barnabas Parish Church, Dulwich Village SE21 that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day. Their job is to record the election numbers of those about to vote, making sure that their political colleagues don't drop more literature in to that address, now that the occupants have voted.
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  • Three tellers from the main political parties check the addresses of voters in Herne Hill Methodist Church SE21 that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day. Their job is to record the election numbers of those about to vote, making sure that their political colleagues don't drop more literature in to that address, now that the occupants have voted.
    2010election_day16-06-05-2010_1.jpg
  • A Labour Party sign is clearly seen at a bus stop opposite St. Saviour's Church, Herne Hill SE24 that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day.
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  • A bike rests against railings at St. Saviour's Church, Herne Hill SE24 that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day.
    2010election_day08-06-05-2010_1.jpg
  • Xu Zhen, 26 and her two children Xu Feng, 5 (daughter) and Yang Chao Heng, 2 (son) from Hunan province, are staying with her mother, Wu Shu Lin, 50, at her home in, Guangxi province. Zhen is six months pregnant with her third child. If the authorities found out, they could force her to have a termination so she will only travel back to her province once the baby is born (its identity will not be linked to her husband's name that way) Many women get around the policy this way...Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_44_1.jpg
  • Gao Wen Hong, 41, is CEO of a cosmetics company. Her husband, Wang Wei, also 41, is the director. They have one daughter, Wang YingChen, 7 who is top of the class at her primary school which has the best results in Beijing. Wen Hong says she prefers to have only one child so she can put all her resources into her. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_48_1.jpg
  • Sun Linang, 30 is a single, full-time mother to her daughter Du Jing Peng, 5. They are pictured at the 'Spendid China? miniature village park in Shenzhen, where they live. Linang is divorced but would like to find a new partner, ideally with no children of his own so that if they decided to have one together, they would not have to pay...Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_43_1.jpg
  • Shu Tia Chen, 32 an accountant and her husband, Gan Yafei, 33 a project manager for IBN and their son, Gan Muze, 3, They live in  in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. ?People who have more than one child don't care about their jobs. We know people in the West think the one child policy is an abuse of human rights? says Yafei  ?but in developing countries there are more important things to worry about- like putting food on the table."..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly. .
    china_onechild_29_1.jpg
  • Wan Yuanxiu, 39 is a farmer. She lives with her son, Xi Chuanjun, 6 in Guangxi province. Her husband is a removal man in the city and only comes home a few times a year. She has another son, now 20, from her first husband who died nine years ago and is now sterilsied. In some provinces, after a woman has had a child, and certainly more than one, she will often be summoned to a clinic to be sterilized by the authorities. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_30_1.jpg
  • Cai Dong Yan, 30 an insurance broker and her husband Lin Ru, 29 who sells futures for a financial company live in Quixa, Shandong provionce, with their son, Lin Yi Ran who is two. Dong Yan got sterilized last year because she cannot afford to have an accident. It is not compulsory to be sterilized in China after having one child but it is encouraged and the government give a token financial reward to families who get a certificate to prove they have been sterilized. .Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_38_1.jpg
  • The anti-EU membership 'UK Independence Party's (UKIP) political billboard shows leader Nigel Farage and a gagged Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour party leader Ed Milliband and (coaltion) Deputy PM Nick Clegg - all silent against a bullying European Union, seen in East Dulwich - a relatively affluent district of south London. The ad is displayed before European elections on 22nd May.
    ukip_poster03-15-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Tourists and London theatreland productions booking office posters, on 15th August 2017, in London, England.
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  • British actor Eileen Atkins and London theatreland productions booking office posters on 15th August 2017, in London, England. She and Jonathan Pryce appear in The Height Of The Storm at the Wyndham’s Theatre.
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  • London theatreland productions booking office posters on 15th August 2017, in London, England.
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  • A diagonal view of an exterior of a local corner shop stocking loose nutritious fruit and veg from the shelves including oranges, bananas, apples and grapes, outside a shop in Bromley town centre where local businesses offer fresher and cheaper foodstuffs than the larger supermarkets, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England.
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  • From the side of a road in south London, we see a group of naked female mannequins, standing and sitting with furniture on the forecourt of an office supplies business. A clearance sign stands partly-obscured but one’s attention is to the physiques of each model that tends to signify whichever the fashion industry has decreed is the ‘look’ of the decade – whether buxom or skinny – and shop windows are therefore occupied with the clothing shapes of the day. Some women stand in that classic fashion pose, with arms at the side and one leg in front of the other, or sitting with one leg elegantly crossed: All designed to make the clothes they wear look attractive.
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  • Beneath the church of St Mary le Strand, a bus stop at Aldwych, showing bus routes going south towards Waterloo and the Southbank in central London. With the numbers of bus services listed vertically on the sign post, we look from a low angle, up at the information post, a blue efternoon sky and the rising spire of St Mary's, its shiny clock showing 5.30pm. A red London bus can be seen lower left too, en route to its destination elsewhere in the capital. TfL-sponsored operators run more than 500 services and the word bus is derived from the word Onmibus (the Latin for 'everyone').
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  • Two men smoke cigarettes in a London restaurant in the era of public, indoor smoking. The two friends have finished their long lunch and sit back to enjoy the after meal experience of inhaling the smoke, their faces showing the pleasures of an otherwise addiction to the tobacco filled cigarette. This is the upside though and The smoking ban came into effect  in England on 1st July 2007; in Scotland on 26 March 2006; in Wales on 2 April 2007 and in Northern Ireland on 30 April 2007. But publicans and breweries reported a drop in sales to the smoking ban, their lowest level since the 1930s.
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  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Australian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-12-06-03-2018.jpg
  • The enticing shop window of Doughnut Time on Old Street in Shoreditch and near Old Street roundabout, 7th March 2018, in London England. Doughnut Time is the creation of Australian entrepreneur Damian Griffiths, and has rapidly become an Australian success story with over 23 locations.
    shoreditch_donuts-01-06-03-2018.jpg
  • A local supermarket window display showing the retail products being sold in a Kensington convenience store, on 30th December 2018, in London England.
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  • A local supermarket window display showing the retail products being sold in a Kensington convenience store, on 30th December 2018, in London England.
    shop_window-05-30-12-2018.jpg
  • A local supermarket window display showing the retail products being sold in a Kensington convenience store, on 30th December 2018, in London England.
    shop_window-03-30-12-2018.jpg
  • A local supermarket window display showing the retail products being sold in a Kensington convenience store, on 30th December 2018, in London England.
    shop_window-01-30-12-2018.jpg
  • Pensioners on holiday - or on a daytrip - at the Nofilk seaside town of Great Yarmouth wait for a friend beneath a wide banner advertising a Karaoke event at the venue behind them that night. There are four old ladies and one man in the group, all dressed in summer clothes for their day at the beach. Only the gentleman is looking our way as the women are otherwise occupied. There is litter at their feet and garish posters are behind them. The man is outnumbered, a gender ratio of 4 to 1.
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  • A fruit stall selling citrus and other varieties such as strawberries, avocados, cherries and melon, in Mercado do Bolhao, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. The 19th-century, wrought-iron Mercado do Bolhão does a brisk trade in fresh produce, including cheeses, olives, smoked meats, sausages, breads and more. At its lively best on Friday and Saturday mornings, the market is also sprinkled with inexpensive stalls where you can eat fish so fresh it was probably swimming in the Atlantic that morning, or taste or sample local wines and cheeses.
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  • A display of shoes and their shoe boxes beneath a large photo of spruce forests and peaks of the nearby Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament and jogger on the Embankment. Passing-by at speed with a slight blur, the male sportsman runs by the racks of colourful postcards showing London scenes, their prices written on makeshift marker on a white board. Beyond is Westminster Bridge that stretches of the River Thames, towards the British Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben's clock tower rising high above. It is a fine sunny day and a woman is writing more prices for tourist mementoes of another board, leaning on the river wall. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster.
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  • Spectators choose flags to but at an official Olympic merchandise stall on the first day of competition of the London 2012 Olympic 250km mens' road race. Starting from central London and passing the capital's famous landmarks before heading out into rural England to the gruelling Box Hill in the county of Surrey. Local southwest Londoners lined the route hoping for British favourite Mark Cavendish to win Team GB first medal but were eventually disappointed when Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov eventually won gold.
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  • Many pairs of anti-slip Acifort Wellington boots are awaiting users at the New England seafood suppliers in Chessington, London England. Made by British company Dunlop, these boots are designed as protection against the cold , insulating wearers in refrigerated workplaces such as this facility where fresh fish is processed ready for supplying UK supermarkets. Either showing their soles or standing on the floor alongside the wearers' outdoor footwear, they are coloured various shades of clean off-white or soiled cream. New England Seafood is a major supplier of fresh and frozen premium sustainable fish and seafood in the UK and one of the largest importers of fresh tuna. The Wellington boot -or wellie - was worn and popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and fashionable among the British aristocracy in the early 19th century.
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  • A sun symbol belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (UML - Unified Marxist Leninist) is seen before elections in a wide landscape of a Himalayan valley in the Gorkha district, one of the 75 districts of central Nepal. Beyond the red-painted sign that has been painted in red on a footpath rock, unavoidable by community passers-by, are fertile terraces where rice and other agricultural crops are growing to sustain villages in these foothills. The light is clear and we can see into the far distance to valleys and hills beyond.
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  • Fruit and buyers in the narrow streets of the Bairro Alto district - or Upper City - the oldest of Lisbon's residential quarters. A local woman across the narrow, high-sided street, yawns while an orange and apple seller looks for her next customer on the cobbled lane. <br />
Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a different personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.
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  • Fish and buyers in the narrow streets of the Bairro Alto district - or Upper City - the oldest of Lisbon's residential quarters. Locals inspect the catches of the day, caught in the seas off the Portuese capital and coasts. In the background are crowds of visitors in the narrow, high-sided street. Lisbon's Bairro Alto quarter is located above Baixa and developed in the 16th Century. Suffering very little damage in the earthquake of 1755, it remains the area of most character and renowned for its residential and working quarter for craftsmen and shopkeepers. At night, life takes on a different personality when bars and up until the 60s, prostitution gave the district a bad reputation in the past but nowadays tourists and the chic frequent its streets and traditional 'Fado' (classical Portuguese opera) bars.
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  • Looking as if from a past era, two ladies examine shoes at a 1986 jumble sale in the south Wales town of Abergavenney, Monmouthshire. Both are holding right-foot shoes that might suit them at this charity event held by the local Lions club, whose volunteers help the elderly and the disadvantaged within their community. We see some of the clothing piled up on trestle tables but the ladies’ attention is just on their finds which are within their price range, having to survive on meagre pensions.
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  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on a lady airline passengers struggling to separate two trolleys in the baggage reclaim hall in the arrivals of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Photographs of properties are on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London. This is an affluent area of the capital, home to the well healed of the middle-classes and the values of these homes reflect their status in Clapham as a very expensive part in which to invest. Some are from the Edwardian era and others Victorian and even Georgian with freehold leases from £1.5 to £4 million at 2012 prices, in the middle of a recession.
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  • Photographs of properties are on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London. This is an affluent area of the capital, home to the well healed of the middle-classes and the values of these homes reflect their status in Clapham as a very expensive part in which to invest. Some are from the Edwardian era and others Victorian and even Georgian with freehold leases from £1.5 to £4 million at 2012 prices, in the middle of a recession.
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  • Electric Gibson guitars in Sunburst and other colours in a music shop window on London's Charing Cross Road. American guitar manufacturer have the reputation of countless musicians around the world who play quality music with a superior instrument. Labels in this window tell us that a 1959 Les Paul; a 1958 Yellow and others are priced at between £3-5000. Their precision engineering and design attracting buyers from around the world to this area of London called Tin Pan Alley - essentially located in London's Denmark Street though now being displaced because of rising lease and rent rates.
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  • Two men prefer to sit on the steps of the Guildhall Art Gallery, rather than on available chairs, on 14th September 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
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  • A portrait of a lady fishmonger and her shellfish in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth. Holding up a tray of fish and shellfish, the lady proudly stands outside her kiosk in the centre of this eastern England seaside resort. A pot of shrimps, some crabs, salmon steaks and traditional kippers are shown to us. In the background are cod fillets, prawns and other smoked fish.
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  • Peering through the steamy window of a Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown district, we see the shapes and forms of kitchen staff and customers in this lively scene. In the window are rows of Peking Duck with their skins cooked a crispy dark brown. Meanwhile, surrounded by cooking utensils and implements, the tools of their trade, two chefs busy themselves in the kitchen area, one's face shows him to be ethnic Chinese who is rubbing his hands in a cloth before continuing his chores. Two European girls are waiting expectantly for their dishes to arrive. Obscured by the steam and heat, a waiter in green bustles about this small eaterie.
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  • A passer-by stands next to a menu from a Chinese restaurant in Gerrard Street in London's Chinatown, England. The words Dim Sum Daily are displayed in neon lights above the person's head, its translated message is written on the top in Chinese characters. In the clear window we can see rows of Peking duck. It is early evening and the street is full of colour from the artificial lighting that creates an inviting mood for those browsing the menus on offer in this lively part of London's West End. The pedestrian is partly silhouetted and she stands in profile looking straight ahead as if ignoring what is on offer.
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  • Acrylic teeth samples displayed at Ivoclar Vivadent in Schaan, Liechtenstein who export 60 million false dentures a year worldwide. A board of dental specimens are laid out like grinning mouths at the company showroom. False teeth are Liechtenstein's leading export: Located in the municipality of Schaan, just north of the capital Vaduz, Ivoclar Vivadent is a global dental behemoth. The 60 million artificial teeth the company manufactures annually in 10,000 different shades and shapes, account for 40 per cent of all the false teeth sold in Europe and 20 per cent worldwide. With a turnover of some 600 million Swiss francs, Ivoclar has 1.3 million dentists in 120 countries using its products.
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  • Window display showing the retail products being sold in a Kensington convenience store, on 31st August 2017, in London England.
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  • Coffee drinkers sit in the seasonally Xmas decorated window of a branch of Caffe Nero in the weeks before Christmas. Seen from outside, we see two men sit with tie backs to the street while a lady sits sideways working on a laptop computer. The company have displayed a series of reindeer, snowmen and ice crystals along with the coffee varieties that Nero is known for in the UK. Gerry Ford founded Caffè Nero in 1997 and today, Caffè Nero has over 500 stores globally with more than 4,000 employees.
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  • A portrait of a local butcher in the Essex seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea. Proud of his produce of fresh joints and carcasses of fresh meat, his business shows a successful and protitable financial concern in this Essex seaside town, largely inhabited by the older generation. We see in the background, hanging pork on hooks and beef joints in the display cabinet with a model of a butcher with his chopping block. A butcher is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock, butchers formed guilds in England as far back as 1272. Today, many jurisdictions offer trade certifications for butchers. Some areas expect a three-year apprenticeship followed by the option of becoming a master butcher.
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  • Bodyboards on sale in the north Devon coastal village of Combe Martin. Various characters from the movie industry are represented on the top surfaces, attracting the younger buyer. The bodyboard differs from a surfboard in the fact that it is much shorter and made out of foam. Bodyboarding has been around since ancient Hawaiian days, it was called "Paipo" and was made out of koa wood. The modern board consists of a foam 'core' encapsulated by a plastic bottom and a softer foam top known as the deck. The core is made up from dow/polyethylene, arcel or, more recently, polypropylene.
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  • A cigarette dispenser mounted to an apartment block wall in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. The dirty wall and street pavement show a district in disrepair where immigration and a non-German population is high. Unlike in Britain, tobacco and cigarettes can be bought unregulated by anyone - even children - on the street. Brands such as Marlboro, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Cabinet can be chosen by pushing a selection button.
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  • The reaching hands of ex-South African President Nelson Mandela's statue seemingly grasp the Big Ben clock tower in Parliament Square, Westminster, central London. On the day of the British general election where a hung parliament is a possibility, the fight for power of the nation appears to be an historic possibility.
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  • Christchurch United Reform Church, East Dulwich that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day.
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  • Mothers and their children exit Herne Hill Baptist Church, Herne Hill SE24 that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day.
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  • A mother pushes her child into St. Saviour's Church, Herne Hill SE24 in south London that serves as a temporary Polling station for voters on Britain's general election day.
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  • Chen Qianlei is 40 and runs a consulting business for foreign traders. His wife, Gou Xia, also 40 works for a news agency as an arts reporter. They live in Beijing with their seven-year old son, Chen Dingqi who is in grade two at primary school. Xia says she would have liked another child and could have afforded to pay the fine but because she works for a government organization, she would have been automatically fired. Qianlei is helping his son with his homework...Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
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  • Wang Ying Chen, 7, at her calligraphy school in Beijing. Ying Chen is a gifted calligraphist and artist...Gao Wen Hong, 41, is CEO of a cosmetics company. Her husband, Wang Wei, also 41, is the director. They have one daughter, Wang YingChen, 7 who is top of the class at her primary school which has the best results in Beijing. Wen Hong says she prefers to have only one child so she can put all her resources into her. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
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  • Chen Qianlei is 40 and runs a consulting business for foreign traders. His wife, Gou Xia, also 40 works for a news agency as an arts reporter. They live in Beijing with their seven-year old son, Chen Dingqi who is in grade two at primary school. Xia says she would have liked another child and could have afforded to pay the fine but because she works for a government organization, she would have been automatically fired. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_56_1.jpg
  • Zeng Shao Lin, 43, a housewife and her husband, Yang Wei Jun, 42 a driver for a Hong Kong company have a son, Yang Heng who is 12 and at junior school. They live in Shenzhen. Shao Lin suffers from depression and feels this is because she and her husband were unable to afford the fine (around £32,000 - the equivalent of several years salary) they would have had to pay to have another child. . Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_57_1.jpg
  • Chen Qianlei is 40 and runs a consulting business for foreign traders. His wife, Gou Xia, also 40 works for a news agency as an arts reporter. They live in Beijing with their seven-year old son, Chen Dingqi who is in grade two at primary school. Xia says she would have liked another child and could have afforded to pay the fine but because she works for a government organization, she would have been automatically fired. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_55_1.jpg
  • Wei Fengxiu, 28 a farmer lives with her husband (also a farmer) their son, Canxuefeng, two and her parents-in-law in Yan Chun village, Guangxi province, where there they are pictured here. Many women in China go to live with their in-laws when they get married but Wei says many of her friends have problems getting on with their mother-in-law and thinks this is down to the one child policy: pampered only sons and their new wives cause friction...Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_53_1.jpg
  • Wan Yuanxiu, 39 is a farmer. She lives with her son, Xi Chuanjun, 6 in Guangxi province. Her husband is a removal man in the city and only comes home a few times a year. She has another son, now 20, from her first husband who died nine years ago and is now sterilsied. In some provinces, after a woman has had a child, and certainly more than one, she will often be summoned to a clinic to be sterilized by the authorities. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
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  • Huang Jen, a soldier, 24 and his wife Ha Ping, also 24 have a daughter Huang She, 2. They are pictured here on the banks of the River Li, in Fulli Town Village, Guangxi province. Because they had a girl first and live in the countryside, they will be able to try for another baby when their daughter is two...Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
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  • Zhou Chun Ying 60 is retired. She looks after her grand-daughter Han Lin, 2 in Quixa, Shandong province whilst her parents work in the factories 70 km away. Yan Wei ( Ying's son)  works in a chemical factory whilst her mother, Lin Chun Mei, the daughter-in-law works in a factory producing medical curtains. Despite the policy, there are still too many people and not enough jobs in China which means couples often have to work away and children are looked after by their grandparents. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_41_1.jpg
  • Zhou Chun Ying 60 is retired. She looks after her grand-daughter Han Lin, 2 in Quixa, Shandong province whilst her parents work in the factories 70 km away. Yan Wei ( Ying's son)  works in a chemical factory whilst her mother, Lin Chun Mei, the daughter-in-law works in a factory producing medical curtains. Despite the policy, there are still too many people and not enough jobs in China which means couples often have to work away and children are looked after by their grandparents. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_40_1.jpg
  • Shu Tia Chen, 32 an accountant and her husband, Gan Yafei, 33 a project manager for IBN and their son, Gan Muze, 3, They live in  in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. ?People who have more than one child don't care about their jobs. We know people in the West think the one child policy is an abuse of human rights? says Yafei  ?but in developing countries there are more important things to worry about- like putting food on the table."..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly. .
    china_onechild_34_1.jpg
  • Gao Wen Hong, 41, is CEO of a cosmetics company. Her husband, Wang Wei, also 41, is the director. They have one daughter, Wang YingChen, 7 who is top of the class at her primary school which has the best results in Beijing. Wen Hong says she prefers to have only one child so she can put all her resources into her. ..Its over thirty years (1978) since the Mao's Chinese government brought in the One Child Policy in a bid to control the world's biggest, growing population. It has been successful, in controlling growth, but has led to other problems. E.G. a gender in-balance with a projected 30 million to many boys babies; Labour shortages and a lack of care for the elderly.
    china_onechild_26_1.jpg
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