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  • Beyond Chinese TV media images, a red sun sinks behind late cloud in the west, a glowing red sky illuminates Hong Kong's harbour, this scene is symbolic of the decline of empire, the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) two years after this picture was taken, often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From this famous ferry terminal that protrudes out into the busy waters of this colony’s harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood in the days before China ceded its territory to the British for 155 years until the 1997 deadline.
    star_ferry07-31-1997_1_1.jpg
  • The design on the side of an HGV for the rehearsal studio company Fly By Nite and a passing cyclist in Great Marlborough Street, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    transport_truck-08-05-03-2019.jpg
  • While still a British colony, a 1990s market shallholder drags a load of vegetable items in baskets in the New Territories, on 21st April 1995, in Hong Kong, China.
    hong_kong_market-21-04-1995.jpg
  • Newspaper delivery men unload a van of Evening Standard first editions onto trolleys for distribution in the Bank area in the City of London, the capitals financial district, 7th March 2018, in London England.
    newspapers-01-06-03-2018.jpg
  • A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 crosses the perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport on its way to an international destination. Seen from below, the passing Jumbo takes-off and climbs under full take-off power over the surrounding airfield security fence. Its razor-wire is an effective deterrent against protesters or terrorists and symbolises the lengths that airport authorities (in this case BAA) need go to to ensure their property is safe. The aircraft is seen almost entangled in the secure wire as if passing through the mesh. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1053-11-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A DHL courier van makes a delivery and is parked in a side street in the City of London. Its yellow and red corporate branding is on the side of this small truck in Lombard Street, a narrow but very old medieval thoroughfare in the heart of London's oldest (financial) quarter where banks and insurance companies have their offices. DHL is a global market leader in the logistics industry and logistics company for the world. On the side of the van we see the words Express and Logistics with a high arch of an office address.
    dhl_city01-24-05-2012_1.jpg
  • Copies of newspapers showing yesterday's news, and a government's ad warning that time is running out for businesses who should be preparing for a UK Brexit on 1st January 2021, discarded on a bench outside the Bank of England in the City of London, the capital's financial district, during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 20th October 2020, in London, England. The capital is designated by the government as a Tier 2 restriction.
    newspaper_bench07-20-10-2020.jpg
  • A bike courier squeezes past a black Mercedes in a narrow lane in the City of London, the capitals financial district, founded by the Romans and whose small lanes still date from medieval times, before the Great Fire of London in 1666, on 4th February 2020, in the City of London, England.
    narrow_lane-02-04-02-2020.jpg
  • The graphic showing a person delivering a package, on the side of a couriers van, passing beneath corporate offices in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 4th February 2020, in London, England. A man wearing a peaked cap is shown carrying a box with a large arrow pointing upwards to nearby offices.
    city_courier-02-04-02-2020.jpg
  • Anti -EU protesters outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
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  • Anti -EU protesters outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Anti -EU protesters outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Anti -EU protesters outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Anti -EU banner outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Pro-EU and leave banners outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Pro-EU protesters outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Pro-EU protester campaigner Steve Bray speaks with a journalist outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Ian Murray, Labour Mp speaking to media outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Pro-EU and leave banners outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Satirical artist Kaya Mar with his latest take on the government, outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Pro-EU protesters outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • An inflated Happy Birthday helium balloon along with bouquets of fresh flowers in the rear of a van making multiple deliveries around the capital, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
    flowers_van-01-05-06-2019.jpg
  • While delivery man take a shipment of boxes to a local address, a workman peers under the pavement during a maintenance job in Carnaby Street, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
    west_end-03-05-06-2019.jpg
  • An Amazon Pantry delivery trolley is manoeuvred backwards through the door of offices in Aldwych in east London, on 1st April, 2019, in London England.
    amazon_delivery-01-01-04-2019.jpg
  • A delivery man struggles with a load of boxes and packages on a West End, on 4th March 2019, in London England.
    westend_people-01-04-03-2019.jpg
  • The design on the side of an HGV for the rehearsal studio company Fly By Nite and a passing taxi cab in Great Marlborough Street, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    transport_truck-09-05-03-2019.jpg
  • The design on the side of an HGV for the rehearsal studio company Fly By Nite and a Thames Water van in Great Marlborough Street, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    transport_truck-05-05-03-2019.jpg
  • A courier delivers boxes and walks past a construction hoarding of a watch outside the new Richard Mille shop in New Bond Street, on 25th February 2019, in London, England.
    watch_time-14-25-02-2019.jpg
  • A man walks his bike past a construction hoarding of a watch outside the new Richard Mille shop in New Bond Street, on 25th February 2019, in London, England.
    watch_time-13-25-02-2019.jpg
  • A delivery of large generic cardboard boxes in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 24th July 2018, in London, England.
    city_box-01-24-07-2018.jpg
  • The flooring of a Qatar Airlines 747-800 Cargo aircraft on display at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-65-16-07-2018.jpg
  • The flooring of a Qatar Airlines 747-800 Cargo aircraft on display at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-62-16-07-2018.jpg
  • The flooring of a Qatar Airlines 747-800 Cargo aircraft on display at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-64-16-07-2018.jpg
  • A Deliveroo rider cycles past large concrete blocks, part of a construction site on the corner of Brook and New Bond Streets, on 6th April 2018, in London, England.
    brook_street-02-06-04-2018.jpg
  • A UPS courier pushes a pile of boxes on a trolley to a nearby address in Shoreditch, 7th March 2018, in east London England.
    hoxton_deliveries-01-06-03-2018.jpg
  • Delivery men organise Apple Mac screens in the street, on 27th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_people-06-27-10-2017.jpg
  • Delivery man carries the last sheet of plyboard for local construction project. Carrying the boards from a waiting white van to a pile of similars in this City of London street, the unseen person wears protective plastic shoe covers that helps preserve the office floors nearby. In the background are Londoners on this City of London street pavement in the heart of the capital's financial district. Ongoing works are happening all over the City as improvements continue and improve the working environment for office workers.
    carrying_plywood01-19-02-2014.jpg
  • Destined for nearby offices, two workmen deliver a heavy piece of corporate art taped up and covered in a narrow side street in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Each manhandling a corner and sharing the weight of this awkward company asset. Taped up for protection and handled carefully, the men make their way along a narrow medieval street called Tokenhouse Yard. This street dates from Charles I and was where farthing tokens were coined. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    workmen_delivery01-12-03-2013_1_1.jpg
  • Meat porters drag old carts laden with freshly-butchered meat in Smithfield market. One man’s coat reveals blood stains and one calls to the other as they walk. Meat has been bought and sold at Smithfield for over 800 years, making it one of the oldest markets in London. A livestock market occupied the site as early as the 10th century. Approximately 120,000 tons of produce pass through the market each year. As well as meat and poultry, products such as cheese, pies, and other delicatessen goods are available. Buyers including butchers, restaurateurs and caterers are able see the goods for themselves and drive away with what they have bought. Bargaining between buyers and sellers at Smithfield sets the guidelines for meat and poultry prices throughout the UK.
    smithfield_butchers-16-04-1994_1_1.jpg
  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather at the stroke of midnight beneath umbrellas to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From the on the roof of Ocean Terminal shopping mall, the skyline is filled with fireworks but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering behind the viewer on the top floor of the building which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • Londoners have their umbrellas turned inside out or dash through seasonal rain showers and wind gusts in central London. In the foreground, a businessman runs into a strong wind that has brought a brief spell of bad weather into the capital's streets, catching out those with fragile brolleys or those without all-weather layers. The scene is in Cannon Street in the heart of London's financial centre and oldest historical part of the former Roman walled city dating from the first century.
    rain_city02-18-04-2013.jpg
  • Below the flooring of economy class, a cargo handler manhandles a container of air freight into position in the hold of a Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A340 that is about to depart from Male, the capital of the Republic of the Maldives  to Colombo. Inside the aluminium box is fresh tuna fish, freshly caught in the Indian Ocean and bound for the supermarkets of the EU and in particular, the UK whose insatiable appetite for fresh, perishable and sustainable foodstuffs make this fast and efficient form of transport important to speedy delivery. Every square inch is accounted for but as well as passengers' baggage, the cramped spaces beneath this modern airliner store loaded revenue-rich cargo though specially-pressurised and heated compartments accommodate live animals.
    maldives436-15-11-2007.jpg
  • One a hot November night, a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - is bathed in high-intensity floodlights on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Surrounded by passenger steps, servicing vehicles for catering and the loading of baggage and air freight in the below-floor holds, the aircraft is readied for its next flight to Colombo, another journey for this aircraft as it travels across the world's air routes.
    maldives434-15-11-2007.jpg
  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
    maldives01-10-11-2007.jpg
  • A Post Office employee hauls a cart full of post onto the station platform on the Mail Rail system. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003. It ran east–west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km). It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
    mail_rail-16-03-1993.jpg
  • A family just arrived from Chennai (India) drags heavy suitcases from the carousel 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).
    heathrow_airport1533-19-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on airline passengers awaiting the arrival of their baggage 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).
    heathrow_airport1527-19-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A British Airways baggage handler scans the bar code of his airline passenger's item of luggage before loading it into the aircraft hold container bins. 50-70,000 pieces of BA 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 at Heathrow Airport. 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).
    heathrow_airport1200-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • 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 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. 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).
    heathrow_airport1187-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • 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 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. 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).
    heathrow_airport1184-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through these 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 at Heathrow Airport. 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. There are four colour codes: Yellow for out-of-gauge (oversized, like golf clubs); dark blue for not x-rayed; light blue for transfer and red, meaning the item has been subjected to 12 seconds of x-ray scanning. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1177-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A lady concentrates in a cluttered office unit beneath corporate artwork in Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed building. The oval-shaped picture depicts an esasperated-looking female rolling her eyes to the ceiling while her contemporary below stares down at her laptop surrounded by the paraphernalia of her accounting London job. Dressed in an open-neck shirt and wearing glasses, the woman at work is busy and preoccupied with the job in hand of auditing a company's accounts. Despite all the 385,000 square feet in the European headquarters on the River Thames, there is no spare space in this tiny office that she shares with another employee. The Fine Art has been supplied by Anderson O'Day and E & Y have invested in 500,000 Pounds of office art for their 114,000 employees in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
    ernst+young249-09-08-2007_1.jpg
  • A 17 year-old girl studying the British A-Level Textiles qualificatio, makes her own garment using a family sewing machine. Carefully sewing and stiching the materials together to make her home-made clothing, she allows the needle to travel across the edges, mindful of keeping her fingers away from the shap point that moves fast.
    ella_sewing03-02-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A courier cyclist speeds through a gap between pedestrians in a narrow side street at the junction of King William Street in the City of London, the capital's Square Mile, and its financial heart. Two men to the left and a couple to the thright have crossed this narrow road, a trace of a medieval-era street that has survived the Great Fire of London. The cyclist leans slightly and looks to his right to guage oncoming traffic before zooming through and pedalling onwards.
    city_people06-05-07-2013_1_1.jpg
  • The £18.2m Millennium Bridge (a Thames crossing linking the City of London at St. Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside) was London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years and coincided with the Millennium, it was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as Synchronous Lateral Excitation. Here a surveyor stands with legs spread peering into a tripod-mounted theodolite to measure its 370 metres (1,214 ft) steel length.
    bridge_surveyor04-09-2000_1.jpg
  • A Bahraini  baggage-handler employed by SABTCO pauses during his shift at Bahrain International airport. Having loaded luggage he is also about to put a cargo of fresh fruits on the conveyor belt and into the hold of an Egyptair Airbus. A colleague walks up the ramp towards the fuselage before the freight goes in before its imminent departure for Cairo, across the Mediterranean. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the home for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements and is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first powered flight, 1903.
    bahrain_airpoirt03-21-04-2001_1.jpg
  • Anti -EU protesters outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Pro-EU and leave banners outside the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October, 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. The government await news from the EU granting another Brexit extension. Last night Prime Minister Boris Johnson 'paused' discussions on his EU withdrawal bill after MPs voted against the government rushing it through in three days, Speaker John Bercow described the bill as bill now being in limbo.
    CD 23-10-19 Withdrawal Agreement Lim...jpg
  • Two businessmen walks past a construction hoarding of a watch outside the new Richard Mille shop in New Bond Street, on 25th February 2019, in London, England.
    watch_time-06-25-02-2019.jpg
  • A BBC London 94.9 radio reporter, on location in Trafalgar Square after the unveiling of the Fourth Plinth artwork. The journalist looks into the distance, thinking about the report he is soon to make live on air during the current news item - the unveiling of the most recent artwork on the Fourth Plinth by German artist Hans Haacke. Holding the microphone and with other broadcast equipment resting on a ledge, he considers how best to describe the scene for London's radio audience. RAJAR data, the audience measurement system in the UK, showed that BBC London 94.9 audience reach for the second quarter in 2014 was 572,000.
    unveiling_gift_horse21-05-03-2015_1.jpg
  • Delivery man carries the last sheet of plyboard for local construction project. Carrying the boards from a waiting white van to a pile of similars in this City of London street, the unseen person wears protective plastic shoe covers that helps preserve the office floors nearby. In the background are Londoners on this City of London street pavement in the heart of the capital's financial district. Ongoing works are happening all over the City as improvements continue and improve the working environment for office workers.
    carrying_plywood01-19-02-2014.jpg
  • A middle-aged businessman looks up from paperwork during a working day in his 1970s Brussels office. The executive wearing a white shirt and tie pauses writing with a pencil to look over his glasses, past the In Tray and towards the viewer. There is no computer or electronic devices that describe this decade towards the end of the 20th century. The calendar shows us today's date of July 5th 1971. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family14-13-06-1971_1.jpg
  • A Securicor guard delivers a cash box to a City of London bank. Walking quickly to avoid delays in the street, the employee of this security company carries the secure box wearing protective helmet in case of an armed robbery - his most vulnerable body area being the head and neck. The box is padlocked and contains explosive dyes and loud alarms if forcefull opened. Securicor was originally founded by Edward Shortt, a former Liberal Cabinet Minister, in 1935 as Nightwatch Services: its guards rode bicycles and wore old police uniforms. However in 1939 it was taken over by Lord Willingdon and Henry Tiarks who developed it into a leading security business. It changed its name to Security Corps in 1951 then shortened to Securicor in 1953.
    securicor_cash-12-06-1993_1_1.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial walkway, we look down on a lady airline passenger being helped to pull her heavy suitacse from the carousel 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).
    heathrow_airport459-14-07-2009_1.jpg
  • West End theatres ramain closed, with musicals and other theatre shows on hold under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Theatreland has taken a big hit as social distancing has not allowed audiences to return and so doors and box offices are shut. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
    20200701_covid london theatre_001.jpg
  • Keep a safe distance sign on the Strand under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
    20200701_coronavirus safe distance_0...jpg
  • The Globe pub in Borough Market selling takeaway drinks to a queue of people who congregate outside under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Pubs have used this technique to remain in business to a degree while they are not allowed to open. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
    20200701_coronavirus pub_001.jpg
  • People sheltering from the rain in a very quiet Piccadilly Circus during a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
    20200701_coronavirus piccadilly_010.jpg
  • People sheltering from the rain outside the closed Criterion Theatre in a very quiet Piccadilly Circus during a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Face masks on Piccadilly under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Be safe, we are stronger together sign on Bond Street under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems. Bond Street is one of the principal streets in the West End shopping district and is very upmarket. It has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century. The rich and wealthy shop here mostly for high end fashion and jewellery.
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  • Bond Street under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems. Bond Street is one of the principal streets in the West End shopping district and is very upmarket. It has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century. The rich and wealthy shop here mostly for high end fashion and jewellery.
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  • We miss you sign outside the Young Vic Theatre under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Rainbow for the NHS and key workers on the street under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Statue of George Washington in a very quiet Trafalgar Square after a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Social distancing signs on Bond Street under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Scenes of a very quiet Piccadilly Circus after a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Scenes of a very quiet Piccadilly Circus after a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • People sheltering from the rain outside the closed Criterion Theatre in a very quiet Piccadilly Circus during a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
    20200701_coronavirus piccadilly_012.jpg
  • People sheltering from the rain in a very quiet Piccadilly Circus during a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
    20200701_coronavirus piccadilly_011.jpg
  • People sheltering from the rain outside the closed Criterion Theatre in a very quiet Piccadilly Circus during a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Police patrol a very quiet Piccadilly Circus during a rain shower under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Evening Standard newspaper headline reads London Lockdown strategy is hit by confusion under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • View along Fleet Street towards the City of London and St Pauls Cathedral is incredibly quiet still under coronavirus lockdown on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Face masks under coronavirus lockdown on Fleet Street on 1st July 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Leadenhall Market in the City of London remains deserted due to lockdown as a result of the Coronavirus Pandemic on 1st July 2020 in London, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the central London remains very quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Masks of various World leaders wearing face masks and sunglasses including North Korean premier Kim Jong-un, as some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
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  • As some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
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  • As some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers wearing face masks return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
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  • Thank you for brightening my day sign in the window of Selfridges as some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
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  • As some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
    20200626_covid oxford street_015.jpg
  • As some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
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  • Oxford Circus undergroud station entrance as some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
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  • West End theatres ramain closed, with musicals and other theatre shows, like the incredibly popular Les Miserables at the Sondheim Theatre, on hold under coronavirus lockdown on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Theatreland has taken a big hit as social distancing has not allowed audiences to return and so doors and box offices are shut. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Social distancing sign outside the Royal Academy under coronavirus lockdown on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Piccadilly Circus remains very quiet under coronavirus lockdown, with the famous advertising screens half filled with Covid-19 related adverts sponsored by various companies and orginisations on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Gerrard Street in Chinatown remains very quiet with a few people visiting Chinese restaurants to pick up food and to see the red lanterns on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Trying to earn some money from tourists dressed up as a Giant Panda on the corner of Gerrard Street in Chinatown which remains very quiet with a few people visiting Chinese restaurants to pick up food and to see the red lanterns on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • Trying to earn some money from tourists dressed up as a Giant Panda on the corner of Gerrard Street in Chinatown which remains very quiet with a few people visiting Chinese restaurants to pick up food and to see the red lanterns on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
    20200626_covid chinatown panda_003.jpg
  • TfL Transport for London advertising boards advise people that precautions are being taken and buses cleaned with antiviral disinfectant each day as some non-essential shops re-open, shoppers return to Oxford Street while social distancing measures are put in place by the various retail shops which are open on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, apart from this popular shopping district, which itself has far fewer people on its pavements than normal.
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